Former Dartmouth quarterback Alex Jenny '10 completed his Boston Marathon fundraising run yesterday in blistering heat.•
In his weekly column in the school paper Big Green receiver/defensive back Corey Vann explains that spring football is more important at Dartmouth because so many players are off campus in the winter. He writes:As a result, Dartmouth is, without question, a step behind the rest of the Ivy League when the football team returns to campus as a whole for Spring term — not in terms of athleticism, speed or strength, but rather in team cohesion, identity and togetherness. It is this void that makes spring ball for the Big Green that much more important. It is a time where we have to re-acclimate ourselves to the program, our teammates and the coaching staff.
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Our local daily has a story reporting that an effort by the Ivy League, Patriot League and others in the FCS to get the NCAA to reverse a ruling that would have prohibited games like the Vermont-New Hampshire Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl from being played on college campuses appears likely to be successful. Apparently there's still a possibility that the effort to repeal the ban could come up empty but there's optimism that the games will go on.•
Dartmouth football returns to the practice field late this afternoon and there will be full coverage of today's session later tonight on BGA Premium. Check the "top-o-the-blog" tonight.•
TigerBlog writes about a visit from Chuck Dibilio, Princeton's 1,000-yard rusher who suffered a stroke in January.•
Kudos to the Lehigh football team for joining in the bone marrow transplant effort. From a Lehigh story:The drive will have extra significance for someone else from the Lehigh Athletics’ family as Marilyn Hyncik, mother of former men’s basketball captain Adam, is in need of a bone marrow transplant and has been unable to find a match.
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From Rugby Magazine Sunday:Dartmouth College put away Princeton 50-3 Sunday to win the Ivy League playoffs, and secure a place in the national men’s college D1-AA playoffs.
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The Dartmouth reports the college will name its interim president to replace World Bank-bound Jim Yong Kim today.•
Had to shake my head about the PR appeal of that school in Cambridge yesterday after reading more than a few stories reporting that President Kim was "Harvard educated." Nowhere in this story, for example, or in numerous others did it mention that he happens to be a Brown graduate. It was up to the Brown Daily Herald to note that.
