Phil Steele's College Football Preview magazine has introduced an FCS (nee I-AA) magazine this year. Find out more and how to buy it online here.Here is Phil Steele's preseason All-Ivy team:
FIRST TEAM
Offense
QB Patrick Witt, Sr, Yale
RB Nick Schwieger, Sr, Dartmouth
RB Treavor Scales, Jr, Harvard
WR Gio Christodoulou, Sr, Yale
WR Adam Chrissis, Sr, Harvard
WR Alex Tounkara, Sr, Brown
TE John Gallagher, Sr, Dartmouth
OL Jeff Adams, Sr, Columbia
OL Ryan O'Neill, Sr, Dartmouth
OL Greg Van Roten, Sr, Penn
OL Kevin Murphy, Sr, Harvard
OL Austen Fletcher, Sr, Dartmouth
Defense
DL Brandon Copeland, Jr Penn
DL Josh Martin, Jr, Columbia
DL Josue Ortiz, Sr, Harvard
DL Clayton McBrath, Sr, Brown
LB Erik Rask, Sr, Penn
LB Jordan Haynes, Sr, Yale
LB Steve Cody, Sr, Princeton
DB AJ Cruz, Jr, Brown
DB Shawn Abuhoff, Sr, Dartmouth
DB Stephen Payton, Sr, Brown
DB Matthew Hanson, Sr, Harvard
Special Teams
K Patrick Jacob, Sr, Princeton
P Joe Cloud, Jr, Princeton
KR Chris Smith, Jr, Yale
PR Shawn Abuhoff, Sr, Dartmouth
SECOND TEAM
Offense
QB Billy Ragone, Jr, Penn
RB Brandon Colavita, Jr, Penn
RB Alex Thomas, Sr, Yale
WR Jimmy Saros, Sr, Brown
WR Chris Smith, Jr, Yale
WR Michael Reilly, Sr, Dartmouth
TE Luke Nawcocki, Sr, Penn
OL Jack Geiger, Sr, Brown
OL Michael Pinciotti, Jr, Penn
OL Kevin DeMaio, Sr, Princeton
OL Gabe Fernandez, Sr, Yale
OL Colin Kruger, Sr, Yale
Defense
DL Mike Catapano, Sr, Princeton
DL Benjamin Graeff, Sr, Harvard
DL Jared Sholly, Sr, Penn
DL Caraun Reid, Jr, Princeton
DL/LB Zack Imhoff, Sr, Cornell
LB Andrew Starks, Jr, Princeton
LB Luke Hussey, Sr, Dartmouth
LB Alex Norman, Jr, Harvard
DB Matt Hamscher, Sr, Penn
DE Drew Baldwin, Sr, Yale
DB Garrett Waggoner, Jr, Dartmouth
DB JB Andreassi, Sr, Dartmouth
Special Teams
K Alex Norocea, So, Brown
P Nathan Lovett, Sr, Brown
KR Shawn Abuhoff, Sr, Dartmouth
PR Luke Tasker, Jr, Cornell
Steele's Ivy League prediction:
1. Harvard
2. Yale
3 (t) Dartmouth
3 (t) Penn
5. Brown
6. Columbia
7. Cornell
8. Princeton
Credit to Jake Novak of Roar Lions Roar for digging up the team and the numbers of players from each school who made the first or second team:
Dartmouth 11
Yale 9
Brown 8
Harvard 8
Penn 8
Princeton 7
Columbia 2
Cornell 2
Interesting that Dartmouth's returning first-team All-Ivy receiver Tim McManus (an honorable-mention pick as a sophomore) doesn't get a mention. Could it be that Phil Steele's thinks he will be playing quarterback this fall?
