From Orange To Green

Add 6-foot-5, 255-pound Orange County lineman Daniel Jamokha of Western High School in Anaheim, Calif., to the list of confirmed Dartmouth recruits for next fall. Jamokha's commitment to the Big Green was reported in the OC Varsity blog, an arm of the Orange County Register. From the post:

Second-team All-County offensive lineman Daniel Jamokha (6-5, 255) of Western has committed to Dartmouth, Pioneers football coach Toby Howell said in an e-mail Friday. The Big Green could certainly use a talent such as Jamokha. They were 0-10 last season, 0-7 in the Ivy League.

The Big Green also feature former Mater Dei offensive lineman Kyle Cook (6-5, 260), who was a solid player for the Monarchs in 2007. Dartmouth is rebuilding the right way - in the trenches.

OC Varsity notes that Jamokha was the Orange League Lineman of the Year. He was key cog for Western (9-3) as it won the Orange League title and was nominated for the July 10 Brea Lions Orange County North-South Prep All-Star Football Game. Find a head shot and a basketball picture of Jamokha here and a blowup of the hoops photo here.

Opening-game foe Colgate kicked off spring practice Saturday and there's a report on the football website. In his typical, taciturn style, coach Dick Biddle said of the practice: "The team has a long way to go, however we will get there."

Former Dartmouth assistant coach Pete Lembo apparently has a neat way of injecting some excitement into spring practices as head football coach at Elon. If I'm reading Pete's report right, each session (at least the first two) is sort of a "fantasy league" game against an opponent. From his first report:

Today's opponent was Davidson College. We will find out if we "won" after the staff grades the video early tomorrow morning. I am already looking forward to Wednesday's practice as we take on the Blue Hose of Presbyterian.

FootballScoop doesn't often get the jump us when it comes to Dartmouth football, but they did this time. Although the site was a little slow on the front end of this report (a departure), it's out front on a possible hire. From the Scoop:

Dartmouth College: Our sources tell us offensive line coach Cyril Brockmeier has resigned his post to accept a high school coaching position in south Florida. We hear head coach Buddy Teevens could be close to hiring former Yale offensive line coach Keith Clark.

Three Ivy League papers have stories on admissions today with Brown and Harvard reporting record selectivity this year. From the Brown Daily Herald:

Months of nerves and anticipation will finally come to an end today for 22,645 regular decision applicants to the University, who can go online to view their decisions at 5 p.m. Eastern.

Of the total 24,988 applicants - including both early and regular decision - 2,708 will be admitted. According to Miller, the Office of Admissions sent out acceptance letters to 10.8 percent of applicants, while 13.3 percent were admitted last year.

From the Harvard Crimson:

This afternoon, a record-low 7 percent of Harvard College applicants will receive e-mails welcoming them into the incoming freshman class.

The rate at Penn this year was 17.11 percent overall. From the Daily Pennsylvanian:

This afternoon, 3,926 high-school seniors will receive exciting news as they read their Penn acceptance letters online. Penn accepted the nearly 4,000 students out of a pool of 22,939 applicants - an overall admit rate of 17.11 percent for the class of 2013.

Nothing so far in the Daily Dartmouth or other school papers. Remember, while players, their families and their high school coaches have been absolutely free to share news of their intent with their local paper, TV show, favorite blog (hint ;-) or anyone else, Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens can't comment on the class until all the paperwork has been received. Last year that was toward the end of spring practice.