Doing The ChaCha With Dartmouth

Not being a cellphone or texting kind of person, I'm not sure I ever heard of ChaCha until reading a typically humorous Rick Reilly ESPN column online. Reilly writes:

ChaCha, as most people under 103 know, is the highly addictive mobile answer service that responds to any query you send (text "ChaCha" or "242242") with a real answer from a real person, usually within three minutes, for free.

Funny, I don't feel 104.

But I digress. After reading Reilly's column I decided to check out ChaCha, which can be accessed online. Turns out you can search through questions people have sent in. I thought it would be fun to type in "Dartmouth football" and see what comes up. Eleven questions have been asked that included the words Dartmouth and football. Here are some of them:

• Where Is the Yale/Dartmouth football game scheduled for next season?
• What are the stats for number 41 on dartmouth?
• Who is Kephart in regards to football?
  
• What are the names of the division 1 football schools that don't have university in their schools name?
• Where did FB Casey Cramer of the Miami Dolphins play college football? What is his jersey number in the Pros?

If you are curious about the answers, find them here.

UNH held its Blue-White scrimmage Saturday and the stars came out to shine – even if they weren't out for long. From the official UNH release:

Incumbent starting quarterback R.J. Toman (Mission Viejo, Calif.) completed 7 of 9 passes for 133 yards and one touchdown – a 61-yard strike to All-America tight end Scott Sicko (Stillwater, N.Y.) – in the University of New Hampshire’s annual spring Blue/White scrimmage Saturday afternoon.

Speaking of star-watching, the Seacoastonline website included this:

All three members of UNH's offensive Holy Trinity were on the sidelines for the game: former quarterback Ricky Santos, former wide receiver David Ball and current Oregon head coach Chip Kelly, the team's offensive coordinator in the Santos-Ball years.

I wonder if Kelly was offering ideas or borrowing them ;-)

Here's a curious one. Check out the Ohio State football roster and you'll find Don Matheney, a 6-foot, 307-pound junior defensive lineman from Lancaster, Ohio. Now check out the Holy Cross roster from a year ago and there's Don Matheney a 6-1, 315-pound defensive lineman from Lancaster, Ohio. They might not be exactly the same size, but they are the same fellow. Matheney, who had two tackles against the Big Green last fall, will be suiting up for the Buckeyes in 2009.

Dartmouth has had a few players transfer "up" over the years. The most prominent was defensive lineman Jared Kesler, who ended up having a nice career with a pretty good TCU team. There was a wide receiver who transferred to USC a while back for family reasons but I can't remember his name. Maybe you can.

Happy Mother's Day!