Holy Moly

The Daily Dartmouth preview of the Holy Cross game can be found here.

The Daily Pennsylvanian doesn't give Dartmouth much hope against Holy Cross. Under the headline, "No quarterback, no end in sight," the DP begins its Ivy League preview this way:

Already losers of 16 straight, Dartmouth will be without quarterback Alex Jenny this weekend after the senior dislocated his right (throwing) elbow last week in a 38-7 loss to Yale.

Throw in the fact the Big Green (0-4, 0-2 Ivy) must travel to Worcester, Mass., to face No. 25 Holy Cross (4-1), and it’s safe to say loss number 17 will come tomorrow after the teams kick off at Fitton Field at 1 p.m.

The Harvard Crimson doesn't cut Dartmouth many breaks each week, but this time it does toss a bouquet at Jenny calling him "actually good." No clue if the writer realizes Jenny is hurt, but once again the Crimson shows little mercy for the Big Green in its weekly picks. From the column: "This is going to be ugly. Think Giants vs. Raiders ugly." The Crimson predicts a 44-7 Holy Cross win.

The Sports Network has a capsule of all top-25 games including HC-Dartmouth. TSN's prediction: Holy Cross 44, Dartmouth 14. (The Sports Network, by the way, goes on to pick Columbia to post a 21-17 win over Penn in a, dare-we-say-it, key Ivy League matchup.)

Jake Novak of the Roar Lions Roar Columbia football blog knows something about struggling teams and so he usually finds a way to soften the blow. His look at Dartmouth-Holy Cross reads like this:

The Crusaders offense may be slowed a bit by the weather, but not much. Dartmouth needs to find some answers.

The Manchester Union Leader has a capsule on the game headlined, Big Green Seeing Purple.

New starting quarterback Conner Kempe is quotes in a Palm Beach Post story about the resignation of his head football coach at The Benjamin School. Kempe told the paper:

"The outcry from the alumni is going to be heard very soon. The man was doing nothing wrong. I just find it a little bit absurd that he was somewhat pressured into resigning. That’s the word on the street.”

Should have posted this last week but there was an interesting op-ed type piece in the Yale Daily News last week written by Yale quarterback Patrick Witt, who transferred to the Ivy League from Nebraska. Witt writes that his stock answer when asked why he transferred is, "Because it's Yale."

Among other things, and to be honest, this is taken somewhat out of context, he wrote:

... I didn’t come here to play football. Nowhere in that phrase is any mention made of winning football games, or becoming the starting quarterback on the field. Though others may label me as a football player, I do not, nor have I ever, derived my identity from football. I am a student first and foremost. Therefore, I ask you to treat me as you would any other Yalie. I came to this school to learn from the best and to be surrounded by the best — in the classroom, not on the field.

Former Dartmouth head coach John Lyons has turned his time in NFL Europe into a nice pipeline of international talent coming to play for him at Kimball Union Academy. He sent international players to Boston College and UNH last year and has a couple more internationals this year. There's a story in the Valley News.

And finally, this on the flu front from the Daily Dartmouth:

About 240 Dartmouth students have been diagnosed with influenza-like illness as of Wednesday, although the number of cases reported each day has been declining ...