If his senior-year highlights left you wanting more, you can find junior-year highlights that show his ability to play all over the field here. According to the Star Tribune, McManus completed 32-of-50 passes (64 percent) for 444 yards with six touchdowns and one interception during a 10-0 regular season.
There was a Q&A with him in the Star Tribune prior to the season. McManus, of course, is the younger brother of two-time Dartmouth captain Tim McManus, the All-Ivy receiver/wildcat QB who will return next fall as a fifth-year senior.
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The Vernon Hills Review has a brief mention of early admit Chris Boudreaux, who intends to walk onto the football team. It lists the big tight end from Lake Forest Academy outside of Chicago as 6-foot-6, 255 pounds.Boudreaux, whose mother, Gail, is the leading scorer and rebounder in Dartmouth women's basketball history, did not play football as a sophomore or junior.
The Lake Forest football coach is Ted Stewart, a former Dartmouth assistant who later worked under John Lyons at Kimball Union Academy. Stewart told Scout.com that in addition to a lineman receiving big-time interest he has a couple of juniors who could end up in the Ivy League.
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You want to know in how much esteem Ivy League football is held across the country? Look at the records of teams that finished ahead of a very good Penn team in The Sports Network/Fathead.com Final FCS Top-25 College Football Poll. You want to know what happens when you don't participate in the playoffs? Penn slipped from No. 14 in the final regular season poll to No. 18 in the post-playoff poll despite sitting idle.The Sports Network/Fathead.com Final FCS Top-25 College Football Poll
1. Eastern Washington (121) 13-2
2. Delaware (1) 12-3
3. Villanova 9-5
4. Appalachian State 10-3
5. Georgia Southern 10-5
6. Wofford 10-3
7. New Hampshire 8-5
8. Stephen F. Austin 9-3
9. North Dakota State 9-5
10. William & Mary 8-4
11. Montana State 9-3
12. Jacksonville State 9-3
13. Southeast Missouri State 9-3
14. Lehigh Mountain 10-3
15. Bethune-Cookman 10-2
16. South Carolina State 9-3
17. Western Illinois 8-5
18. Penn 9-1
19. Northern Iowa 7-5
20. Montana 7-4
21. Liberty 8-3
22. Jacksonville 10-1
23. Grambling State 9-2
24. Cal Poly 7-4
25. Dayton 10-1
Others receiving votes: Robert Morris 230, Coastal Carolina 152, Texas Southern 138, Richmond 133, James Madison 92, Southern Utah 82, Massachusetts 77, Florida A&M 74, Jackson State 27, Central Arkansas 27, Old Dominion 20, Sacramento State 18, Chattanooga 17, UC Davis 16, McNeese State 15, Northern Arizona 14, Elon 8, Eastern Kentucky 7, Weber State 7, Harvard 6, Yale 5, Colgate 5, Murray State 4, Illinois State 3, Rhode Island 3, Indiana State 2, Stony Brook 1.
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The ECAC Lambert Meadowlands Championship Subdivision Football Poll presented by FieldTurf traditionally was described as representing, "supremacy in the East." The final poll was released yesterday and here's how it turned out:ECAC Lambert Meadowlands Championship Subdivision Football Poll presented by FieldTurf
1. Delaware 12-3 180
2. Villanova 9-5 162
3. William & Mary 8-4 130
4. New Hampshire 8-5 128
5. Penn 9-1 106
6. Lehigh 10-3 98
7. James Madison 6-5 40
8. Richmond 6-5 38
9. Harvard 7-3 32
10. Robert Morris 8-3 30
Also receiving votes: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Yale Colgate.
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Kudos to the Dartmouth rugby team. From a story in the Daily Dartmouth:In an effort to show their appreciation for military troops during the holiday season, the Dartmouth men’s rugby team adopted an American military unit — Delta Troop of 1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry Regiment — currently stationed in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. The team will continue to foster the unit through the Americans Supporting Americans Adopt-a-Unit program, which matches teams and other organized groups with military troops serving in foreign countries.Players sent "care packages" to the troops that include snacks, magazines, wipes, a Dartmouth match jersey and a ball signed by the team. Helping organize the effort was Jack Boger '13, who spent last summer at the Officer Candidates School of the United States Marine Corps in Quantico, Va.
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Nice story in the Providence Journal a couple of days ago about Brown's Buddy Farnham rejoining the New England Patriots' practice team.If Farnham is lucky, he could end up like former Dartmouth tight end Adam Young '99, who got a ring as a member of the practice squad for the New York Giants when they played in Super Bowl XXXC in 2001. (New York Times story on Young.)
Adam Young, by the way, is a "famous American football player" and click on the link if you don't believe it.
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The tentative 2011 Brown schedule:Sept. 17 at Stony Brook
Sept. 24 at Harvard
Oct. 1 Rhode Island
Oct. 8 Holy Cross
Oct. 15 Princeton
Oct. 22 at Cornell
Oct. 29 Penn
Nov. 5 at Yale
Nov. 12 Dartmouth
Nov. 19 at Columbia
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