Dartmouth and Harvard believe in the first option and once again will scrimmage – or play a preseason game to be more accurate – on Sept. 11.
New Yale coach Tom Williams believes in the second school of thought. Instead of squaring off with Princeton as Yale has in the past, Williams will have the Bulldogs scrimmage Division III Union College at Yale Bowl on Sept. 5. Williams told the New Haven Register's Portal 31 blog:
"I thought the Princeton scrimmage didn’t make a whole lot of sense in terms of playing an in-season opponent, even in the NFL the preseason games are against regional teams or non-divisional teams. For me, this will give us a chance to compete against somebody else and see how we do. I think it will work out for all the parties."The Register's Jim Fuller writes: "I never understood the logic of having two Ivy League teams play each other in the preseason. It was a case of neither team wanting to show too much so it was as vanilla as these things get. I'm not naive enough to think Yale will run everything against Union but it makes much more sense."
Green Alert Take: You can easily make a case both ways, but I know which is more fun for the players and the fans and it's not going up against a Division III team. Not that a coach would put any weight at all on which is more fun. Entertainment value aside, which do you think helps a team more? Vote in the poll to the left. (The non-Ivy DI option isn't really a viable option because virtually all of them will have games before the Ivies are ready to scrimmage, but if they could ...)
Fuller also has a story in the Register regarding the chances of the Ivy League adding an 11th game if the idea of going to the NCAA playoffs never gets on the table. From the story:
When it was suggested that needing one extra week of practice for a bowl game might be an easier sell to the Ivy League presidents than having to potentially play five consecutive weekends if an Ivy League team were to advance to the Football Championship Subdivision national title game, (Yale Athletic Director Tom) Beckett chose his words extremely carefully.I stuck my head into Dartmouth's Leede Arena yesterday to sneak a peak at a little pickup hoops. Among the current and former players on the floor was junior wide receiver Will Deevy, who everyone has been telling me has some serious "ups." Well, it's true and if ever there is someone who would be a logical target for an alley-oop pass in the corner of the end zone, he is it. ...
“Those are your words and I think you are right on,” was Beckett’s politically-correct response.
Showing he can pass more than a football, former quarterback Josh Cohen did a very good job of distributing the ball, including some nifty no-look passes. Among his targets was his 6-foot-10 brother Jake, who will be a freshman at Davidson this year. Watching his spin moves under the basket and smooth outside shot, you could only imagine what it would be like if he'd be wearing green this year instead of the Davidson red.
The latest in the series of Daily Pennsylvanian summer stories on football deals with the Quakers' handful of incoming offensive linemen. The story ends with a reminder that while Penn has new players coming in, they won't have to be pressed into action. From the story:
With four starting linemen returning in the fall, the current group has developed the "cohesion" to lead the offense, according to Bagnoli.All Ivy League schools have ratcheted up promotions to help sagging football attendance in recent years and Harvard is no exception. Kudos to the Crimson for a couple of programs that are being pushed on their website. The first, under the headline KIDS FOR FREE, notes that, "Youth 12 & under receive free admission to every 2009 home football game!" Harvard also has an Upcoming Events announcement that for the Friday, Sept. 25 game against Brown, faculty and staff can get free tickets.
"I think (their familiarity with one another) is a huge positive," he said. "We've got to get that group to play at a very high level and if we can do that … then we'll have a chance to be a pretty good offense."
“I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it.”The writer of those famous words from the movie classic, On the Waterfront, was Dartmouth graduate Budd Schulberg '36, who died Wednesday at 95. The Daily Dartmouth has a story.
The Daily D also has a story spun out of the 2009 Forbes Magazine ranking of “America’s Best Colleges.” Dartmouth is ranked 98th in the rating, right after Huntington University of Indiana. Fully 25 percent of the ranking is based on the findings of ratemyprofessor.com, which didn't sit particularly well with this commentor.
(While it's dangerous to put much stock in these ratings, it's hard not to scan them down when you have a child looking at schools. And so it's noted here that the certain Hanover High senior-to-be has visited five of the top 25 on the Forbes list and will likely look at a sixth.)
The United States Military Academy, West Point, took the top ranking head of Princeton on the Forbes list this year. Find the full list here.
And finally this. When I was at the local newspaper I'd occasionally grimace at the choice of the lead story on page 1. Usually it was what you would expect, but there were those occasional slow news days when you just knew out-of-towners would smirk and think, "Wow, is this the boondocks." What got me thinking about that was the lead story on page 1 of the Cornell Sun: "Longtime Cornell Zamboni Driver Accepts University Retirement Package."
And finally this II: I looked into the Cash for Clunkers program. My goofy '93 Mitsubishi Expo with 160,000 miles on it doesn't qualify. The mpg is two miles too high. (It actually gets much better mileage than that, but shhh!) Don't tell Mrs. BGA, but I'm glad we didn't make the cut. I happen to like the old beater. By the way, we nicknamed the car Vlad, as in Vlad Guerrero. An old Expo. Get it?
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