Opponent News Picks Up

The Centre Daily Times has a story about the return Bucknell of standout defensive end Josh Eden after a two-year Mormon mission. Dartmouth will face the Eden and the Bison in Week One. From the story:

And Eden, who is listed at 6-foot-4, 265 pounds, confesses that he is bigger, faster, stronger — that he is essentially more physically mature and more equipped to confound opposing offenses than before.

Bucknell opens at Duquesne tomorrow at 6 p.m. (Thanks for the link.)

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Week Two opponent Sacred Heart kicks off play at 7 tonight at Marist. The slumbering Sacred Heart website awoke with game notes here. Not much news there but there is a concise recap of the career to date of record-setting quarterback Dale Fink:

Heading into his fourth season under center for the Pioneers, r-senior Dale Fink holds 11 Sacred Heart passing records. Fink holds the school records for career passing yards (5,896), career completions (587), career touchdown passes (64), career passing attempts (921), career completion percentage (63.7), completions in a season (215 - 2008), completion percentage in a season (67.8 - 2008), passing yards in a game (373 vs. Monmouth 10/17/09), completions in a game (36 vs. Monmouth 10/17/09), passing attempts in a game (54 vs. Monmouth 10/17/09) and touchdown passes in a game (6 vs. Duquesne 11/14/09).

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There's some quarterback news regarding Week Three opponent Penn. From the Daily Pennsylvanian:

Senior QB and captain Keiffer Garton returned from the offseason healthy and ready to lead the team after an injury-ridden junior year. However, he may not be the team’s passer in the season opener Sept. 18 against Lafayette.

“He’s been cleared to do everything,” said Bagnoli, “but it’s more me really trying to be selective of how much we use him early — how quickly we adjust him to game.”

The DP has another story on an intriguing two-sport athlete who will be on the gridiron at Franklin Field this fall. From the story:

If Penn freshman and former Michigan all-state sprinter Aaron Bailey had to choose one sport to play at Penn, it would be — without hesitation — football.

But luckily for Bailey and the Quakers, he doesn’t have to choose.

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The Cornell Sun has a Q&A with new Big Red coach Ken Austin.

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Sad news on a couple of fronts. Former Yale football and lacrosse standout Jim MacLaren '85 has died. The Yale website has a brief story that recounts the courage and inspiration of MacLaren, who lost a leg after being hit by a bus. He became a record-setting triathlete and marathoner, only to be paralyzed in an accident that occurred during a triathlon.

Read more about MacLaren here.

Also, football publisher Don Hansen has died. Long before the Internet allowed regular guys on the street to become pseudo experts, Hansen was the regular guy on the street and a true expert on small-college football. How regular a guy was he? From his obit:

Hansen didn’t finish High School and at 21 years old decided to study to complete his GED while working at a Nursing Home. He received an Associate Degree in Accounting and worked for the Scott Peterson Meat Company in Chicago for 21 years.

Find his bio here.

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Now off to the first practice of double-sessions.