Record Watching

Here's the view from Moose Mountain this morning. While it was clear up here headlights were needed driving in town as the fog rose up from the Connecticut River. Vermont's Green Mountains are in the background. On exceptionally clear days a shadow of New York's Adirondacks can be seen according to longtime neighbors. (Click to supersize.)

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Updated receiving records on the Dartmouth football website show junior Timmy McManus climbing his way up the Big Green ranks in several categories. McManus is:

• 5th all-time for single-season catches with 60. (Jay Barnard '04 , 83.)
• 11th career receptions with 88. (Barnard, 216)
• 16th in season receiving yards with 637. (John Hyland '94, 1,076)
• 16th in career receiving yards at 1,022. (Craig Morton '89, 2,605).

Senior quarterback Alex Jenny also made it into the record books at:

• 11th for single-game passing yards at 343 vs. Colgate. (Jay Fiedler '94, 419 vs. Yale)
• 19th career passing yardage at 1,793 yards. (Fielder, 6,684)

(Note: Just one spot and 15 yards ahead of Jenny on the list: Buddy Teevens)

Also making the record book after last season was tailback Milan Williams '09:

• 17th for career rushing at 1,320 yards (Al Rosier '91, 2,252)

Team records broken or tied last fall were:

• Most losses, one season, 10
• Most opponent first downs rushing in a game, 23 (ties Navy '86)
• Most opponent rushing touchdowns, 28
• Highest opponent passing percentage game, .838 (Cornell 26-31)
• Highest opponent passing percentage season, .676 (184-272)
• Most yards allowed season, 4,517 (2,310 rush, 2207 pass)
• Highest opponent punting average, 39.5

A 6-foot-5, 315-pound Massachusetts lineman received interest from Dartmouth before making a verbal commitment to play at Boston College according to this Eagle Tribune story.

Fordham's decision to start awarding football scholarships could have a domino effect in the Patriot League, which will bear close watching by the Ivy League. Fordham coach Tom Massella discusses the decision on the Fordham SportsNet site.

The Hartford Courant has a nice story about Dartmouth alum Brad Ausmus, who is now ninth all-time in games by a major league catcher. Ausmus, 40, who is serving as a backup for the Los Angeles Dodgers could have a future as a manager according to a story that begins this way:

You can't fit the profile any better. Brad Ausmus is a longtime major league catcher, a player's player, and he has the ability to laugh at himself.

When measuring managerial timber, those qualities are considered an asset. And he's Ivy League educated, something bound to catch the eye of baseball's new-age GMs.

The story also includes this note:

Drafted by the Yankees in 1987, Ausmus signed only after it was arranged for him to attend Dartmouth in the offseason, and he graduated in 1991.