The Hero of the Football Team is ...

Dartmouth's answer to The Onion has a list of its People of the Year. No. 3 is The Hero of the Football Team. Check out the Dunyun to find out who it is.

*

The Daily Dartmouth has a story headlined: Football stresses academics when recruiting skilled athletes.

*

Click here for another mention of Pulaski Southwestern (Kentucky) defensive end Zack Fowler choosing Dartmouth.

*

There's a thread on the Any Given Saturday message board that begins with an outtake from a story about a Harvard recruit that includes this quote:

"He is a D1 player who had his choice of schools, and Harvard put together a great financial package."

That is followed by the messageboard poster writing:

This should be required reading for folks that think that Harvard is "non-scholarship."

And that is followed by some back-and-forth over whether Harvard is in fact non-scholarship.

Green Alert Take: Harvard, like Dartmouth, is non "athletic" scholarship. Like most schools, it offers financial aid. The difference, of course, is how much Harvard can afford to offer ;-)

*

Should have linked to this before but Dartmouth soccer star Daniel Keat was chosen this week by the Los Angeles Galaxy with the third pick of the Major League Soccer supplemental draft. Bleacher Report has a thorough look at him. If Keat ends up playing for the Galaxy, he'll be the second Dartmouth alum to do so. The first was Andrew Shue '89, better known for the TV show Melrose Place.

*

Wonder what the Winter Carnival sculpture will be this year? The Daily Dartmouth reports that ...

... in honor of the 100th anniversary of Winter Carnival, the sculpture chairs are hard at work creating a tribute to the College’s first official sculpture. The first sculpture, created in 1925, was a castle wall that, when viewed from the front, seemed to enclose Baker Tower, recruitment chair Nick Valentini ’13 said. Instead of just one wall, though, Valentini said they hope to construct a four-walled, 16-foot castle complete with a moat.

*

For a complete look at the carnival and a wonderful photo of people waiting for the Winter Carnival train at the old station across the river in Norwich in the 1930's, click here.

*

The Carnival crew shouldn't have any lack of snow with up to five inches or so expected tonight. And there won't be any melting going on this weekend. The temperature Saturday and Sunday nights (potential recruits please stop reading here ;-) is expected to bottom out at 20 degrees below zero.

*

A couple of corrections to the composite Ivy League schedule have hit the BGA in box. They are in italics:

2011 Ivy League Football Schedule*
Sept. 17
Brown at Stony Brook
Columbia at Fordham
Bucknell at Cornell
Colgate at Dartmouth
Harvard at Holy Cross
Lafayette at Penn
Lehigh at Princeton
Georgetown at Yale

Sept. 24
Brown at Harvard
Cornell at Yale
Albany at Columbia
Cornell at Yale
Dartmouth at Sacred Heart
Penn at Villanova
Bucknell at Princeton

Oct. 1
Columbia at Princeton
Penn at Dartmouth
Rhode Island at Brown
Wagner at Cornell
Harvard at Lafayette
Yale at Lehigh

Oct. 8
Harvard at Cornell
Dartmouth at Yale
Columbia vs TBA
Holy Cross at Brown
Fordham at Penn
Princeton at Hampton

Oct. 15
Princeton at Brown
Penn at Columbia
Cornell at Colgate
Dartmouth at Holy Cross
Bucknell at Harvard
Yale at Lafayette

Oct. 22
Brown at Cornell
Columbia at Dartmouth
Princeton at Harvard
Yale at Penn

Oct. 29
Penn at Brown
Yale at Columbia
Cornell at Princeton
Dartmouth at Harvard

Nov. 5
Brown at Yale
Harvard at Columbia
Cornell at Dartmouth
Princeton at Penn

Nov. 12
Dartmouth at Brown
Columbia at Cornell
Penn at Harvard
Yale at Princeton

Nov. 19
Brown at Columbia
Cornell at Penn
Princeton at Dartmouth
Harvard at Yale

* Schedules are unofficial. Email updates and corrections.