On Time

Have you noticed that Dartmouth's 1:30 kickoff for home games is just about the latest (regular) start for any of the Big Green opponents? Dartmouth scheduled home games for a 12:30 kickoff until last year.

Here are the starting times for most Saturday afternoon games:

Brown – 12:30
Columbia – 12:30
Cornell – 12:30
Harvard – noon
Penn various, with two at 1:30
Princeton – 1
Yale – noon.

Bucknell – 1
Holy Cross – 1
Sacred Heart – 1

Colgate – 1
New Hampshire – noon

Green Alert Take – Word was the decision to move the games later in the day was made to give students who sleep in on Saturday mornings the chance to get over to the stadium. It didn't work. Without canvassing the players, the hunch here is they choose to see gametime moved back up next year. The waiting is hard.

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A quick spin around the Ivy League before heading out to Saturday's practice on Memorial Field ...

There's a season preview posted on the Brown site. From the story:

While the Bears' offense graduated two of the finest wide receivers in Ivy football history in Buddy Farnham and Bobby Sewall, along with three All-Ivy linemen, (coach Phil) Estes returns first team All-Ivy quarterback Kyle Newhall-Caballero ...

Columbia has a Q&A with the Lion captains. Alex Gross says:

As a team I think we are leaps and bounds ahead of where we have been in the past at this point. That is definitely a testament to the work everyone put in this off-season - we were together in the weight room and in the gym.

Harvard has a 47-second video look at practice No. 8 that shows some excitement.

Penn's quarterback coach looks at the Quaker QB situation in a video accompanied by a very thorough synopsis of the position. Penn already has lost one quarterback for the season – but not one of the frontline pair.

Princeton coach Bob Surace talks about the start of practice in another video.

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Week One opponent Bucknell staged a mock game. There's a story and video.

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Yalies and visitors to New Haven will be glad to know that Mory's has reopened. There's a Yale Daily News story. Not gonna tell you what Mory's is. If you know, you are smiling. If you don't know, you don't care ;-)