The numbers are outstanding, the last name and high school familiar. Check out this junior year highlight video for 6-foot-3, 190-pound football standout Wyatt Schmidt of Minnesota's St. Thomas Academy. A talented hockey player, he also gets a very nice review in this US Hockey Report story. Wyatt is the younger brother of Dartmouth senior Foley Schmidt.•
Norries Wilson, relieved of his duties as Columbia football coach after the 2011 season, will be the new running backs coach at Rutgers as reported in the Newark Star-Ledger.•
Harvard has released its 2012 football schedule and it features six home games. The Sept. 15 contest against San Diego seems to promise the Crimson will be heading to the West Coast in the near future. Here's the schedule:Sept. 15, San Diego, 1 p.m.
Sept. 22, at Brown*, TBA
Sept. 28, Holy Cross, 7 p.m.
Oct. 6, Cornell*, 1 p.m.
Oct. 13, Bucknell, 1 p.m.
Oct. 20, at Princeton*, TBA
Oct. 26, at Dartmouth*, 5 p.m.
Nov. 3, Columbia*, 1 p.m.
Nov. 10, at Penn*, TBA
Nov. 17, Yale* noon
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Speaking of Harvard, the Crimson has a story headlined The Rise of Harvard Basketball that gives some background on how one of the Ivy League's basketball stragglers became a powerhouse. The story does not shy away from the recruiting allegations leveled by the New York Times in 2008.•
Speaking of Harvard basketball, another story in the Crimson notes that . . .By clinching the Ivy League Basketball title this past weekend, Harvard became the fifth school in the Ancient Eight to claim both the basketball and football crowns in the same year.The other schools: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn and yes, Dartmouth, which turned the trick in 1959, its last Ivy League championship season on the men's hardwood.
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Yesterday's BGA blog note on the men's basketball team now having the longest dry spell since appearing in the NCAA's raised the question of which Ivy League school has gone the longest since appearing in the hockey NCAA's. Here's the full list of ECAC Hockey teams and their most recent NCAA appearance:Yale 2011
Union 2011
RPI 2011
Cornell 2010
Princeton 2009
Clarkson 2008
St. Lawrence 2007
Harvard 2006
Colgate 2005
Quinnipiac 2002
Brown 1993
Dartmouth 1980
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The Big Green will try to take another step toward playing in the NCAA's for the first time in more than three decades this weekend when it plays a best-of-three quarterfinal series at Cornell. Dartmouth Now has a story about the program, which can boast the most players in the NHL of any ECAC Hockey school.•
Speaking of winter sports, Dartmouth enters the second day of the NCAA skiing championships atop the scoreboard as the Big Green bids for its second national championship on the snow in six years. For a list of former NCAA ski champions, click here.
