Friends

If you haven't stumbled across it already, Dartmouth alums and fans might want to take a look at the new Friends of Dartmouth Football website. Designed to be fast-loading and easy to navigate, the still-evolving site features links to The Green Line newsletter (pictured below) as well as general information about the Friends group, and how to support Dartmouth football and Dartmouth athletics.

On the Friends home page currently is a short look at the recent Ivy Football Association dinner in New York City featuring a photo slide show from the dinner as well as link to Dartmouth honoree Murry Bowden's prepared remarks for the evening.

Among other things, the 2003 College Football Hall of Fame inductee had this to say:

I feel a deep sense of gratitude to my teammates who in my formative years shaped my view and understanding of life, taught me to enjoy life to its fullest, reinforced the value of hard work, challenged me and inspired me to be the best that I could be.

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The Harvard Crimson has an opinion piece critical of the "Likely Letter." The Crimson Staff writes:

... (T)he institution of likely letters—if it must be kept—should be revised to give equal weight to a broader range of talented applicants, not just primarily athletes.

Green Alert Take: When hotshot cello players have to gamble a scholarship offer to Berklee School of Music against the possibility of being turned down by Harvard, that will be the right course to take.

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A regular reader sent along a link to a D3football.com piece on football attendance in Division III last fall. The St. John's Johnnies led the way with 8,651 fans per game boosted by a turnout of 16,421 for their game against St. Thomas, "the largest known reported attendance number in Division III football history."

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Hard as it is to believe this morning when it was 1-below zero as Cooper the Wonder Dog and I walked out to fetch the morning paper, Dartmouth men's and women's lacrosse teams will be opening at home Saturday. Fortunately the meteorologists are calling for 26 degrees Saturday with just a 5 mph breeze. The men's team is playing host to Colgate while the women will entertain New Hampshire.

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And finally, I (almost) promise this will be the last link to the Penn State THON, but it is kind of fun to watch the Nittany Lion football players dancing, including quarterback Rob Bolden (1) and a couple of guys doing MC Hammer impressions.

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And finally II, this is wicked good, something you might not understand if you aren't from New England. (Thanks, Mrs. BGA ;-)