Dunk You Very Much

Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens is a "sitting dunk" at the Carnival for a Cause that raised $2,200 for the National Down Syndrome Society. The event was organized by former wide receiver Kyle Battle.

Gotcha. (Thanks to a reader for the photos.)

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On Sunday we took a look at the leading returning passers for each team Dartmouth will face this fall. Here are the leading rushers the Big Green will see this year. In addition to carries and yards in 2009, the list includes where that yardage total ranked on their respective teams:

BROWN
1. Zach Tronti 133-564
2. Spiro Theodhosi 82-423
3. Kyle Newhall-Cabellero 65-105

COLUMBIA
3. Shawn Brackett 53-287
4. Leon Ivery 48-232
5. Zack Kourouma 48-194

CORNELL
3. Marcus Hendren 38-229
5. Nick Mlady 21-50
6. Abdul Taylor 12-48

HARVARD
1. Gino Gordon 114-632
2. Treavor Scales 108-485
3. Collier Winters 121-295

PENN
1. Lyle March 112-526
2. Bradford Blackmon 36-204
3. Matt Hamscher 50-203

PRINCETON
1. Tommy Wornham 94-372
3. Meko McCray 62-239
4. Akil Sharp 45-142

YALE
1. Alex Thomas 72-286
2. Mordecai Cargill 73-236

Non-conference:
BUCKNELL
1. CJ Hopson 135-633
2. Ryan Smith 69-283
4. Tyler Smith 55-234

HOLY CROSS
2. Matt Bellomo 91-442
3. Eddie Houghton 68-389

SACRED HEART
2. Gary Coles 73-352
3. Marcel Archer 58-292

The two teams that came off the schedule:
UNH
2. Sean Jellison 94-424
3. RJ Toman 110-251

COLGATE
2. Nate Eachus 187-919
3. Greg Sullivan 159-788

And finally ...
DARTMOUTH
1. Nick Schwieger 139-626
2. Greg Patton 68-317
4. TJ Cameron 10-18

The Sports Network writes that the Dartmouth-Bucknell game is part of a home-and-home series. Scroll down to find the mention. I'll try to confirm the home game.

The Brown Daily Herald has a nice piece on tight end Colin Cloherty, who made it to the Super Bowl with the Indianapolis Colts this year. The story includes a quote from his position coach, Joe Leslie, Dartmouth '72. An interesting quote from Cloherty on the glamorous life of an NFL player:

“I was thinking Cowboys of the 1990s, you know, parties and everybody knows who you are and media all over the place. And that’s really not how it is. It’s football 90 percent of your life — from when you wake up to when you go to sleep. And then maybe once every other week or something, you get to go out with some of the guys and hang out on a Monday night.”

Credit to Colgate for a web page entitled, Who Recruits My Area? If you know of a kid who you think can play you click on the state and up comes the bio and e-mail address of the appropriate coach.

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And finally, those of you who have followed this blog since its inception might remember that when the Certain Hanover High Sophomore was in sixth grade his team won the Connecticut Valley Little League tournament title. Four years later he's moved up but I'm still helping coach the Green Machine and it's looking formidable again. But that's not what made me proudest last night when we played in a nearby town.

As our kids went bounding to the home plate umpire to shake his hand and thank him as they do after every game, he instead shooed the team up the third base line and out of earshot of the other team. Then he told them he had something to say.

For the briefest moment I wondered if I had missed an uncharacteristic little act of misbehavior by one of our players. I didn't think so because we work hard to stress sportsmanship.

With all eyes on him, the ump thanked our kids for the respect they showed the other team in a game where it would have been easy to start big-timing or fooling around. He told the kids that he grew up in Hanover, worked in Hanover and was proud of this Hanover team. With that, our kids ran to home plate, called the other team over and presented a signed baseball to the player they selected as the opposing team MVP, something we do every game. The game couldn't have been much fun for the other team but the way the kids on both teams clamored around their MVP to pat him on the back and cheer you couldn't tell at that moment which kids won and which kids lost.

Learning how to be a good winner is just as important as being a good loser. I'd like to think our kids have that part down.