Wrapping It Up

2008 Ivy League Standings(click to enlarge)

The Daily Dartmouth has a story out of the Princeton game that includes this thought on the future from freshman corner Shawn Abuhoff:

“We need to hit the weight room, get stronger and mature. We have a very young team. We are very optimistic about next year.”

Abuhoff should be a strong candidate for the Ivy League rookie of the year after leading Dartmouth in interceptions (3), passes defended (8) and passes broken up (5), finishing sixth on the team with 43 tackles, leading the Big Green with a 30.8 kickoff return average (including a 94-yarder for a TD) and averaging a team-best 8.3 yards per punt return.

The Daily Princetonian's take on the game can be found here. Understandably there's little on the Dartmouth side of things.

As expected, two Dartmouth opponents are headed to the NCAAA playoffs. Colgate will play at Villanova and New Hampshire will visit Southern Illinois. Find the bracket here. Obviously no Ivy League team is going, but if I'm correct, Brown would have gotten the automatic bid by virtue of its win over co-champion Harvard when they played back on Sept. 27. Find a story on the UNH bid here.

No idea if this kid is going to try to play football but a Northfield (Minn.) high school lineman named Yujie Sun has an interest in Dartmouth according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. The paper says, "Along with playing both ways along the line, he trains as an Olympic-style weightlifter." From the story:

Sun is considering pre-med as a focus in college. His mother recently took a job with the FDA, so he said he'll likely join his family on the East Coast when he decides on a school.

"Maybe Dartmouth,'' he said. "I'm sure I'll find a good school out there.''

Kudos to Casey Cramer for scoring his first NFL touchdown yesterday for the Miami Dolphins. The former Dartmouth tight end caught a two-yard TD throw in the back of the end zone from Chad Pennington in a shootout loss to the New England Patriots. ...

I had a chance to see Anthony Gargiulo (and a number of other Big Green alums) at the Princeton game Saturday and to be sure, it was an interesting weekend for the former Dartmouth defensive end. First he watched the Big Green finish the first full winless season in school history. Then the Calgary Stampeders, the team he played for last year and would have been on this fall if not for a horrible injury, won the Grey Cup as champions of the CFL.