Abuhoff, Schwieger Honored

Following up on Sunday's post about Dartmouth President Jim Kim's challenge at the annual football golf outing Saturday, a Certain Loyal Reader reports that just five long hitters were able to outdrive the president and take him for a dozen Pro V1 golf balls. Apparently the gathering heard about it after dinner ;-)

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The Consensus Draft Services website has named its Preseason FCS All-American teams and two Dartmouth players are among five Ivy Leaguers to win honorable-mention notice. (Thanks for the link.)

Tailback Nick Schwieger and two-spot honoree Shawn Abuhoff (defensive back and punt returner) represent the Big Green on the CDS team. Also named from the Ivy League were Yale quarterback Patrick Witt, Yale linebacker Jordan Haynes and Harvard defensive back Dan Minamide.

Not surprisingly, Colgate tailback Nate Eachus was chosen to the first team.

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By the way, Duke transfer lineman Tevin Hood apparently will not be attending Yale next year after all. The Portal 31 Yale football blog has the story.

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Incoming running back Cody Patch of nearby Lebanon is listed on the New Hampshire roster for the annual Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl all-star football game against Vermont that until the past several years was played at Dartmouth's Memorial Field.

Also on the New Hampshire roster is Micah Morton, a defensive back from Lebanon. Morton's dad, Craig '89, holds the Dartmouth record with 2,605 career receiving yards. Craig Morton averaged 18.9 yards per catch in his career including a whopping 24.2 yards per on 44 catches as a sophomore. Morton, who attended the NFL Combine and later played in the NFL's World League, is today a pastor in Lebanon.

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The Hanover High graduates are listed in our local paper this morning and no fewer than 18 of them are headed to Ivy League schools. In addition to Dartmouth they will be attending Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown and Cornell. If my math is correct, that's 35 kids, or roughly 10 percent, going on to Ivy League schools over the past two years.