A starting wide receiver for the Big Green football team in the fall, Bo Patterson brings speed and terrific outfield instincts to the squad and will try to catch up for lost time from the fall at the plate.Find Patterson's baseball bio here. His football bio is here. Patterson was Dartmouth's second-leading receiver as a freshman, catching 24 passes for 301 yards. He led the team in yards receiving per game (30.1) and tied for the team lead with two TD grabs.
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First the Patriot League adds scholarships. Now it looks as if the Pioneer Football League is going to offer something the Ivies can't if The Sports Network column is accurate. From the column:Continued growth across the FCS led to the playoffs expanding from 16 to 20 qualifiers for the 2010 season, but the number most have wanted for some time is 24. The FCS commissioners and presidents groups that have combined to champion the cause seemingly got a green light from NCAA president Mark Emmert the first week of January at the FCS championship in Frisco, Texas.And later in the piece . . .
The Ivy League and Southwestern Athletic Conference don't send their champions to the playoffs, but the Pioneer League desperately wants an automatic bid for its champion, and Emmert seems to realize the league has been getting the shaft while 10 other conferences claim one. Bracket expansion would send the PFL champ to the playoffs as well as increase the number of at-large bids from 10 to 13.The push for a 24-team tournament could see it happen starting in 2013.
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The Daily Pennsylvanian has a story reporting that only Brown spent less money on recruiting last year than Penn. According to the DP, Dartmouth is third from the bottom in recruiting expenditures. The numbers are drawn from the Office of Postsecondary Education Equity in Athletics Disclosure database. Here's the order of spending from most to least as shown in a Daily Pennsylvanian chart:- Princeton
- Columbia
- Harvard
- Yale
- Cornell
- Dartmouth
- Penn
- Brown
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The Brown Daily Herald reports that in addition to replacing its retiring president and athletic director, Brown will be . . .. . . cutting roughly 20 admission slots for recruited athletes, pumping $1.1 million into salary raises for coaches, designating about $52 million for facilities renovations and a significant enlargement of the athletics endowment, opening the new athletics facility in April and potentially ramping up a pilot program designed to encourage academic diversity among athletes.
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From a Yale Daily News retrospective on Calvin Hill, the former Bulldog and Dallas Cowboys great:(A) weekend in New Haven changed Hill’s attitude towards the Ancient Eight. During his stay, he attended a football game and watched the Bulldogs defeat Dartmouth, 14–7, in front of a crowd of 70,000 people at the Yale Bowl.
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With rugby (Sevens) coming to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 and the USA Men's Eagle Sevens coach Al Caravelli stepping down, could the coach who led the Big Green Sevens to the national championship last year be in line for the job? From Rugby Magazine:As far as potential coaching candidates that aren’t currently working within the program, there are a few names that seem likely.
At the top of the list is Alex Magleby, the 7s All American and Dartmouth coach and former 7s Eagle. Highly regarded, Mags won the 2011 Collegiate Rugby Championship with what could be classified as an underdog Dartmouth squad. USA is nothing if not an underdog on the IRB circuit.
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Davidson basketball's Jake Cohen, the 6-foot-10 brother of former Dartmouth quarterback Josh Cohen, has been selected by the media as the Southern Conference player of the year as a junior.•
Snow day in Hanover and it looks as if the kids got away with one again. By lunchtime of the first snow day this year That Certain Hanover High Senior (who doesn't like to drive and wouldn't drive in the snow on a dare) had driven off to play ice hockey on the local outdoor rink under bright blue skies.Because the wind up here on the mountain is howling it's hard to tell how much snow we got last night but it couldn't be much more than a couple of inches. While the forecast suggests we will be getting four or so more inches during the day, it's flurrying at best out there right now and doesn't look like it. We'll see if they made the right call. Either way, TCHHSS isn't complaining about the day off although he was hoping to be able to ski some powder after this.
