He's an excellent cornerback, but even better on punt returns. He was the only FCS player to return three punts for touchdowns last season, averaging 17.2 yards per return while making The Sports Network/Fathead.com FCS All-America first team.
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The Daily Dartmouth has a story about incoming receiver Robbie Anthony, a transfer from Clemson. From the story:“It is safe to say that for a lot of guys on the team, school was not their first priority,” (Anthony) said. “At Clemson everyone jokes about being athlete-students instead of student-athletes, and I assume it will be hard to pick athletes out in a classroom at Dartmouth.”
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Incoming freshman receiver Bo Patterson of James Island, S.C., has added all-state baseball (link) and all-state basketball (link) to his all-state football resume.*
The Daily D follows up on Dartmouth's standing in the NCAA's Academic Progress Report. (link)*
Which non-Dartmouth QB would you most want to run your team?The Blogger platform has a lot of advantages but the format of its polls isn't one of them, so reading the results to this one is a little tricky. That being the case, here is how the quarterback poll over on the left looks as of 8:30 this morning:
- Penn's Billy Ragone, 33 percent
- Brown's Kyle Newhall-Caballero, 16 percent
- Harvard's Collier Winters, 14 percent
- Yale's Patrick Witt, 14 percent
- Columbia's Sean Brackett, 13 percent
- Princeton's Tommy Wornham, 5 percent
- Cornell's Jeff Mathews, 3 percent
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Charlie Grant, who played a year of jayvee football before opting for rugby, has been chosen as a Rugby Magazine All-America. (link)*
And finally, I got dragooned into umpiring one of our minor league baseball games last night and saw something that I've never seen at the youth level before: a coach in full uniform with the word COACH on the back of his shirt. Yikes.
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