Eachus was the Patriot League rookie of the year last fall when he ran for 241 yards against Cornell in a little over two quarters and 214 yards against Bucknell. He had 171 yads against Lafayette.
Colgate plays Stony Brook Saturday at 6 p.m.
Some Colgate fans apparently don't think much of Dartmouth's football scheduling in the soon-to-be post-Colgate era. Check out this message board thread.
The news out of the University of New Hampshire's 10-point win over lowly St. Francis wasn't about injuries, but about how badly the Wildcats actually played. The Laconia Citizen notes that, "The Wildcats survived the upset bid by the Red Flash, despite three turnovers, eight penalties, a couple breakdowns on special teams, and a sequence where they managed only two first downs in 14 possessions."
The Citizen also summarized the struggles by quarterback RJ Toman, who hardly looked like the CAA's preseason offensive player of the year:
Toman completed 11 of 23 passes for 95 yards and two touchdowns with three interceptions. He went 5 for 6 on the Wildcats' first two scoring drives, but was just 6 of 17 the rest of the way, including the three interceptions.I'm a huge fan of UNH coach Sean McDonnell's plain-spoken, tell-it-like-it-is approach, but he could run for president with his curious description of Toman's interceptions:
"On all three I thought he made great reads. He threw it where he had to throw it, but he didn't locate it well enough."Dartmouth gets an unwelcome mention in the Ohio Valley Conference weekly notes. They point out that:
Indiana State enters this week’s game with a 28-game losing streak, the longest in the country. The Sycamores are one of three Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) teams with losing steaks over 10 games (Dartmouth and St. Francis (PA) have both lost 12 in a row).Did you know that former Harvard standout Desmond Bryant made the Oakland Raiders as a free agent defensive lineman? Me neither. From the story:
Bryant said the Ivy League gets a bad rap when it comes to football, but the better teams are comparable to many teams from the Football Championship Subdivision and can compete against some of the Football Bowl Subdivision teams as well.Former Dartmouth assistant Rob Talley has now led Stonehill's Division II team to consecutive wins over FCS team Wagner. This one was by a 45-42 score. Find a game story here and Talley's bio here.
If you follow these things, you had to know that in the run-up to the Penn State-Syracuse football game this weekend, Joe Paterno was going to be asked about the story that he and Syracuse AD Jake Crouthamel – the former Dartmouth tailback and football coach – had disagreements that kept the Nittany Lions out of the Big East. Paterno's press conference comments for the coming Syracuse game included this:
I tried to put together the conference. Jake Crouthamel, who was a Pennsylvania kid, was the athletic director at Syracuse. He was Dave Gavitt's roommate at Dartmouth. All right?And in the world of a couple of Hanover High School athletes, the sophomore golfer matched his season low during a qualifying round yesterday to make it into the jayvee tournament at Country Club of New Hampshire today. The news wasn't as good for his sister. Although the Hanover boys and girls both won what were expected to be challenging races handily, she realized soon after the race started that physically she wasn't up to running. But she's never quit a race and didn't this time, finishing well back in the race in a time she'd just as soon forget.
Extra Point
If The Story from American Public Media isn't the best programming on the radio, I don't know what is. The hour-long program features host Dick Gordon helping tell interesting stories from the lives of the not-so-famous.
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