Of Big Guys And Tweeting With Teevens

Two notes out of last night's freshman family get-together at a local restaurant:

1) The freshmen are as big as advertised. Hanover might want to consider a big-and-tall shop.

2) Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens is now on Twitter. You can find him at BTeevens.

This is the research you never want to have to do, but just two teams have ever gone from zero wins in the Ivy League one year to a winning Ivy League record the next:

Zero wins one year, four wins the next:
1959-1960 1958-59 Yale
2003-2004 Cornell

Zero wins one year, three wins the next:
1973-1974 Princeton, 1992-1993 Brown, 2002-2003 Columbia

Zero wins one year, two wins the next:
1962-1963 Brown, 1964-1965 Penn, 1967-1968 Columbia, 1975-1976 Cornell, 1987-1988 Columbia, 1988-1989 Brown, 2005-2006 Columbia, 2007-2008 Columbia

Zero wins one year, one win the next:
1966-1967 Brown, 1968-1969 Brown, 1971-1972 Brown, 1979-1980 Penn, 1980-1981 Columbia

Zero one year and zero wins the next:
1961-1962 Brown, 1984-1985 Columbia, 1985-1986 Columbia, 1986-1987 Columbia

Mike Brown '57, the former Dartmouth quarterback who owns and runs the Cincinnati Bengals is in the crosshairs of this story from ESPN about the travails of the long-suffering NFL team. Daughter Katie Blackburn is the team's executive vide president. For an interesting, if dated, story on Blackburn, who played hockey at Dartmouth, click here.

A regular reader has sent along a reminder that there are three Ivy products in the United Football League. Harvard's Liam O'Hagan and Brown's Kai Brown are members of the California Redwoods. Brown's Chad Gessner is a member of the Florida Tuskers. Um, Tuskers? It's a wild bore. Oops, make that a wild boar. (link)

Yale Bowl as a tennis venue? Check out this photo. (They have pretty good grass at The Bowl, but Wimbledon it's not.) Find a brief explanation of what it was all about on the Portal 31 blog.