Accompanying last night's Big Green Alert premium story on quarterback Conner Kempe were these pictures I shot yesterday of All-Ivy League receiver Tim McManus, left, and freshman brother Ryan, who Kempe humorously – but accurately – called the "T-Mac clone." Can you see it?
From a Yale Daily News story:
This season, the team has ordered T-shirts with the words “Armed and Dangerous” printed across the back. Williams said that, in the past, he has told his players that opposing teams should have to arm themselves against Yale football. Now, however, he believes that it is the Bulldogs who are armed, dangerous and ready to pursue an Ivy League championship.
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A little more out of Yale. Bloomberg reports on Bulldog offensive guard Jeff Marrs, who grew up on a 2,000-acre farm and went to auctioneering school at 14, conducting an auction that raised $24,650 for the Yale football program. link
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Buried in this story about Princeton starting the preseason is mention of an unnamed new defensive scheme.
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Columbia has a flashy new website that unfortunately doesn't work yet using the Google Chrome browser (at least on a Mac).
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The Sports Network offers up its Patriot League preview which pegs Week One opponent Colgate second and Week Five opponent Holy Cross third. (Defending champ Lehigh is picked first.)
Of Colgate, TSN writes:
The Raiders will run through, around and in every possible way against their opposition.Of Holy Cross, TSN writes:
After winning three of their final four games, to post a sixth straight winning season, the Crusaders believe they have enough talent to capture the league title . . .
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Holy Cross, by the way, is geeked up about its first-ever night football team against UMass on Sept. 1. They are turning it into quite an event on Mount St. James, even selling a special T-shirt commemorating the event. link
There's also a website called Fill Fitton Field whose mission is, "To assist the Holy Cross Athletic Department in achieving a specific goal: selling out Fitton Field for the game."
Hopefully there are equally innovate initiatives (say that three times fast) in the pipeline for Dartmouth's first-ever night game against Penn on Oct. 1.
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Back to Colgate, WKTV has a season preview of the Raider football team that doesn't spill any secrets:
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When I was studying journalism at Penn State wide receiver Jimmy Cefalo had just finished up a degree in the subject and I remember being told he was the first, or at least one of the first, football players ever to go through what was a demanding program. Today Cefalo, an NFL veteran, is a broadcaster in Miami. I bring that up because a current Penn State quarterback with a 3.89 GPA has won a $5,000 scholarship through the Jim Murray Memorial Foundation for a story he wrote on, you guessed it, Joe Paterno. link Sounds like the kid might have been a nice "get" for an Ivy League team.
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Lots to read on today's blog, huh? I've got to admit it was slim pickins' some days since spring as I tried to give you something to take your mind off work each day. Digging up stuff will start getting a lot easier with the season around the corner.
A few folks have suggested I take the blog and move it over to the premium site, and I'll admit as I try to make a go of BGA I've thought about it. (I take it as a backhanded compliment when readers say it's the best part of BGA). Anyway, thanks for helping make the time I spend on this every morning almost worthwhile ;-) .
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And finally, last night's TV weather projected the eye of Hurricane Irene heading up the Connecticut River. Like everyone else I'm hoping it somehow changes its mind about landfall and heads out into the Atlantic. But if it happens to come through here, it wouldn't be the first. An unnamed hurricane in 1938 did tremendous damage across New England. At the end of our road is a log cabin that along with several outbuildings was fashioned out of logs from trees blown down by that historic storm.
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