Name That Linebacker

It's not hard but you have to connect the dots on this Orlando Sentinel story about a promising Florida high school linebacker just to figure out who his famous father might be. For some reason the dad's name doesn't appear in the story (although I expect at some point an editor will get to the story and insert the name).

The son's name? Kellen Williams.

The father's name? Here are some clues from the story:

• Went to Dartmouth
• Played 14 years in the NFL with the Cincinnati Bengals
• Was intense on the field

That's right. High school linebacker Kellen Williams' dad happens to be Reggie Williams '76.

The younger Williams is 5-foot-11 and 170 pounds. From the story:

Williams was a bit surprised to hear he had made the list, and he knows there are other players out there who could have been place in the spot he garnered.

"Of course, everyone thinks they're the best at their own positions," said Williams, who has snared the No. 9 spot on the Sentinel's 2011 Central Florida Top 10 linebackers.

And the ending ...

Grades won't be an issue, however. With that 1600 and a 4.5 weighted GPA, he'll be getting looks from plenty of schools.

"No matter what happens, I'm going to get a good degree somewhere," Williams said. "All of the schools I've talked to have stressed academics."

Like Dartmouth.

"They are really interested," he said, "since my dad went there."

The story doesn't mention it but Williams goes to West Orange High School in Winter Garden, Fla. His Scout.com page can be found here.

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It would be hard to have a better season than Rick Taylor had this year as head coach of the Calanda Broncos in Switzerland. Correction: It would be impossible to have a better season.

The onetime Dartmouth assistant and former Northwestern director of athletics saw a 16-0 season come to an end with a 49-7 win over the Basel Gladiators in the Swiss Bowl. With the victory Calanda became the first Swiss team ever to win the Bowl and the EFAF Cup. Find a full story and pictures here. Best of luck with the translated page here.

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New Hampshire isn't on the Dartmouth schedule this fall but it's still interesting to take a look at the kind of information UNH's high-powered conference churns out. The Colonial Athletic Association online media guide can be found here.

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Speaking of high-powered, Penn State is playing Indiana this fall at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. It's an Indiana home game, if you can believe that. Find a story here. But that's old news.

The reason for bringing it up again is to point you to a really impressive 30-second promotional video put together by the PSU people. Do take a look at it because it is the kind of thing an Ivy school could pull together and easily toss up on YouTube. It does get the blood flowing.

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And yes, it was fun to watch that clip without any "buffering." With our long-awaited DSL up and running I'll have to find something to whine about other than our slow Internet ;-)