Green Loses Assistant

A Dartmouth football coaching staff that has been relatively stable over the past few years will be looking for a new defensive line coach with news that James Jones has taken a position as defensive line coach and special teams coordinator at the University of Northern Colorado. Jones just finished the second third year of his second stint in Hanover.

The Greeley Tribune has a mention of his move and Jones' bio is already up on the Bears website. UNC, like Dartmouth a member of the FCS, was 3-8 last year and 9-47 over the last five years, leading to Earnest Collins Jr., replacing Scott Downing as head coach this offseason.

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Peter Savarese, a Buckingham Browne & Nichols senior who was accepted early decision at Dartmouth and may play football, is mentioned in this Boston Herald note that says he broke the school record for tackles in a season with 91 as a linebacker.

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Yale football coach Tom Williams, a Stanford assistant under Buddy Teevens, has spoken with the Cardinal AD about the head coach opening on The Farm. The Yale Daily and Portal 31 have stories.

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The Boston Globe writes that while former Brown quarterback and coach Mark Whipple is still the favorite to be named head coach at UConn, nothing has been finalized.

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Scoring has been updated for The Directors Cup with the final football games completed. Dartmouth is tied with Brown for 84th in the nation in the rankings which purport to show the most successful overall athletic program. All of the Big Green's points were accumulated by the men's soccer team, which won two games in the NCAA Tournament before falling to No. 8 UCLA in two overtimes, 2-1.

Princeton is the top-ranked Ivy League school at No. 25 with Penn at 58. Dartmouth and Brown are the only other two Ivies ranked.

The top five schools in the Directors Cup should be no surprise:

1. Stanford
2. North Carolina
3. Ohio State
4. Florida State
5. Penn State

Stanford has won the award for 16 consecutive years and all but one of the years it has been handed out. (At the Division III level Williams has won the distinction the last 12 years and 14 of the last 15. Dartmouth AD Harry Sheehy was previously athletic director of the powerhouse Williams program.)

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The eighth and last 2011 Ivy League schedule to be posted here might still have an adjustment to even out the home-and-away schedule, but here's how it looks right now:

Harvard
Sept. 17 at Holy Cross
Sept. 24 Brown
Oct. 1 Lafayette
Oct. 8 at Cornell
Oct. 15 Bucknell
Oct. 22 Princeton
Oct. 29 Dartmouth
Nov. 12 Penn
Nov. 19 at Yale

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From the Yale Daily:

Yale has agreed to pay a $1 million settlement to the company previously led by Yale baseball program donor John Mazzuto ’70, who allegedly obtained the money he gave to his alma mater illegally.

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The Columbus Dispatch has a story with Rob Riley in which the coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets' top minor league team speaks at length about his father Jack Riley '44. (Thanks for the link.) The paper writes:

Jack Riley is 90, but remains sharp as skate blades and ornery as a snapping turtle.

The family patriarch molded cadets into college hockey players for 36 seasons at Army and beat the Russians at the Olympics 20 years before Al Michaels asked a nation if it believed in miracles.

Riley skated on the famed Rondeau-Riley-Harrison line.

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The Daily Dartmouth has an update on freshman William Kamkwamba ’14, who built a windmill that brought electricity to his village of Masitala, Malawi. His story is documented in the bestseller, “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity & Hope.” To get up to speed on the story, check out this short video.