Cover Guys

Picked up one of these pocket Dartmouth football schedule cards yesterday. (They are actually four-panel folders.) Tailback Nick Schwieger (22) and defensive end Charles Bay (96) are on the cover. Interestingly, neither is expected to play in today's preseason game against Harvard, the better to be ready for the opener against Bucknell one week from tomorrow.

As an aside, I can remember when I worked at the college getting letters from collectors asking to be sent a schedule card or two. I used to wonder just how much the collectors spent on postage each year. I'll bet a bunch. Click image to supersize

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The complete game notes for Week Two opponent Sacred Heart's Northeast Conference opener against Robert Morris have been posted here. The notes report that Sacred Heart was last in the Northeast Conference with 113.9 yards per game a year ago and ran for almost exactly double that – 227 yards – in their opening win over Marist. Marcel Archer had 104 yards and Greg Ibe 97.

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This week's Sagarin Ratings offer a chance to see how teams rise and fall who didn't play (the Ivies), who beat lower-rated teams (UNH, Holy Cross and Colgate) and who lost (Bucknell). Not sure what we can infer, but it's interesting nonetheless. The number after the school name is last week's ranking:

124. Harvard (130)
130. Penn (136)
156. Yale (159)
157. Brown (160)
189. Princeton (188)
200. Columbia (200)
201. Cornell (202)
209. Dartmouth (212)

Also of interest ...

93. UNH (88 – beat C. Connecticut)
155. Holy Cross (148 – beat Howard)
165. Colgate (154 – beat Monmouth)
214. Sacred Heart (231 – beat Marist)
230. Bucknell (214 – lost to Duquesne)

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Two weeks from tonight the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League will open up against the Hartford Colonials. The team's wide receivers coach is Roger Hughes the former Dartmouth offensive coordinator who was head coach at Princeton for 10 years until being let go after last season. Among the players listed on the current Omaha roster are NFL veterans Jeff Garcia and Ahman Green and a fellow who did not make it to the NFL named ... wait for it ... Maurice Clarett.

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Interesting to read Harvard news in the Yale school paper, but there you go. Harvard's endowment recovered 11 percent in the last year. Find a story in the Yale Daily.

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I'll be at Harvard this afternoon and will have a few impressions on Green Alert Premium tonight. Tomorrow morning I'll be taking in the Big Green's opening cross country meet on Hanover Country Club but I won't be writing about that ;-)