Draft Names

The danger of putting too much credence in NFL draft sites on the Internet was covered in a BGA blog post last summer. Don't say you weren't warned.

With that out of the way, can you name the two Dartmouth players who are listed as prospects by NFLdraftscout.com? OK, defensive end Charles Bay was a gimme. The other? Longsnapper Shane Peterlin.

Bay and Peterlin are two of 26 Ivy Leaguers who show up on the NFLdraftscout.com site. Keeping in mind that Brown's David Howard last year was the first Ivy Leaguer to be drafted since 2006, here's the list:

Brown
QB Kyle Newhall-Caballero

Columbia
FB Andrew Kennedy
ILB Alex Gross
WR Adam Mehrer

Cornell
SS Dempsey Quinn
CB Emani Fenton

Dartmouth
DE Charles Bay
LS Shane Peterlin

Harvard
QB Andrew Hatch
FS Collin Zych
OT Brent Osborne
RB Gino Gordon
WR Chris Lorditch
TE Nicolai Schwarzkopf

Penn
K Andrew Samson
OT Jared Mollenbeck
OLB Brian Levine
OLB Zach Heller
RB Michael DiMaggio
C Joseph D'Orazio
SS Josh Powers

Princeton
WR Trey Peacock
OLB Steven Cody
LS Harry Flaherty

Yale
TE Chris Blohm
OLB Sean Williams

(If you go to another link on the NFLdraftscout.com page you'll find a bizarre list of Ivy League names that very much needs to be vetted.)

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As long as we are on the subject ...

Ivy League draft picks since 2000:
2010 Brown DT David Howard, Titans, R-7
2007 Brown LS Zak DeOssie, Giants, R-4
2006 Cornell OG Kevin Boothe, Raiders, R-6
2005 Harvard QB Ryan Fitzpatrick, Rams, R-7
2004 Yale TE Nate Lawrie, Buccaneers, R-6
2004 Dartmouth TE Casey Cramer, Buccaneers, R-7
2002 Penn OT Jeff Hatch, Giants, R-3
2001 Yale S Than Merrill, Buccaneers, R-7
2001 Yale TE Eric Johnson, 49ers, R-7
2001 Princeton OT Dennis Norman, Seahawks, R- 7
2000 Harvard LB Isaiah Kacyvenski, Seahawks, R-4

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Turns out rumors of an Oct. 1 Holy Cross game at New Hampshire this fall were greatly exaggerated. Make that: They were wrong.

UNH "released" its schedule this week and the Wildcats will have a bye that day. Their FBS game will be at Toledo on Sept. 1 and their only Patriot League game will be at Lehigh one week later. Their other non-conference game is against Central State from Wilberforce, Ohio.

Green Alert Take: If the Dartmouth program is truly on the rise and UNH is leveling off a bit (at least from the days of Ricky Santos and David Ball) maybe the time has come for the Big Green to finish out its contract with the Wildcats and then make some determination about future games in the series. I mean, UNH is playing a Division II team from Wilberforce, Ohio and Dartmouth is playing at that noted traditional rival Sacred Heart this fall when Hanover and Durham are 99 miles apart? It's getting kind of silly.

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Sad news that slipped by earlier this month that Sean Maher '83, co-captain of the 1982 Dartmouth team, died of tongue cancer on Feb. 6. There's a story with photos of Sean with his nine children here and a website that had been set up to help him here. Maher, who came to Dartmouth from St. Thomas Academy in Minnesota, was the Big Green's leading rusher in 1981.