Saturday, December 05, 2009

You'll Get a Kick Out of This

An oldie but goodie. ...

Several weeks back this blog had an item about former Dartmouth placekicker Erik Hinterbichler '06. For an interesting 2002 New York Times profile of Hinterbichler, click here. From the story:
Hinterbichler was recently named a first-team all-American place-kicker by USA Today and a second-team kicker by Student Sports magazine, a prominent high school publication. But he has yet to be offered a college football scholarship, and he was not part of the nationwide letter-of-intent day Feb. 6, when top high school players make commitments to Division I programs.
Various spinoffs of the "Read Option" are all the rage in college football these days. What is it? A regular reader sent along this link.

And today's trivia question: What college once had 22 members of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society on its football team?

The answer: Dartmouth in 1925.

And now we're off for Burlington, Vt., to watch that certain Hanover High senior compete ... in a robotic contest.

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