Numbers Game

Here's how the final poll numbers turned out. Work it out and it averages 5.19 wins for Dartmouth this fall.

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The Ivy League football coaches conference call will be held Tuesday and I would expect the Big Green to be chosen somewhere near the middle of the pack. What does that mean?

You make the call. Here's how the poll has gone for Dartmouth since the Big Green's last Ivy League championship:

• 1996–Picked first, finished first, 7-0 Ivy, 10-0 overall
• 1997–Picked third, finished second, 6-1, 8-2
• 1998–Picked sixth, finished tied for seventh, 1-6, 2-8
• 1999–Picked eighth, finished sixth, 2-5, 2-8
• 2000–Picked seventh, tied for sixth, 1-6, 2-8
• 2001–Picked seventh, finished tied for seventh, 1-6, 1-8
• 2002–Picked fifth, tied for sixth, 2-5, 3-7
• 2003–Picked fourth, tied for second, 4-3, 5-5
• 2004–Picked fifth, tied for seventh, 1-6, 1-9
• 2005–Picked seventh, finished seventh, 1-6, 2-8
• 2006–Picked seventh, finished tied for sixth, 2-5, 2-8
• 2007–Picked eighth, tied for fourth, 3-4, 3-7
• 2008–Picked seventh, finished eighth, 0-7, 0-10
• 2009–Picked eighth, finished tied for sixth, 2-5, 2-8
• 2010–Picked??????

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Steve McCormack, who opened some eyes with his play as a speedy wide receiver on the Dartmouth junior varsity (bio), has returned home to Texas and will walk on to the SMU football team this fall.

McCormack's SMU bio page doesn't have much on it but you can find it here. I don't have access to the Scout.com SMU pages, but the "teaser" from one of the spring practices said, "Steven McCormack had 3 catches, Beasley, Johnson, and Fleming all had one catch." Another page teased a practice coverage this way: "Steven McCormack- 1 catch with a nice ..."

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Clicked on a Holy Cross "recruiting" link and came up with this PDF. Either the link was incorrect or what some of us used to call media guides really were recruiting guides.

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The Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl Game pitting the top graduated seniors from New Hampshire against the top graduating seniors from Vermont will be played this afternoon, not at its traditional home of Memorial Field, but at Windsor High School, about a half hour south of Hanover. With New Hampshire winning the last nine meetings and holding a lopsided 41-13-2 advantage in the game, the powers-that-be decided to trim the quarters from 15 minutes to 12 this year. The offered explanation was that it will prevent injuries, but most everyone believes that the shorter quarters were yet another in a continuing series of tweaks in the game designed to try to help a Vermont team always with less depth be more competitive. Hey, it could be working. One wag has even deemed Vermont a slight favorite.