If you haven't already, do check out the reaction of the eight Ivy League coaches to the annual media poll on the regular Green Alert site. No password is needed. ... Subscriber content posted yesterday were a story on what position the Ivy League coaches believe is hardest to recruit (defensive line, particularly inside) and the Brown season preview. On tap today: If they were told they would absolutely get either an 11th game or the OK into the NCAA playoffs but not both, which would the Ivy coaches pick? Also, the Columbia season preview.The Daily Dartmouth takes a look at speedy junior running back Rob Mitchelson, who ran for 230 yards last year playing largely behind Milan Williams. Mitchelson expects he and others in the Big Green's deep tailback corps will see a little more time this fall because of a shift in the offense. Mitchelson told the D:
"We’ve been switching it up recently, and it gets us a chance to get more running backs on the field. The spread system should be nice. After seeing how well it’s worked with other programs, it should be good for backs. We can get a chance to get out on the perimeter and catch some swing passes, and it also creates bigger holes to run through by spreading out the defense.”The New Hampshire football report concentrates more on high school football in the state and on UNH, but it occasionally has postings about Dartmouth. Click here for a look at a capsule report on the Ivy media poll and coach Buddy Teevens' reaction to it.
This is kind of fun. A 44-year-old writer from the Winston-Salem Journal went through a practice as a wide receiver for the Winston-State University football team. Find the story here.
For what it's worth, back when I was still at the newspaper, Dartmouth assistant field hockey coach Andy Smith thought it would be a fun story to dress me up in goalie garb and stick me in the cage to try to stop a few shots with the "swizzle stick," he developed. I wisely took a pass. Have you ever felt how hard one of those field hockey balls is?
And finally, the first day of double sessions at Hanover High passed without problem for that certain freshman-to-be who was debating football or golf. The hitting hasn't begun, of course, but he seems pleased with his decision. The junior-to-be, meanwhile, begins cross country next week although she went for a 6-mile run last night with her teammates and coach in what was officially termed a "community run."
Now a question. We will be heading to Yankee Stadium to pay our final respects to the House
that Ruth Built Sunday afternoon. I've never driven to the Stadium (we always took the train from the suburbs when I was a kid) and I'm not sure how I feel about doing it Sunday. Anyone from down that way have thoughts about parking at one of the close-in MetroNorth train stations and making a connection to the subway? It sounds simple enough. If we do that, we may drive our '84 VW camper down Saturday afternoon and try to find a place to camp within a reasonable drive of the train station, which would be fun.
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