Speaking of ouches, the DP story includes a Penn player's analysis of Dartmouth running back Nick Schwieger, who can deliver an ouch. Here's an interesting and revealing quote from Penn linebacker Jake Lewko on Schwieger:
"He's a real hard-ball runner; he runs straight ahead, puts his shoulder into you looking to blow you away. He's not real quick, not real shifty, and I think that's good for our defense … We're much better hitting fire with fire."Green Alert Take: Sounds like it will be fun to see what happens when Schwieger and Lewko come at each other with a head of steam.
The Daily Dartmouth preview for Penn can be found here.
Jake Novak over at Roar Lions Roar, the Columbia blog, picks Penn but writes:
This is a toughie, because Penn is banged up and Dartmouth seems to have found a running game with Nick Schwieger. Both teams will really be gunning hard for this game, but Penn's defense is actually healthy and will take out some frustrations on Big Green QB Alex Jenny.
The Manchester Union Leader has a short capsule of Dartmouth-Penn at the end of this story. The longer top of the piece is an interesting look at the backup New Hampshire quarterback who played well against Dartmouth last week after announcing last spring he was transferring from UNH to Trinity College and then changing his mind.
The columnist for the Harvard Crimson who so enjoys taunting Dartmouth when making the weekly picks pledges not to do it this week but still manages to call Dartmouth (and Columbia), "perennial Ivy League bottom-feeders." The Crimson pick: Penn 35, Dartmouth 13.
Green Alert Take: There's been a lot of commentary in the past few years about Dartmouth being a traditional cellar-dweller or perennial bottom-feeder and it never fails to give me a start. Truth be told, for today's college students it is true. Dartmouth hasn't had even one winning season since this year's freshmen were seven or so years old. But for anyone with a sense of history, it just doesn't seem it could possibly be true.
The Dartmouth Sports Publicity office has a story on quarterback Alex Jenny being named one of 154 national semifinalists for the Campbell Trophy, which honors achievement on the field as well as in the classroom.
Elsewhere in the Ivy League, the Daily Princetonian writes that standout running back Jordan Culbreath will be out of action Saturday when the Tigers take on Columbia.
And finally, Dartmouth alumni seem to pay more attention than most to changes in college administration, trustee elections and the like. Not being an alum, I find the endless discussion of those changes tiring. But I've got to admit a story in today's Daily Dartmouth got my attention. The story was about how the acting dean named an acting dean of undergraduate students and an acting director of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership. That's a whole lot of acting ;-)
Extra Point
I was a huge fan of Charles Kuralt's On The Road segments for CBS News. As a gift a couple of weeks back, I was given a DVD collection of some of Kuralt's favorite segments. I was watching one the other day and came across a piece he did on the timelessness of mysterious medicines and ointments named after Doctor This or Doctor That. You know, the kind that is good for whatever ails you. Kuralt spent a lot of time talking about Bag Balm, which is made up the Connecticut River from Hanover.
I found myself chuckling about what I had just watched an hour or two later when I was doing a household cleaning chore. I rifled through the cabinet under the kitchen sink to pull out this and that cleaning supply and trotted them off to my project. None worked. Back to the sink I went for an old can of Ajax that I had noticed hidden way in the back. The powder inside had glommed together and I had to first shake the can and then pat it on the back to get anything to come out of the holes punched on the top. But when it did ... darn if boring old Ajax didn't do the job that all the fancy new concoctions couldn't do. Maybe Charles Kuralt was on to something.
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