Return Of The Bullet

A Louisville-area running back is pictured in a Dartmouth football T-shirt in a story about his college prospects. From a News and Tribune story about Floyd Central standout Kyle Bramble:

And that Dartmouth football shirt he was wearing? It’s not so much because he’s a fan of them, but rather because Dartmouth is a fan of his. Dartmouth coach Robert Blackman has made it clear that if he decided tomorrow he wanted to play for the college, they’d love to have him.

The Bullet always was one heckuva recruiter and it would appear nothing has changed 41 years after he left Dartmouth ;-)

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Incoming freshman Kirby Schoenthaler's contributions to the turnaround of the Bartlesville football program get a mention in a story about the head coach of the Oklahoma high school leaving for another job.

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Bloomberg writes about rules changes in the Ivy League:

The Ivy League will suspend football players for intentional helmet hits and limit full-contact practices this season to prevent concussions.

Teams can’t have more than two full-contact practices each week during the season, down from the National Collegiate Athletic Association maximum of five, the league said in a statement. Full-contact practices during spring practice will be reduced to seven from the current Ivy League limit of eight, and a new rule will allow players to practice in pads during both parts of summer two-a-day sessions just once.

Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim was a co-chairman of the committee formed last December.

The New York Times has a story here. If there is a story on the Ivy League website at this hour I can't seem to find it. Maybe later. UPDATE: It's now on the Ivy League site here.

Green Alert Take: The change in full-contact practices won't bring any change at Dartmouth where there has been virtually no full-contact practicing at all during the season. The Big Green hasn't hit in both double sessions since Buddy Teevens returned as coach, and the full allotment of full-contact days wasn't used in the last preseason. (The decision not to hit during the week was intended to limit injury and the 2010 Big Green was probably more injury-free than any Dartmouth team recent years.)

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For a decade or so from 1995 on Michele Robinson was the smiling face at the front desk of the Dartmouth football offices and mom-away-from-home for hundreds of Big Green players. Michele, who moved over to the Office of Residential Life in 2005 and then on to Student Accessibility Services, will be retiring from the college at the end of the month. Former players who would like to send a note to a very special person can do so at michele dot m dot robinson at Dartmouth dot edu (Sorry for the cryptic address but even with just one week left on her job she doesn't need to get junk email in the unlikely event her address is "harvested" here.)