Monday, October 11, 2010

Yards Per Catch

The NCAA doesn't officially keep yards-per-catch statistics, but pulling them out of the yards-per-game listings shows Dartmouth junior Michael Reilly leads all receivers in the nation who have double-figure catches with an average of 23.7 yards on his 15 grabs. Hakeem Moore of Towson is next with 23.1 on 18 catches.

Reilly had receptions of 48 and 44 yards Saturday against Yale while finishing with four catches for 124 yards total. He had grabs of 53, 38 and 28 yards against Penn and 41 yards against Bucknell.

Among those who haven't reached double figures in catches yet, Michael Rios of Marist is averaging a national best 35.9 yards per catch on nine receptions.
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The Daily Dartmouth story on Saturday's last-second loss to Yale can be found here. The Yale Daily has a story about the game here.
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Huge movement in this week's Sagarin Ratings suggests there's been enough cross pollination in the schedules for a major reshuffling that wasn't kind to the Ivies, particularly Penn and Harvard. Opening-day victim Bucknell is now listed as the next-to-last team in the country. Here's how the teams stand this week with last week's ranking and result in parentheses.
174. Yale (170 - beat Dartmouth)
185. Harvard (125 - beat Cornell)
187. Brown (150 - lost to Holy Cross)
199. Penn (140 - beat Bucknell)
213. Columbia (176 - beat Lafayette)
222. Dartmouth (187 - lost to Yale)
230. Cornell (226 - lost to Harvard)
234. Princeton (201 - lost to Colgate)

207. Holy Cross (182 - beat Brown)
232. Sacred Heart (234 - lost to Bryant)
244. Bucknell (237 - lost to Penn)
(Last in the nation: 245. Howard)
Also of interest:
133. New Hampshire
155. Colgate
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Compiled records of the opponents Ivy League schools have played so far:
Yale 8-7
Cornell 6-7
Princeton 6-9
Brown 7-8
Dartmouth 5-10
Harvard 5-10
Penn 4-11
Columbia 3-13
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From an opinion piece in the Daily Dartmouth under the headline, Mascot Without Malice:
We should speak to the Abenaki and ask what they think about the general idea of a mascot honoring their tribe.

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