Skate with a Date

Dartmouth football players took part in Skate with a Date at Occom Pond on campus Tuesday night. The evening featured pizza, soda, cookies, s'mores and a return to glory by former high school ice hockey standouts Tim McManus and Foley Schmidt, who showed their game to a few players from the women's ice hockey team that just knocked off No. 2 Cornell. (Thanks for the photo ;^)

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Saw the Patriot League overall record against Ivy teams on another site and thought the numbers were interesting. From College Football Data Warehouse:

All-Time Ivy League records against Patriot League teams:

Yale: 86-22-3 (.788)
Penn: 151-44-6 (.766)
Princeton: 137-48-6 (.733)
Cornell: 127-73-7 (.630)
Harvard: 70-43-3 (.616)
Brown: 69-71-10 (.493)
Dartmouth: 57-63-5 (.476)
Columbia: 40-83-6 (.333)

All Time Patriot League records against Ivy League teams:

Colgate: 150-139-17 (.518)
Holy Cross: 106-156-9 (.437)
Lehigh: 65-136-5 (.328)
Lafayette: 70-159-12 (.315)
Bucknell: 36-97-3 (.276)
Fordham: 18-48-0 (.273)
Georgetown: 2-20-1 (.109)

Some surprising numbers there. I wouldn't have believed, given this goes all the way back and the school's historic strength on the gridiron, that Dartmouth would have the second-worst record against teams currently in the Patriot League.

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The Portal 31 blog has more Yale recruiting information, including a bit on Tevin Hood, the potential defensive line transfer from Duke.

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A former Brown standout "swaps NFL dream for (rugby) sevens" according to a New Zealand rugby site.

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The Fighting Sioux may have a fighting chance. From Monday's Grand Forks Herald:

On a 65-28 vote, the (North Dakota) House approved House Bill 1263, which states UND athletic teams shall be known as the Fighting Sioux. Neither UND nor the state Board of Higher Education may take action to discontinue the use of the nickname or logo.

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From the Wall Street Journal:

... (D)escription of a game-sealing touchdown in the New York Jets' playoff upset of the New England Patriots:

"Mr. Ryan…lumbered down the sideline to hug Mr. Greene, at which point Mr. Sanchez jumped on Mr. Ryan's back."

Next time it might well read:

"Ryan …lumbered down the sideline to hug Greene, at which point Sanchez jumped on Ryan's back."

Notice the difference? Read the WSJ explanation.

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The Princeton sprint football team can take it as a good omen that the Cal Tech men's basketball team has broken a conference losing streak that the New York Times story wrote was "believed to have stretched to 310 games." On the other hand, the Cal Tech baseball team has dropped 412 consecutive league games and 170 overall.

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The latest forecast from Accuweather calls for 5.8 inches of snow tomorrow, which could play havoc with home lacrosse games slated for Saturday.