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An interesting note in this morning's local daily regarding the first night game at Memorial Field:Hope for a gridiron tussle after dark remains, but a date and opponent have yet to be nailed down., Dartmouth Athletic Director Harry Sheehy said Tuesday. He'd like to see this season's Ivy League opener with Pennsylvania on Oct. 1 be that initial night game, but "negotiations are ongoing" and a decision isn't likely until next week.Green Alert Take: Should Penn veto a night game (perhaps to avoid a late-night bus ride home, perhaps being wary of facing a Dartmouth team that will play as if its hair is on fire in its first-ever night game before a raucous and partisan crowd) potential opponents for a night game this fall would be Colgate, Columbia, Cornell and Princeton. With Columbia being Homecoming and plans already in place for that day, and with Cornell and Princeton being in chilly November, the likeliest option apart from Penn would be the opener against Colgate on Sept. 17. But that's four days before classes begin and to play the first night game without students on campus would hardly be ideal.
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If you've been around the Dartmouth football scene the past several years you probably could have figured this out yourself but the Dartmouth-Harvard preseason game is tentatively slated for the afternoon of Friday, Sept. 9. Could be a 1 p.m. kickoff. Stay tuned.Oh, and if you are new to all of this, rather than a situational preseason scrimmage, Dartmouth and Harvard play what is in essence a regular game with kickoffs, punts and the whole, um, nine yards. Harvard even had the video scoreboard going last year.
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The Daily Dartmouth has a story about the Ivy League rules changes regarding full-contact practices and suspensions for hitting with the head. Neither linebacker Garrett Wymore nor center Austen Fletcher seems nonplussed by the changes.*
A columnist from the Virginian-Pilot has an interesting take on the initiative in a piece under the headline, Ivy League has a no-brainer.At the top, Bob Molinaro writes:
Asking young men to risk concussions on the practice fields of Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard or Princeton would be a potential waste of our nation's greatest natural resources. That's why we have big state schools and football factories.As you might have guessed with that line, he's setting you up. Later he writes:
Seriously, though, it's unclear why the Ivies thought it necessary for a committee to make recommendations limiting full-contact practices to only two a week during the season when college coaches across the country have voluntarily been reducing the intensity of blocking and tackling drills.And ...
Along with many other coaches, (Norfolk State coach Pete) Adrian and (Old Dominion Coach Boddy) Wilder have already adjusted to those concerns, but without the fanfare the Ivy League appears to be inviting.Green Alert Take: Someone I know who was seriously involved in the search for a new Ivy League executive director that culminated with the hiring of Robin Harris told me it was clear the Ivies wanted someone in that position who would help the conference take a leadership role in establishing NCAA policy. No question that's what the Ivy League was trying to do with the initiative.
Green Alert Take II: Now if they'd just let their football champion go on to the postseason – like every other Ivy League sport – and prove that they play real football in this conference despite the rules maybe the rest of the nation will stop clucking its tongue at the Ancient Eight and really pay attention.
And yes, I'm back up on my soap box and I'm not getting off.
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Dartmouth and Athletic Director Harry Sheehy have kicked off Dartmouth Peak Performance, an " initiative to help students achieve the highest levels of physical, intellectual and personal growth during their Dartmouth careers.
Said Sheehy:
DP2 will serve as an umbrella for the integration of existing services and increased resources targeted at helping our student-athletes achieve the highest levels of physical, intellectual and personal growth during their Dartmouth careers. Each area of performance -- academic, athletic and personal -- will be bolstered by the collaborative efforts of many professionals across campus.There are five video interviews about the initiative on the DP2 home page.
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Dartmouth has received the OK to build a new softball facility on Chase Field back where the radio antenna has been located.Green Alert Take: Hopefully the much-delayed plan to replace the decaying home football stands has now moved up the to-do list.
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And finally, That Certain Hanover High Grad is headed to the doctor for a second look at her ailing knee. She's training as much as she can by running in the pool and using the elliptical machine but the poor kid is beside herself as the cross country season approaches. Also, that Certain Hanover High Senior (to be) was the all-star catcher for my championship Green Machine Little League team. My all-star catcher from last year's championship Green Machine team has taken up golf this year so I set a round up for the two of them today at Hanover Country Club. I'll be interested to hear how it goes.And finally II: Both kids will be struggling with the heat today. Between their Northern New England roots and the Scandinavian heritage they inherited from me they aren't used to it being hot – and it could top 95 degrees this afternoon around here. Heck, I'm not used to it either. Time to head to the basement to write ;-)
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