Wrapping Up the Season

In case you missed it, here's a TV report about Harvard-Yale that shows the failed punt fake:



It took some time to make the web, but the official Ivy League release on the All-Ivy selections has been posted here. This list includes the school year of the nominees, helpful as you look ahead to next year and who is returning what.

In case you weren't counting (and count me among that group, pun intended) there were 13 members of the first offense and 14 members of the first defense.

By my count, then, there should have been nine members of the second offense and eight members of the second defense. But no, there were 14 members of the second offense and 16 members of the second defense. With 12 more members on the honorable-mention offense and defense there was no shortage of players honored.

Green Alert Take: Mixed feelings on this one. It's great to have a lot of players recognized but when four quarterbacks in an eight-team conference make the all-league it seems a little strange. Read on ...

While by most accounts this was not a banner year for quarterbacks in the Ivy League (although four All-Ivy selections may debunk that) it was quite the opposite in the Patriot League. No fewer than four of the seven teams had QB's who posted remarkable numbers, with four in the top 20 nationally in passer rating:

• Rob Curley, Lafayette, third in rating, 3,044 yards, 28 touchdowns, 12 interceptions, 68.8 percent
• Greg Sullivan, Holy Cross, 11th in rating, 1,952 yards, 18 touchdowns, five interceptions, 58.7 percent (plus 808 rushing yards and seven rushing TDs)
• John Skelton, Fordham, 15th in rating, 3,429 yards, 26 touchdowns, 10 interceptions, 64.4 percent (plus five rushing TDs)
• Dominic Randolph, Holy Cross, 18th in rating, 3,429 yards, 31 touchdowns, 15 interceptions, 64.3 percent (plus 474 yards and six touchdowns rushing)

Harvard's Collier Winters was the top-rated quarterback in the Ivy League at No. 41 with 1,861 yards passing, 15 touchdowns, seven interceptions and a 57.6 percent completion rating. There were 93 quarterbacks rated including seven from the Ivies (no Penn quarterback made the NCAA passing/games played threshold):

41. Harvard-Winters
46. Brown-Newhall-Caballero
64. Columbia-Olawale
75. Yale-Witt
83. Princeton-Wornham
84. Dartmouth-Conner Kempe
90. Cornell-Ganter.

Holy Cross' Randolph, by the way, is the only Dartmouth opponent to make the ballot for the Payton Award, symbolic of the top offensive player in the FCS. (link)

Brown's Paul Jasinowki joins Florida's Tim Tebow and 22 others on the CoSida Academic All-America team. (link)