"Our defensive line over-powered their offensive line, thus putting great pressure on their QB, so the ball was coming out pretty fast."Recruiting news and speculation will start to appear more frequently in the media in coming days but there's already an interesting note in the Benton County Daily Record. "Northwest Arkansas' News Source," reports that Malachi Blankenship, 6-foot-1, 185 quarterback from a "home-schooled" football team in Oklahoma, has been "offered by Dartmouth and is also being looked at by Air Force and Wofford."
Blankenship threw for almost 3,500 yards and 33 touchdowns this fall for the NOAH (Northeast Oklahoma Association of Homeschools) Jaguars. You can learn more about the team and hear from the QB in a video clip on this page prior to their appearance in the mythical "home school national championship" game. ... The Tulsa World reports that Blankenship completed 23-of-30 passes for 274 yards and a TD in that game, a 41-34 win over Dallas HSAA. (The story is in the fourth column from the left, under the photo.)
The Dartmouth Review has a sweet anecdote about the Dartmouth football team and college president John Sloan Dickey from the fall of 1982. From the column:
... (I)n 1982, after suffering a debilitating stroke that impaired his ability to communicate in the normal manner of speaking and writing, a retired Dickey attended an early-fall football practice at Dartmouth College with then-president David McLaughlin. At the end of practice, the entire team approached Dickey, who sat in his wheelchair, with a green blanket covering his lap. The team captain told the two presidents that he wanted to present them with a gift. At that point, the football team began singing “Men of Dartmouth.” McLaughlin recalls, “Mr. Dickey looked at me accusingly, but as the team broke into the singing of ‘Men of Dartmouth,’ he reached up, removed the well-used 1929 reunion cap that he was wearing, and with tears in his eyes, placed it over his heart.”And finally, I've received a number of emails and heard a few comments after last week running more pictures of Dartmouth's new baseball field along with this thought about the press box: "I'm no architect, but if I'm going to be honest, I'd have to say it's the only disappointment I have so far with the gorgeous park." While that was intended to be my opinion and my opinion only, I've been reminded that work around the grandstand is not yet done and that I may well feel differently when it is completed.
In the same way that children can be remarkably perceptive and honest, young adults and college students can intuitively know the makings of a good leader. The members of the football team, on that fall day in 1982, certainly knew a good leader when they saw him, and paid tribute accordingly.
To give you an idea of how it is supposed to look when it is done, here's the artist's rendition from the outside and from the field (click to supersize):
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