From the NCAA News:
The NCAA and the American Football Coaches Association are partnering on a national sportsmanship initiative called “Respect Weekend” that will take place in games played September 3-7.The Ivy League, of course, will still be two weeks away from its first game this weekend.
You are in a fantasy football league made up of Ivy League players. Who do you take first and what Dartmouth players would you choose? Princeton's always interesting TigerBlog offered up one draft scenario in which the top five picks were Princeton running back Jordan Culbreath, Brown receiver Bobby Sewall, Penn running back Mike DiMaggio, Harvard receiver Matt Luft and Brown receiver Buddy Farnham. Those, my friends, well well-informed decisions.
Dartmouth players chosen? Taken third in the second round (as the sixth wide receiver pick) was junior Timmy McManus.
Taken seventh in the second round (each round was eight players deep) was senior quarterback Alex Jenny, the third QB taken.
The Daily Pennsylvanian has a story about the Quakers getting away from the "Offense of the 2000s." Said new Penn offensive coordinator Jon McLaughlin:
"Everything's going to be based on us being able to run the football. People look at this version of Penn offense and will say 'Boy, this is a physical team that really can run the ball.'"The National Football Foundation release about renaming the Draddy Trophy for the top scholar-athlete in college football after former Columbia great Bill Campbell has been posted here.
Foster's Daily Democrat has a story about UNH quarterback RJ Toman and one of the themes will sound familiar to anyone who has sat in on a Dartmouth quarterback meeting with coach Buddy Teevens: Don't try to do too much.
Got an email from someone after yesterday's post on Castleton State College becoming the first Vermont state school to have a football team since the University of Vermont folded its program in the mid-70's. When the UVM club football team plays the Dartmouth jayvees on Oct. 18, keep your eyes open for one of the all-time classic football T-shirts on a Vermont fan: UVM Football, Undefeated Since 1974.
From the Can You Top This department: Stanford football coach Jim Harbaugh has a new $50,000-$70,000 private bathroom that, and I quote Harbaugh here, "cuts down on drag." Well, OK. The MercuryNews.com has a story.
Extra Point
I heard an interview in the car the other day with the author of Alex & Me, the 2008 book Harvard professor Irene Pepperberg wrote about teaching a grey parrot to speak. It was intriguing enough that I'm probably going to add the book to my reading list. It also sent me off Googling and I came across this YouTube video. Check it out. It will really get you thinking.
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