The top five Dartmouth seasons since the start of formal Ivy League play in 1956 for scoring margin:
1. 1970 – 311-42, plus-269
2. 1965 – 261-71, plus-200
3. 1969 – 282-99, plus-183
4. 1962 – 231-57, plus-174
5. 1996 – 275-104, plus-171
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A New York Times story writes about Yale quarterback Patrick Witt, his Rhodes Scholarship candidacy and an accusation of sexual assault. Jim Fuller of the New Haven Register's Portal 31 blog offers his thoughts on the Times story. The Yale Daily News also follows the story.•
The Boston Globe yesterday had a very interesting piece under the headline, Yale’s Tony Reno raids Harvard staff. The story ends this way:All that (Harvard coach Tim) Murphy would say was, “The game next fall should be interesting.’’
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The Washington Post has a story about the memorial service for Joe Paterno at Penn State yesterday. It was a moving ceremony highlighted by the remarks offered by his son Jay. You can see videos of the speakers including Jay here. I was particularly touched by the comments of Chris Marrone, a player I had never heard of whose career was ended early by injury. He's the fourth video down and it's well worth watching to understand the impact Joe Paterno had on many lives.•
Now US News & World Report is out with The Most Popular National Universities, a ranking based on admission "yield." It is ridiculously easy to poke holes in the survey – it would have been torn to shreds in my journalism school statistics class – but it will have people talking. Here's how it purports to rank the Ivies in terms of popularity:- Harvard
- Yale
- Penn
- Princeton
- Columbia
- Brown
- Dartmouth
- Cornell
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And finally, Wednesday's story in the Daily Dartmouth under the headline, Student accuses frat of hazing violations has started to accumulate a lengthy string of comments. The D also has an editorial board explanation of its handling of the story here.
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