Three Weeks and Counting Until Tee Time

A reminder that the Dartmouth Friend of Football Golf Classic is set for three weeks from today at Hanover Country Club. There's still time to sign up. For more information and a link to the brochure for the event, click here. For photos from previous FOF Golf Classics, click here.

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Craig Haley over at The Sports Network is continuing his series on the Top 10 players in various areas of the field. His latest is the Top 10 defensive backs and while I didn't expect Shawn Abuhoff to make the list, the Dartmouth junior-to-be should find himself at least in the conversation a year from now if he can have another big season.

Abuhoff had three interceptions, five pass breakups and 43 tackles as a freshman. Last fall he was the only sophomore named to the All-New England team after intercepting three more passes and ranking fifth in the country with 14 passes defended in 10 games. He had 41 tackles, two forced fumbles and one blocked kick.

A member of the All-Ivy League second team as a sophomore, Abuhoff was also a weapon on special teams, finishing 18th in the nation in kickoff return average and needing just one more punt return to finish 24th in the country in that category.

For what it's worth, the only Ivy League player mentioned in the Top 10 FCS defensive backs story wears Crimson. He doesn't make the Top 10 cut but after an intro about one player Haley introduces the rest of them this way:

With apologies to players like William & Mary cornerback B.W. Webb, Harvard free safety Colin Zych and Tennessee State strong safety Eugene Clifford, here are the other nine players in the Top 10.

Speaking of The Sports Network's Top 10 lists ...

• Find TSN's Top 10 Defensive Linemen here.
• For the top running backs, click here.
• The TSN's top linebackers are here.
• The Top 10 quarterbacks, a list that includes Brown's Kyle Newhall-Caballero and UNH's RJ Toman (who is in a battle to hold the starting job), can be found here.
• Craig's take on the top linemen is here.

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Andrew Seidman was a 6-foot-2, 195-pound running back from Lake Oswego, Ore., who was a freshman on the 2005 team before giving up football and turning his attention to another game – poker. (See last June's BGA blog for more.) Following up on a Roar Lions Roar post about a former Columbia player who turned to poker, I found a player profile for Seidman on the I Am Ranked site.

Enjoy the long weekend.