I'll Take This One, You Take That One

Curious how the draft went for Saturday's Green-White game? Here are the round-by-round picks for the first 15 rounds. (There were 38 rounds total.):

White (Captain Tim McManus)
1. Center Austen Fletcher
2. Defensive back Garrett Waggoner
3. Defensive back Shawn Abuhoff
4. Quarterback Conner Kempe
5. Offensive lineman Kyle Cook
6. Defensive tackle Mark Dwyer
7. Receiver Tanner Scott
8. Linebacker Matt Oh
9. Linebacker Garrett Wymore
10. Offensive lineman Ryan O'Neill
11. Defensive tackle Mick Davis
12. Tailback TJ Cameron
13. Tailback Chris Hardy
14. Defensive back Joey Casey
15. Offensive lineman Alex Wodka

Green (Captain Pat Scorah)
1. Defensive end Charles Bay
2. Offensive lineman John O'Sullivan
3. Quarterback Greg Patton
4. Offensive lineman Rob Bathe
5. Tight end John Gallagher
6. Offensive lineman Will Montgomery
7. Defensive back JB Andreassi
8. Defensive end Connor Phillips
9. Linebacker Aaron Limonthas
10. Tailback Nick Schwieger
11. Defensive tackle Tyler Green
12. Offensive lineman Pat Lahey
13. Tight end Justin Foley
14. Linebacker Tyer Melancon
15. Wide receiver Shawn Bode

What can you learn from that? Not much, actually. I sat in on one of these drafts and between the rules, the giggles, the players who are questionable because of injury (read: Nick Schwieger) and the oversights, it can be pretty funny. The final rosters, by the way, will be adjusted a bit by the coaches because of injuries and positional needs. The complete rosters (such as they are right now) will be on Green Alert tonight.

In case you are wondering, the Green-White is still set for 10 a.m. with the temperature rising into the upper 70's in the afternoon.

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A certain blogger isn't the only one who thought he might be in line for a family reunion Sept. 18 when Dartmouth was scheduled to play at Colgate. Kickoff specialist Don Kephart – whose boomers were reaching deep into the end zone yesterday – has a brother on the Raider track team. Andrew Kephart is a freshman pole vaulter out in Hamilton, N.Y.

The Utica Observer Dispatch writes about the schedule maneuvering that has Colgate playing at Syracuse and Dartmouth at Bucknell. Gate coach Dick Biddle is quoted this way:

“I don’t look at it as a payday. I look at it as an opportunity. It’s a stretch game, but it should be fun. It should be enjoyable. It’s a heck of a challenge. It’s kind of a reward for our success. There is not one negative thing about it.”

Chuck Burton, who chronicles not just Lehigh football but Patriot League goings-on while periodically tossing in some Ivy mentions, calls the schedule juggling a win-win-win for Colgate, Bucknell and Dartmouth in his Lehigh Football Nation blog.

In case you were curious, there is a web page where teams can find opponents looking for games on particular days. It hasn't been updated, but check it out here to see some of the teams that at one point might have been potential Sept. 18 opponents. On Green Alert last night Coach Buddy Teevens mentioned Charleston Southern, Drake and Wingate as three schools that were contacted.

New Cornell coach Kent Austin is the subject of a Q&A in the Cornell Sun. Austin identified one area of concern that was painfully obvious watching the Big Red the past couple of years:

"Football is a tough game and we need to become more physical overall as a football team, and the players have responded really well; they’ve worked hard and we’re proud of the progress that they’ve made at this point."

Brown's official website has a blurb about tomorrow's Brown-White game to be held at the Berylson Family Field not Brown Stadium, which is one of the two last natural grass fields in the Ivy League. (Yale Bowl has the other.)

Harvard football is hosting a bone marrow drive today. There's a story here.

And the new offensive coordinator/quarterbacks/receivers coach at Division III NESCAC member Wesleyan is ... the old head coach at Yale. The New Haven Register has a story about Jack Siedlecki once again scratching his coaching jones.

A friend has pulled together a moving video tribute to Owen Thomas, the Penn football player who took his own life. Find the video here.

The Daily Dartmouth catches up on the press conference introducing Paul Cormier as Dartmouth's new head coach of men's basketball. I stopped by his office a couple of days ago and you read it here first that Corms has hit the ground running. He shared a few of his thoughts about changes he hopes to make and suffice it to say they are ambitious, overdue and should help.

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Site preparation work has begun for the building of Dartmouth's new Visual Arts Center. A few photos taken this week ...


The view toward from Lebanon Street toward the heating plant. Gone is Clement Hall.
The view back toward the arches of the Hopkins Center. Brewster International House, the former Brewster Hall, has been demolished.
A walkway from Lebanon Street to the Hood has been created. The Hop is to the left and the Visual Arts Building will be to the right.

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Below, construction continues on a non-Dartmouth building a block away ...
The new Six South Street Hotel goes up behind the post office in Hanover.

Have a great weekend and I look forward to seeing some of you at the Green-White tomorrow. I'll have one or two ace statisticians with me – a certain Hanover senior and a certain soph.