The New Hampshire game notes for Saturday's contest against Dartmouth have been posted. Find an abbreviated version here and a full PDF of the notes here.
What jumps off the page is that UNH can tie the series for the first time since 1901 with a victory this weekend. Dartmouth won the first 16 games between the teams but New Hampshire has answered almost in kind, going 16-0-2 since 1979 and winning the last 10 meetings.
Dartmouth holds a 17-16-2 lead in the series, outscoring UNH, 760-704.
The all-time series results:
1901 Dartmouth 51-0
1907 Dartmouth 10-0
1916 Dartmouth 33-0
1917 Dartmouth 21-6
1921 Dartmouth 24-0
1932 Dartmouth 25-0
1934 Dartmouth 21-7
1956 Dartmouth 13-0
1957 Dartmouth 27-0
1960 Dartmouth 7-6
1961 Dartmouth 28-3
1964 Dartmouth 40-0
1965 Dartmouth 56-6
1968 Dartmouth 21-0
1969 Dartmouth 31-0
1972 Dartmouth 24-14
1973 UNH 10-9
1976 Dartmouth 24-13
1979 Tie 10-10
1980 UNH 24-7
1984 UNH 38-10
1985 UNH 23-7
1986 UNH 66-12
1987 UNH 41-3
1990 Tie 21-21
1992 UNH 45-27
1993 UNH 14-7
2000 UNH 42-21
2001 UNH 42-38
2002 UNH 29-26
2003 UNH 42-17
2004 UNH 45-24
2005 UNH 49-20
2006 UNH 56-14
2007 UNH 52-31
One of the players to keep an eye out for Saturday is speedy UNH tailback Chad Kackert, who is third in the nation in all-purpose running and 12th in rushing. He's the focus of this Concord Monitor story.
Curious what Colgate fans expected last Saturday out in Hamilton? It turns out they expected just about what they got, a 34-20 victory. Check out their surprisingly accurate predictions on a Colgate message board here.
The Daily Dartmouth has finally come online for the fall and has a story about the Colgate game. The Big Green contest with the Raiders also gets a brief mention in a Columbia Spectator roundup of the weekend.
I have to be careful with this one because I'm not a big fan of the Ivy League "scramble band" concept. To be sure, there's blame to share all the way around for what happened with the Princeton band when it traveled to The Citadel last weekend.
A column headlined, "Shame on the Princeton Band," in the Post and Courier in Charleston paper pinned the blame squarely on the Ivy Leaguers. It suggested that, "... instead of a tongue lashing, the entire Corps of Cadets should be given a medal for standing up for their school." And, the columnist wrote, "The Princeton Band, meanwhile, should be ashamed. All those pseudo-intellectuals and not a single brain among them."
Columnists can write pretty much what they believe. That's what columnist do. The shocker to me was finding that column reproduced on The Citadel's official football website.
This YouTube audio report is a radio interview with a member of the Princeton band.
There's a poll question and discussion on the Pioneer Football League fan board regarding whether the Ivy League should replace the departing Northeast Conference in the postseason Gridiron Classic that has pitted the champion of the PFL against the NEC champion. Interesting idea. Never happen. If an Ivy team is going to go on and play in the postseason, it's going to be in the NCAAs. Period.
It's probably no surprise that Colgate running back Jordan Scott was named a College Sporting News national all-star after running for 239 yards Saturday against Dartmouth. More surprising – but as you'll see perhaps not that surprising – is Brown defensive end James Develin being named national defensive player of the year by The Sports Network after anchoring a terrific Brown effort in a 17-7 win over Stony Brook. Develin had 3.5 tackles for loss (two sacks) and forced a fumble.
From the TSN release: "(James) Develin and his teammates held the Sea Wolves to 36 yards rushing and 147 yards of total offense."
At the Ivy League media day last month Brown coach Phil Estes told me, "You are going to look at me a little bit cross-eyed but I think defense would be the strength of our football team ..." And, "I've never coached a football team that is that big and that strong. I think if we keep those guys healthy people are going to have to pay attention to the defensive line ..."
There's still a long, long way to go, but one week in and Estes is sounding like the Prophet Phil. We'll learn more this week when the Bears play host to Harvard.
Sean Barker's Portal 31 Yale football blog (a supplement to his fine New Haven Register coverage of the team) reports that Bulldog safety Larry Abare "who was knocked out of the Georgetown game with a concussion, was examined on Sunday and Abare tested at nearly 100 percent on his baseline test, an examination used to clear any players with head injuries."
That's good news, but also a little scary in light of another New York Times story about concussions in football and other sports. The story says, "On Thursday, the center will announce that a fifth deceased N.F.L. player, the former Houston Oilers linebacker John Grimsley, was found to have brain damage commonly associated with boxers."
Dartmouth held its convocation yesterday. Find a story and pictures here. One of the speakers was Dr. Thomas Clark '92 (he still refers to himself as Tommy) founder of Grassroot Soccer, a pioneering effort to use what soccer folks like to call "the beautiful game," for AIDs education and prevention in Africa.
Tommy starred at Hanover High School before going on to play for his father, Bobby, at Dartmouth. He briefly considered a career in sportswriting, even writing a story or two for the newspaper when I worked there. I'd have to say he made the right career choice ;-)
Dartmouth announced yesterday that, "Jan and Trevor Rees-Jones, Class of 1973, of Dallas have committed $10 million for need-based scholarships, with first preference given to students with demonstrated need from Texas to attend the College." (link) Hmmm. Wonder if any of them might play a little football?
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