More Out Of Colgate

No mention of tailback Nate Eachus' injury appears in the Colgate notes for Saturday's game against Stony Brook but the depth chart doesn't lie. (Actually, an awful lot of them do, but I digress.)

The Colgate depth chart lists 6-foot, 214 senior Mark Colon as the starting tailback and 5-10, 197 Jordan McCord on the second line. Colon had his career high of 33 rushing yards last week. McCord, whose name makes him sound eerily like a hybrid of former Colgate star Jordan Scott and former Yale star Mike McLeod, ran for a career-high 90 yards against Stony Brook last year.

Eachus, of course, had 241 yards in his first game alone as a running back last fall after switching over from linebacker.

Say this for Dartmouth, it's been in the discussion when it comes to recruiting some big-time players the past few years. One of them is Sam Acho, a junior defensive end for Texas who forced one fumble and recovered two of them for the Longhorns last week. From a story in the Dallas News:

Harvard, Stanford and Dartmouth had been possible destinations for college, but Sam Acho chose Texas, where he tested out of 26 college hours in foreign language, calculus and rhetoric before he got to campus. He is now a business honors student.

Piggybacking on a TigerBlog column, a writer for the Columbia Spectator mulls over possible picks in an Ivy League football fantasy draft. No Dartmouth players are mentioned.

The Yale Daily News has a story headlined, "Elis face a QB quandary." The story says the Yale depth chart lists returnee Brook Hart and Nebraska transfer Patrick Witt has 1a and 1b. Brings to mind what a wise person once told me, "If you have two No. 1 quarterbacks you have no No. 1 quarterback."

Yale, you will recall, has moved to 7:30 a.m. practices during the season. It's an interesting concept, although to be fair, not universally well received. From a Yale Daily story:

Williams scheduled early morning practices in order to free up afternoons for his players to participate in other extracurricular activities.

“A lot of what happens on campus occurs between three and six o’clock — Master’s Teas, seminars, office hours, study groups,” Williams said. “You miss a lot of those things when you’re a student-athlete. (Morning practices) give our guys a chance to experience these things (and) integrate them into the community.”

You just know some columnist somewhere is going to have fun with Yale players practicing in the morning so they can attend, "Master's Teas."

The Dartmouth press guide (the last ever?) has been printed and delivered. Once again, to purchase a copy, send a check for $15 made out to Dartmouth College to:

Cindi Mansell
Athletics Communications Office
6083 Alumni Gym
Hanover, NH 03755

After visiting the Princeton website daily to keep an eye out for a PDF of its football media guide, I started to wonder if I'd gotten it wrong. I knew there would be no printed guide in TigerTown this year but I thought a PDF would go up. Turns out there will be no football media guide of any sort at Princeton this year, with the usual media information instead to be posted on the school's reconfigured web page. It will be interesting to see how that works.

Speaking of web pages, those rotating front stories are driving me crazy. Now, you probably don't visit the Ivy football web pages as frequently as I do. (At least I hope not.) When I click on a school's football page it's usually to see if anything new has been posted. On a lot of them I have to wait until the lead stories cycle through or click on little index pictures below the main story to rotate them. On some of the sites it then becomes whack-a-mole, trying to click on the story of choice in the main frame before it rotates to the next one. I'm not going to name names here, but there are a couple of Ivy web pages that drive me bonkers that way.

Although Harvard's page is not one of the crazier ones it sure is a lot easier when a school offers a way to just look at the list of stories without all the bells and whistles. Here's Harvard's alternative view for that and it's revolutionary. It is a list of stories by date.

A note to web designers: Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

And finally, Friday's preseason contest against Harvard is not open to the general public. Only those on the gatelist will be allowed in.

Extra Point
Maybe it's because I'm an Apple afficionado, but it is always interesting to see what innovation the company is going to come out with next. The latest, announced yesterday, is an iPod nano that shoots video. I heard a commentator suggest a while back that one of the auto companies ought to bring Steve Jobs in to run things. I don't know how that would work out, but I do know this: It would be a lot more fun to see what the next year's models would be all about.