The Yale Daily news has a season preview for the Bulldogs here.
Like Dartmouth, Princeton gets its preseason camp going late. The Princeton Packet has a story here.
The Cornell Daily Sun has a quick piece on tailback Luke Siwula, a talented player who, like Dartmouth's Ian Wilson, caught a break when the NCAA changed its rule on medical redshirts. Both Wilson and Siwula played last year in three games, which under the previous NCAA rules would have prohibited petitioning for another season. When the NCAA upped the threshold to 30 percent of a team's games, it opened the door for the pair to return as fifth-year seniors – as long as the Ivy League gave them the green light.
Now, Siwula is a fine player and was one of the top running backs in the Ivy League before he was hurt. But this from the Sun story is probably overstating it:
Winning the team’s Mr. Offense Award as a junior, Siwula came into his senior season set to shatter all of the program’s rushing records.All of 'em? I'm thinking that fellow from Hill Street Blues will probably find his name mentioned in the Cornell record book somewhere ;-)
It hasn't been a real easy early season for opening-game opponent Colgate. First the Raiders got pounded by Big South novitiate Stony Brook. Now Colgate's second game at Coastal Carolina has been moved from Saturday to Sunday to avoid problems with Tropical Storm Hanna. (Colgate release)
And there's more out of Hamilton, N.Y. The Colgate depth chart has been posted on the school's game notes for Coastal Carolina and while All-America tailback Jordan Scott is back from a one-game suspension, starting quarterback Alex Relph does not appear on the chart. (The full release in PDF format can be found here.) Of Relph, the game notes say:
Colgate's starting quarterback Alex Relph will be sidelined indefinitelyI'm not sure what our friend The Optimist would say about that, but The Pessimist would suggest that another name for Sept. 20 on the calendar is, "indefinitely." We'll see. To be sure, Colgate has a real advantage playing three games before Dartmouth, but there is clearly a down side, and the potential for injury is it.
with an ankle injury suffered with 7:40 left in the first quarter against Stony
Brook.
Speaking of non-league quarterbacks Dartmouth will see this fall ... Seacoast Online has a nice story about UNH's RJ Toman, who will be at the controls Saturday when the Wildcats visit Army in search of their fourth FBS win in as many seasons. From the story:
"Toman's road to UNH began in high school, when he attended a camp at Boston College. UNH coaches saw him there, and former offensive coordinator Chip Kelly went out to look at him again when he was recruiting California and Mission Viejo was a regular stop on his tour.And finally, thanks to a regular (I hope) reader for pulling up something I never would have found. From a New York Times opinion piece:
"Even if you didn't take a kid from Mission Viejo, you always stopped by the school to see what (Bob Johnson) thought about other kids in the state," said Kelly.
Kelly came back raving, but McDonnell wasn't sold on a kid who wasn't even the best quarterback on his high school team as a junior.
"Chip was extremely excited about his athletic ability and his arm," said McDonnell. "I wanted to see tape. His senior year, we got a tape at midseason, and he looked good."
Seventy-two years ago, in his renomination acceptance speech at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia (before more than 100,000 people gathered in Franklin Field), Franklin D. Roosevelt rose above the boiler-plate rhetoric of political speeches and spoke of his generation’s “rendezvous with destiny.”Franklin Field, of course, is the home of the Penn football team. There will be somewhat fewer people there when the Quakers host Dartmouth in the Ivy League opener in Week 3 of the season.
There will be two stories today on Green Alert premium - one after each of the double sessions.
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