Spring Award Winners

This made it onto the regular site last night, but for the rest of you, here are the award winners announced at halftime of Saturday's Green-White scrimmage:

Most Improved Running Back: Matt Dornak
Most Improved Tight End: John Gallagher
Most Improved Offensive Lineman: Kyle Cook
Most Improved Wide Receiver: Garrett Babb
Most Improved Quarterback: Dan Rooney
Most Improved Special Teams: Matt Kelly
Most Improved Defensive Lineman: Connor Phillips
Most Improved Linebacker: Royce Egeolu
Most Improved Defensive back: Robbie Krattiger

Weight Room honorees were ...
Offensive Lineman Ryan O’Neill
Linebacker Diego Fernandez-Soto
Wide receiver Tim Vanderet
Running back Nick Schwieger
Linebacker Royce Egeolu (team-record 650-pound squat)
Defensive end Charles Bay

Stubby Pearson ‘42 Award for character, leadership on campus, high academic standing and performance on the playing field ...
Timmy McManus

If I were handing out game balls after the spring game, they would go to tight end John Gallagher on offense and to defensive ends Charles Bay and Matt Oh on the other side of the line.

No word yet on the second BCS transfer heading to Yale, but one message board suggests it is a redshirt freshman offensive lineman from UCLA who was third on the depth chart at his position this spring.

News that Jack Kemp has died reminded me of my days as a cub reporter at the newspaper in Jeff Kemp's '81 final year as a Dartmouth quarterback. We'd put the Friday night paper to bed and then hustle up to the quonset hut that used to serve as the Lebanon Airport terminal in those days. It was a neat old building that had a Casablanca feel.

Anyway, while we'd be trying to connive the waitress into having the cook make us up something to eat well after the kitchen closed, we'd hear the hum of a plane engine and a minute or two later an unassuming Congressman Kemp would come through the door carrying his own bag. It always impressed me that he found a way in his busy schedule to get up to Hanover to support his son, who would eventually follow him into the NFL.

And finally, Dartmouth and Cornell will be playing what amounts to Ivy League championship games in baseball and softball today. Baseball is a Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park and it you are in the neighborhood, be sure to stop out. It should be a blast. If you do, check out the top corner of the third-base stands where members of the football team have been the baseball team's loudest supporters.