Should have mentioned this the other day but the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges 2010 ranks Dartmouth No. 1 nationally for Undergraduate Teaching at National Universities.
The Top 10 (plus ties):
1. Dartmouth
2. Princeton
3. Yale
T-4. Stanford
T-4. Maryland-Baltimore County
T-6. Brown
T-6. William and Mary
T-8. Duke
T-8. Miami U (Ohio)
T-8. Notre Dame
Green Alert Take: Do you think UMBC is going to get some mileage out of that?
The Eagle Tribune in Massachusetts has a blurb about, "former Methuen High and Dartmouth quarterback Sean Furey," currently standing in 11th place (he needs to be top 12 to make the finals) in the javelin at the World Championships in Berlin. Furey '04 was a jayvee signalcaller for the Big Green before, obviously, making the right choice and concentrating on track. There's a photo here. (Former Dartmouth defensive lineman and Olympic silver medalist Adam Nelson '97 was fifth in the shot last week. Link)
The College Sporting News has named its 2009 preseason All-Americans. No fewer than 166 players were mentioned. Here's a list of those players on the list Dartmouth will face this fall:
FIRST TEAM
TE - Scott Sicko, New Hampshire
K - Andrew Samson, Penn
SECOND TEAM
Returns - Austin Knowlin, Columbia
THIRD TEAM
OT - James Williams, Harvard
DB - Chris Wynn, Penn
DB - Ryan Hinds, New Hampshire
HONORABLE MENTION
QB - Dominic Randolph, Holy Cross
RB - Jordan Culbreath, Princeton
AP - Buddy Farnham, Brown
WR - Matt Luft
C - Alex Spisak, Harvard
OG - Matt Schaefer, Penn
OT - Aaron Jones, Holy Cross
OT - Paul Jasinowski, Brown
DE - James Develin, Brown
DT - Brenton Bryant, Harvard
DT - David Howard, Brown
DT - Joe Goniprow, Penn
DB - Dino Vasso, New Hampshire
And don't ask me what AP is, although I think it might be Athletic Player? Editor's Note: A regular reader obviously much smarter than I am solved the mystery: All Purpose.
Also on the First Team: Jared Turcotte, the Maine fullback who originally hoped to go to Dartmouth.
Yale coach Tom Williams is the first Ivy League football coach I've heard is on Twitter. Find his musings here. Not sure about others but I know Cornell basketball coach Steve Donahue is on Twitter and there's a Twitter account out of the Penn men's basketball coaching office as well. There's also a Twitter account for Dartmouth athletics.
Former Harvard quarterback Chris Pizzotti has been resigned by the New York Jets, who cut him last week. Former Brown receiver Paul Raymond, cut at the same time by the Jets, has been claimed off waivers by the Cleveland Browns.
And finally, Dartmouth has its first preseason session in four days.
Penn State? Today is the Nittany Lions' final day of preseason camp according to a Jay Paterno Tweet. Speaking of PSU, Paterno also offered congratulations to the Nittany Lions' 1-0 season-opening win in women's soccer over Virginia. Two things of note:
1) Holy cow, the fall college sports season has begun, and ...
2) the head coaches of both teams used to be head coaches at Dartmouth. Erica Walsh is the PSU coach while Steve Swanson is the UVa coach.
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