Wednesday, November 10, 2010

More on Cornell

The Dartmouth website has a Teevens TeleTeaser coming out of the Cornell game. A few highlights are included. No promises, because I keep getting the wrong game, but I think at some point you should be able to watch an archived version of the Dartmouth-Cornell game at this Cornell link.
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Steamboat Today has a nice story about Dartmouth senior Lane Shipley spun out of the defensive tackle being named to the ESPN Academic All-District I University Division football team.
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Defensive end Charles Bay gets a quick mention if you scan far enoughdown this story from The Sports Network. It's about seven lines from the bottom of the Around the Nation section.
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The weekly power ratings are up at Roar Lions Roar and they look like this:
1. Penn
2(t). Harvard, Yale
4. Dartmouth
5. Brown
6. columbia
7. Cornell
8. Princeton
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How would an Ivy team do in the NCAA football playoffs? That's the question posed on a message board and there's a pretty wide-ranging string of responses. The most accurate answer: We'll never know.
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From the Harvard Crimson or perhaps the Truth is Stranger than Fiction department:
This year’s Harvard-Yale game might sound more like the World Cup than the typical college football match, thanks to student-initiated campaigns at both schools to sell fans vuvuzelas —South African horns that produce a loud monotone drone..
Also from the story:
Both Harvard and Yale band members have expressed concerns about the use of these instruments, stating that they fear that the blaring sound of the vuvuzelas will prevent their shows from being heard.
Vuvuzelas or the band show? Talk about a Morton's fork. ...

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