Punter Scullin A Sports Network All-American

Dartmouth punter Brian Scullin, who helped the Big Green finish first in the nation in net punting last fall, has been named an honorable mention All-America by The Sports Network. Scullin, a senior, averaged a career-high 40.84 yards per kick in his final season, 28th nationally.

Big Green opponents named to the Sports Network All-America Team were:

First Team
T Nick Hennessey Colgate

Second Team:
TE Scott Sicko New Hampshire
LB Bobby Abare Yale

Third Team:
T James Williams Harvard
DT Kyle Hawari Yale
CB Andrew Berry Harvard
CB Chris Wynn Penn
PK Andrew Samson Penn

Honorable Mention
QB Chris Pizzotti, Harvard; Dominic Randolph, Holy Cross.
RB Jordan Scott, Colgate
WR Michael Boyle, New Hampshire
(P Brian Scullin, Dartmouth)
PR Austin Knowlin, Columbia
DT Matt Curtis, Harvard

Named to second-team fullback was the one that got away: Jared Turcotte, the redshirt freshman at Maine who made no secret as a high school senior of his hope to come to Dartmouth.

I've been asked when the Dartmouth Green-White Game will be this spring and can report it is tentatively planned for May 2. That's 115 days away if you are counting ;-)

From the You Knew It Might Be Coming department, the Daily Dartmouth has run its first call for a change at the top after the Dartmouth football program went 0-10 last fall. A columnist in The D writes in part:

Either the admissions office should give the coaching staff the leverage it needs to field a competitive team, or Dartmouth should simply eliminate the team all together. The state of limbo in which the team currently resides benefits no one.

I can’t imagine attending a college without a football team, and it would be a shame to abandon Dartmouth’s longstanding tradition of Ivy League football. Thus I hope Dartmouth takes the former route. Dartmouth should fire Teevens, who, after four years, is now responsible for recruiting every player on his team yet still has achieved no success.

Yale is set to introduce Tom Williams as its new football coach today. The press conference will be at 2 p.m. I have just two words for the new coach if he wants to keep people who bleed blue happy: Beat Harvard.