Draft Dodgers

Thanks to the New Haven Register's Portal 31 blog for saving me the headache of looking up this information on the NFL draft and the Ivy League:

For the second year in a row and just the third time since 1997, no Ivy Leaguers were taken in the NFL draft.

Dartmouth freshman Austen Fletcher's brother Alex, a center at Stanford, also was passed over in the draft.

The Harvard Crimson has a look at the Crimson-White scrimmage that includes coach Tim Murphy's interesting spin on spring games after his finished with a 42-14 score:

“We weren’t going one versus one. If it was one versus one, it could have been a pretty boring spring game. This was for recruits, this was for the scoreboard, this was for whatever fans we had up there.”

Another interesting comment from the Harvard mentor on his quarterback situation:

"It’s not going to be like it was the last two years, with such veteran quarterbacks, with Chris Pizzotti. On the other hand, both kids are more Liam-like in that they’re very athletic guys, they’re guys that can beat you with their feet.”

That would be Liam as in Liam O'Hagan. Gotta like that. "Liam-like."

Brown's Brown-White game ended 7-0 with the only score on an interception return, but before you opine that the other defending co-champion's offense is toast, consider what Brown sports info wrote: Last year's Brown-White game had the same final score on the same kind of touchdown.

Cornell's Red-White game is recapped by the Cornell Sun.

Kudos to Dartmouth baseball and softball for winning their divisions. While softball will travel to Ithaca to face a 40-win Cornell Juggernaut (the Big Green split with the Red earlier), the baseball team will be home to take on the winner of the Princeton-Cornell playoff. Find the baseball story from the Daily Dartmouth here.

The alcohol policy among individual Dartmouth teams is the subject of this Daily D story.

And finally, it was the '84 pop-top VW camper with the Penn State helmet perched above the windshield that got the photographer's attention at the annual Blue-White scrimmage at PSU Saturday. After she snapped a few pictures, she came back and asked if she could shoot a little video. If you check out the short clip at the end of this story, that's your trusty blogger sharing a quick thought about making the 1,000-mile, round trip to PSU for the fourth year in a row. (And yes, it took us 11 hours down, counting a stop for lunch, visits to every uphill, slow-vehicle lane we saw, and a loop down to visit Bucknell.)

Tonight on BGA premium, a full look at last Friday's first scrimmaging of the spring by the Big Green.