Here's where we were hiding out in our VW popup for the past couple of days. (Click to supersize)Welcome to August when we can finally say, "Dartmouth football practice starts later this month!"
Haven't seen anything on the Dartmouth site regarding the rescheduling of the two Dartmouth-New Hampshire football games that were originally contracted to be played next year and the following year, but the UNH site says the games will be played in
In these parts the harbinger of football is the annual Vermont-New Hampshire Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl pitting the top graduated high school seniors from the Twin States against each other at Dartmouth's Memorial Field in one of the oldest of such games in the country. This year will be the 56th renewal. Because Memorial Field's home stands were supposed to be torn down after last season and replaced by an entirely new grandstand and press box, plans were made to shift the game to Windsor (Vt.) High School, about a half-hour drive down I-91. Although the Memorial Field project was put on hold because of the economic downturn (Daily Dartmouth story) enough advance work had begun for using the temporary venue that the decision was made to play the game in Windsor anyway.
The Windsor field, which has permanent grandstands on just one side, has been expanded for the game with Dartmouth's portable end zone bleachers. According to a story in the Rutland Herald, "The Shrine's Dave Orr said 2,700 seats will be trucked in from Dartmouth, swelling the seating at Windsor to somewhere between 3,500 and 4,000. There will also be standing room." (This Rutland Herald preview has a picture of the stands in place.)
New Hampshire holds an overwhelming 40-13-2 lead in the series despite regular efforts by game officials to jury rig the player selection and rules to help level the playing field. Here's the lede from a Fosters.com story that pretty much tells the tale:
DOVER — It's only one game, and an exhibition at that. So why is winning it so important to three Seacoast football players?Starting at quarterback for New Hampshire is Andy Vailas. If the name sounds familiar to longtime followers of Dartmouth football, it should. As this Nashua Telegraph story reports, his father played and coached in the game and his uncle James Vailas, captained the '74 New Hampshire Shrine team before he "attended Dartmouth College where he captained the football team and was selected to the All-New England Team. The now Dr. Vailas was named the Alfred E. Watson Athlete of the Year in 1978."
"You don't want to be the team that lost to Vermont," said Matt Janetos.
Arm strength was never an issue for Sean Furey '04, who played a little junior varsity quarterback at Dartmouth. He showed that again when he qualified for the IAAF Track and Field World Championships by placing third at the U.S. Championships in Oregon. (Dartmouth report). For a year-old story about Furey that notes he was living in California with former Dartmouth wide receiver/decathlete Andrew Hall (he of "The Catch" fame), check out the Eagle-Tribune site.
Harvard has put a condensed football prospectus on its website. Missing is the usual narrative outlook about strengths and challenges faced by the 2009 Crimson.
Speaking of narrative outlooks about strengths and challenges, Cornell has posted exactly that on its website here.
And Holy Cross has posted an outlook on its new website, GoHolyCross.com
Columbia has taken the next step in the Internetization of sports information (say that three times fast) with the announcement that it is going to start providing information via Twitter and Facebook. (I'll take a look at what the school is doing with Twitter – click here to see for yourself – but I'm holding off on becoming a Facebook addict for as long as possible ;-)
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