Meet The Freshmen – THEIR Freshmen

Two of Dartmouth's non-league opponents have released bios of their incoming freshman classes. Find Colgate's class here and the Holy Cross class here. Of interest: Colgate has four kickers listed while Holy Cross has six running backs on its list.

Penn football held its Iron Quaker weightlifting competition with offensive lineman Eric Jett the big winner.

UNH will be without a receiver expected to play a big role on the team next year after sophomore Terrance Fox was suspended for failing a random drug test on Feb. 12. From Seacoastonline:

“Terrible, terrible mistake he made,” said (UNH coach Sean) McDonnell, who cited confidentiality issues when asked what Fox tested positive for. “He didn’t confirm what he needed to confirm with our sports medicine people about the substance he was taking.”

Also from Seacoastonline:

The 5-foot-9 Fox was the Wildcats’ third-leading receiver as a sophomore, catching 36 passes for 490 yards and four touchdowns. With the graduation of leading receiver Mike Boyle, he figured to play a bigger role in the offense. The ‘Cats averaged 35.6 points and 404 yards a game last year.

The Will Scott story has been written before and likely will be written again if the Louisville basketball team goes deep into the NCAA Tournament. Scott, you may remember, transferred from Cornell to Louisville where he's played in 77 games and done the kind of work in the classroom that has earned him the opportunity to go to Oxford to work on an advanced degree in Chinese studies. What's surprising is this line in a USA Today story about Scott:

From New York high schooler with two parents for doctors ... then an Ivy League scholarship to Cornell ... then a transfer as a walk-on to the basketball holy land of Louisville ... and soon to a place in England where they don't care what your RPI is.

The story doesn't say basketball scholarship, but it might as well because that's how I suspect most people will read it. If the writer didn't know the Ivy League has no athletic scholarships, he should. If he knew there are no athletic scholarships in the Ivies and structured the sentence the way he did for dramatic effect, that's worse.