Delay of Game (Or Practice)

Midterms, cold weather and the short turnaround from yesterday afternoon's scrimmaging led Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens to move this morning's scheduled 7 a.m. practice to next Friday. The Big Green will now close out spring practice with sessions next Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, with the Green-White game Saturday morning. Full coverage of each session will appear nightly on BGA.

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A Cincinnati Bengals blogger writes that Dartmouth grad Reggie Williams '76 was one of the best draft picks in team history. (link)

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Former Dartmouth and NFL quarterback Jeff Kemp '81 will be the guest speaker at a Tennessee prayer breakfast. (link)

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Harvard radio will provide coverage of the Crimson's spring scrimmage tomorrow evening. From a WHRB blog posting:

Although it has been a relatively tame spring, there are several storylines to watch, from the race for the backup quarterback role behind Collier Winters to the emergence of new starters along the offensive line.

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Columbia's spring game is under the lights tonight in New York City.

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Yale's Be The Match bone marrow registry, started by retired football coach Larry Ciotti, added almost 900 potential donors to the list.

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With the UMass football move to the Mid-American Conference, New Hampshire and Maine are the last two New England schools in the Colonial Athletic Conference. Although it meant a drop in the level of football, Rhode Island's impending move from the CAA to the Northeast Conference is looking smarter and smarter according to a story in the Providence Journal. From the Projo:

"What we did,” (URI athletic director Thorr) Bjorn said, “was focused on continuing to play football. The fear I had was that the teams we were losing, Hofstra and Northeastern, along with additional budget cuts, could put our program at risk.”

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As a Massachusetts native who was an assistant at Boston University and head coach at Maine, Buddy Teevens has more than a passing familiarity with the old Yankee Conference, which morphed into the northern part of the CAA. Asked about the UMass move yesterday Teevens had this to say:

“I’m happy for UMass and it’s nice to have another major college football program in the state. But for the New Hampshires, the Maines, and the Rhode Islands it just gets harder and harder. It’s one less opponent that you can schedule.

“I went through it when I was at Tulane trying to get into a conference, Conference USA and all that. Guys are jumping and you are the odd man out. It’s tough."

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Budget woes have men's and women's fencing, wrestling and women's skiing facing the axe at Brown according to the Daily Herald. In case you are wondering, Dartmouth is currently the only Ivy League school that does not have women's varsity fencing and one of two not to have men's fencing or wrestling.

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Imagine this. A talented high school wide receiver goes to a school that regularly draws more than 100,000 fans for football games but chooses to play lacrosse instead of football. He graduates as an all-conference lacrosse player and then decides to feed his football Jones by using his final fall of athletic eligibility as a grad student at a school that drew 1,277 for its final home game. He catches just 12 passes in his only season of college football but now finds himself being swarmed by NFL scouts. Stop imagining. It's a true story. NJ.com writes about Chris Hogan's journey from Penn State laxer to NFL prospect out of that noted football powerhouse Monmouth College. From the story:

I asked the Browns guy how he had heard of him,” said Hogan’s agent, Art Weiss. “He told me, ‘Everybody’s heard of this guy.’ ”