Monday Monday

Dartmouth tailback Nick Schwieger being named to the All-Ivy League first team is the subject of a brief story in the Attleboro Sun Chronicle. The wording of the story sounds a little familiar ;-)

The official Dartmouth sports information site is carrying the story I freelanced for the final game program about the seniors who stuck it out on the field for all four years. Find that story here.

Dartmouth alum Clark Judge '73 of CBSSports.com takes a little shot at his alma mater in his praise of the Tennessee Titans in a column Five Things I Like. Judge writes:

1. Tennessee owner Bud Adams as GM of the Year. Without his arm twisting, I'm not sure Vince Young plays another down in Tennessee. And without Vince Young the Titans are as lifeless as Dartmouth football.

Ouch.

Yale's infamous fake punt in the Harvard-Yale game gets the one-two treatment in the New Haven Register and the Yale Daily News.

In the Register, columnist Dave Solomon thinks Yale coach Tom Williams is protecting someone else who was responsible for the call. He writes:

...(If) you’re asking me if Williams was zany enough to actually make that call, I’m telling you no.

Solomon quotes from a letter Williams sent to "a few hundred of his closest donor friends:"

“Much will be made of ‘the call’ and rightfully so. No one except the staff and the team will understand the circumstances surrounding what happened. All I can say to you is that as the head coach, the buck will always stop with me. Whether we wanted the play at that time under those circumstances is really not important. The fact is that it was attempted, and it didn’t work out. I take full responsibility for that.”

The Yale Daily follows with a story that includes this quote from punter Tom Mante:

I was surprised, as most people were, but we all knew what was coming.

In light of the Register story, Williams has this to say to the Yale paper Sunday:

“We’d had a lot of bad things happen to us, including a missed tackle on fourth down and a missed field goal, and I thought our defense was gassed. We missed a block on the play — otherwise we would have won the game. It was good for 40 yards, and we’d prepared it all year.”

Another column in the Yale Daily essentially defends the call.

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And finally ... winter/indoor track practice begins today for that certain Hanover High senior and her sophomore brother. The senior – who spent much of the Thanksgiving break working on college applications – appears fully recovered from the condition that sabotaged her final cross country season and is excited to get going. It is fair to say the soph, who is using the season to prepare for baseball, is considerably less excited.