Brown quarterback Kyle Newhall-Caballero ’11 leads the Ivy League in completions, attempts, touchdowns, interceptions, yards, total offense and pass efficiency. With two of the league’s top receivers in (Bobby) Sewall and Buddy Farnham ’10, the Bears’ aerial attack should have a big day against Dartmouth.Standout Brown receiver Sewall in the BDH story:
“They’re always in zone coverage with very little blitzes. They blitz somewhere along the lines of 8 percent of the time.”I personally thought they blitzed 9 percent of the time, but maybe I'm wrong ;-). Wow, has the ability to break down an opponent video via computer come along or what? Eight percent of the time?
Mike Szostak has a nice piece in the Providence Journal about Sewall and Farnham, Brown's perfectly matched receiver/utility player combo. And in case anyone forgot, Mike reminds us:
Two years ago this weekend (Nov. 10, 2007), Sewall ran all over Brown Stadium and the Big Green in one of the greatest performances by a Brown player. The former All-Stater from Portsmouth rushed for 144 yards and 4 touchdowns, caught 18 passes for 141 yards and threw a 41-yard touchdown pass, a 326-yard effort in Brown 56-35 victory.The Daily Dartmouth preview runs under the headline, Aerial attack will be key for Big Green in battle with Brown. From the story:
Most likely, Brown will focus on defending (running quarterback Greg) Patton’s offensive production, so a Big Green aerial attack will be critical to a Dartmouth victory.Jake Novak's Roar Lions Roar blog has been kind to Dartmouth – there could be a little commiseration thing going on there – but he's not going out on a limb this week with his picks. Jake writes:
... (T)he Big Green have made strides and guys like Charles Bay, Nick Schwieger, and Greg Patton are making 2010 look pretty good in Hanover. But the Bears will probably make Dartmouth look bad Saturday.The weekly prognositcator for the Harvard Crimson giveth and taketh away. First, there's a little compliment to Dartmouth:
The grit you showed in your double-overtime win against Cornell last week was certainly the hallmark of a team on the rise.That, not surprisingly, is followed by the punch line:
I look forward to seeing you next season, when, like this year’s Columbia team, you’ll jump out to a hot start, evoke uncontrollable shrieks of “Sleeper!” from the “experts,” and inevitably disappoint everyone who ever believed in you.And for good measure, the Crimson preview of the Columbia-Cornell game begins this way:
Ah, the two teams who lost to Dartmouth now play in some kind of Bizarro championship game of ineptitude.Harvard, of course, is playing host to Penn Saturday with a share of the Ivy League title on the line. The posters over at AnyGivenSaturday pose an interesting question:
Ok, both the Patriot and Ivy titles will be settled roughly an hour's distance from one another in the Commonwealth this Saturday. Which crowd do you see as being bigger and why?I'm gonna guess the Harvard game will slightly outdraw Holy Cross simply because it is Harvard, but I don't have a strong conviction either way. What do you think?
A regular reader sent along a link to a New York Times story about the Georgia Tech starting center who "received offers from nonscholarship programs at Harvard, Penn, Carnegie Mellon and Georgetown before deciding to walk on at Georgia Tech." Playing center may not be rocket science but if it were, Sean Bedford would be the right guy. Turns out he is an Aerospace Engineering major.
And finally, there's something in the air at just about every college on those first glorious days of spring that was invented right here in "metropolitan, downdown Etna," population 814. In fact, it was right down at the end of our dirt road that it got its start. Check out this Sports Illustrated story from 1987.
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