Looking to order a gift for that favorite Dartmouth football fan, alum or student? Asgard Press is once again offering a Vintage Dartmouth Calendar. I have one of the 2008 calendars and, honestly, each page could be framed and hung on the wall. Here's an excerpt from the back cover that tells you more:
Time rushes by like the Connecticut River charging past Dartmouth College. Take a refreshing dip each day back into Big Green history with these twelve vintage images from Dartmouth football games gone by, featuring archival-quality reproductions of actual game-day program covers, printed on 100% recycled paper with soy inks. Each page is perforated, for easy removal and display in a standard 11 x 14 inch frame, so you can enjoy your favorites long after this season becomes history. “Glory to Dartmouth!”The calendars are $18.95. For a glimpse at each page or to find ordering information, click here.
(In the interest of full disclosure, the nice folks at Asgard will send me a few Shekels if you happen to order a calendar, but that's not my reason for posting. Believe me, the lunch I bought with the check I got last year should be proof enough. No, the reason I'm blogging this is these calendars really do make very nice gifts ;-)
Looking Ahead To Harvard
Harvard's release on Saturday's game at Dartmouth can be found here. ... A PDF of Harvard's full game notes can be found here. ... And if you'd like to hear Harvard coach Tim Murphy's recap of last week's Princeton game and other remarks, click here.
Harvard linebacker Eric Schultz won the New England Football Writers' Gold Helmet last week after making 16 tackles and the game-clinching sack in the Crimson's 24-20 win at Princeton. Schultz was a narrow, narrow choice over Brown's Bobby Sewall, who had another monster receiving game in a big win over Cornell.
For what it's worth, I know Schultz was a "narrow, narrow choice" because I was the selector last week and as I usually do, I agonized over the pick.
Easier was the choice in Division II-III of Williams running back Brian Morrissey, who had 42 carries for 201 yards, including the winning six-yard TD run in the fourth quarter of a rain-soaked, 14-7 win over Hamilton.
(Side note: The good thing about being the selector once each year is it gives me a great deal more patience when I disagree with the picks for Ivy this or Ivy that each week. It's a harder job than you would think.) Which leads quite naturally into this ...
Harvard's Andrew Berry and Yale's Casey Gerald have been named finalists for the 2008 National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame's Draddy Trophy, sort of the Heisman for football scholar-athletes. It's disappointing that Dartmouth linebacker Andrew Dete didn't advance to be one of the 15 finalists, but I understand. While Dete was absolutely deserving of moving on, Berry and Gerald are both terrific representatives of the Ivy League and the sense is the Draddy committee might be a little leery of over-representing the Ancient Eight.
Toda's daily ouch comes from the Daily Pennsylvanian Sports Blog:
The Penn-Brown football game this Saturday will be nationally televised on Versus as the Ivy League Game of the Week. And unlike last week’s fluff game between then-winless Columbia and still-winless Dartmouth, this game will actually be important.The Cornell Sun takes a little deeper look at Wacky Wednesday in Ithaca. (While I'm sure they'd gladly trade the tradition for a Satisfying Saturday, it sounds like fun.) From the story:
... (I)t allows for the players and coaches to smile despite a three-game skid.Former Dartmouth tight end Casey Cramer is back in action as a fullback with the Miami Dolphins. There were no guarantees he'd return after missing a couple of games with injury. The Palm Beach Post writes:
“We were trying to lighten up the mood. It didn’t work, we still lost,” Knowles paused and broke into a deep laughter. “But it was fun, we lightened up the mood a little bit.”
After missing the past two games with an ankle injury, Casey Cramer returned to practice this morning. He was joined by Lousaka Polite, who the team signed to fill in for Cramer.And the Post also has this, with a quote from Casey:
Given the new regime’s approach, it must really like Cramer for him to have weathered two weeks with an injury. Polite, who played under Bill Parcells in Dallas, has filled in admirably, picking up a first down on a three-yard run against the Bills.
Cramer avoids revolving door: Since he arrived early last month, fullback Casey Cramer has seen players come and go during the Dolphins' never-ending rebuilding process.A Notre Dame football blog called Rakes of Mallow (I had to Google that to understand why - guess I'm not that wordly) shares a little about Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt's days in Miami in anticipation of the Fighting Irish-Pittsburgh game. Of the quarterback situation Wannstedt faced with the Phins, the blogger writes:
"That revolving door got me in this place," said Cramer, who replaced Boomer Grigsby after Week 1. "I understand how things work."
In 2002, the Dolphins were led by Real American Hero Jay Fiedler most of the season, but a thumb injury following a very exciting Sunday night win in Denver started the Ray Lucas Era, a slide that will not soon be forgotten by Miami fans.I've heard of Dartmouth grad Fiedler being called a lot of things, but Real American Hero is a first for me.
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