Dartmouth Is OK With Oklahoma Pair

Add Oklahoma high school teammates Danny Husband and Sam Clancy to the Dartmouth recruiting class as a posting on the Cascia Hall web page (scroll to bottom) confirms.

The 6-foot-3, 210-pound Husband was a key member of the Cascia Hall "Blue Swarm" defense while 6-5, 200 quarterback Clancy has been the trigger man for back-to-back state championship teams.

Husband was ranked No. 4 on the Tulsa World's Top 10 Defensive Linemen in the Metro Area List prior to last season. Here's what that story had to say about him:

Had a pivotal interception return in the 2A state title game last year and made a key block for a TD on the next play. Recorded 86 tackles and 13 sacks last season.

Cascia Hall (13-0) had two shutouts and eight games in which it held an opponent to one touchdown or less. The Commandos allowed just 9.1 points per game.

For a 2007 YouTube highlight video of Husband, click here.

Clancy was the subject of an Oklahoman story that began this way:

Cascia Hall football coach Joe Medina has his own nickname for his quarterback, Sam Clancy.

"I call him my Peyton Manning,” Medina said. "He's always wanted to be a quarterback, and he's been programmed to be a quarterback ever since he came to Cascia Hall in the sixth grade.”

Tulsa World statistics have Clancy completed 118-of-202 passes (58.4 percent) for 1,957 yards with 19 touchdowns and seven interceptions as Cascia Hall won the 3A championship this year. He completed 84-of-130 throws (64.6 percent) with 25 touchdowns and four interceptions last year on the team that won the 2A title.

For a YouTube highlight video of the pro style quarterback, click here.

Husband and Clancy have helped Cascia Hall win 28 consecutive games. For a TV news clip featuring a few highlights and a quick interview with Clancy in advance of the state championship game, click here.

Interestingly, Cascia Hall's trip to the state finals included a 13-10 semifinal win over previously unbeaten Tuttle, the alma mater of former Dartmouth captain Josh Dooley, who was at the game.

The Harvard Crimson has a story about what might be called the clustering of majors among athletes at the school and the lack of athletes studying anything in the sciences. From the story:

Harvard athletes in science, although existent, are a relative rarity. When looking at declared juniors and seniors, the football team has only five athletes combined in the sciences concentrations, which number over a dozen. In comparison, there are 23 members of their ranks in economics alone.

That sent me scurrying off to the 2008 Dartmouth media guide to see what it reveals. A total of 35 players have majors listed (with so many freshmen and sophomores on the roster there are a great many still "undeclared"). They break down this way:

• Economics: 8
• History, Religion/History: 8
• Psychology: 5
• Government: 4
• Geography: 2
• Computer Science: 2
• English: 2
• Enginerring Sciences: 1
• Environmental Students: 1
• Philosophy: 1
• Studio Art: 1

Football Scoop is reporting that two former Dartmouth defensive coordinators are the finalists to replace Jack Siedlecki at Yale. The site, which is generally pretty accurate, lists current head coaches Tom Gilmore (Holy Cross) and Don Brown (Massachusetts) as the final two. Brown was at Dartmouth in 1982 and again from 1984-86. He's a former Yale assistant. Gilmore was at Dartmouth from 1992-99.

The Sports Network has a listing of the status of the search process at the 25 Division I schools that made coaching changes this year. Yale is one of 11 schools that has not yet named a new coach.