Incoming QB Recognized

Incoming Dartmouth quarterback Thomas Militello has been ranked No. 16 overall in the list of St. Louis Post-Dispatch Super 30 players drawn from the 200-plus high schools in the St. Louis area. He's in a group that includes recruits headed to schools like Oklahoma, Michigan, Missouri and Oklahoma State among others.

Find the full listing here and Militello's capsule here. Militello will make his official visit to Dartmouth this weekend.

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The Special Olympics Winter Games were held at the Dartmouth Skiway Saturday. From the Daily Dartmouth:

Garrett Schmidt ’15 was one of 20 freshmen from the Dartmouth football team who volunteered at the Games.

“I was a cheerer, so I made my way from event to event cheering for the athletes,” he said. “I had a great time.”

Schmidt’s teammates Keith Hamren ’15 and Ben Spiritos ’15 were team ambassadors for the Upper Valley Hawks and walked in the opening parade with the athletes, including Dartmouth Dining Services employees who Hamren and Spiritos knew from preseason, Spiritos said.

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The Ivy League will have a couple of players in the Super Bowl. From the Ivy site:

Former Ancient Eight standouts Kevin Boothe (Cornell) and Zak DeOssie (Brown) are once again heading to the Super Bowl with the Giants. A sixth-year NFL veteran, Boothe played in all 19 games this season, starting in nine during the regular season and all three in the postseason. DeOssie, a two-time Pro Bowl selection, has been a special teams mainstay for New York at long snapper.

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Three Harvard assistants have followed Tony Reno to Yale. The Harvard Crimson reports. Switch allegiance are the former Crimson wide receivers, offensive line and defensive line coaches.

Green Alert Take: Don't think the Crimson empire is unraveling. Last year four coaches left.

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The always-worth-reading TigerBlog offers up a column on Princeton freshman Chuck Dibilio suffering a stroke. Yesterday's Morning Call said he is making "considerable improvement."

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The Oregonian has a back-and-forth with various sources on whether head coach Chip Kelly, the former New Hampshire (and Columbia) assistant will be jumping to the Tampa Bay Bucs.

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A writer on the Holy Cross message board offered up the following quote that resonated with me when the sad news broke yesterday morning out of State College:

"When The Almighty lays his hands on someone, Sir, I take my hands off."

Thomas Hart Benton
Missouri senator, 1820-1850