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Science Daily is one of the media outlets reporting on a study about head impacts appearing in Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The author of the study is at Dartmouth, and for once not all the news is bad. From the report:"The good news is that overall there were few differences in the test results between the athletes in contact sports and the athletes in non-contact sports," said study author Thomas W. McAllister, MD, of The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in Lebanon, N.H. "But we did find that a higher percentage of the contact sport athletes had lower scores than would have been predicted after the season on a measure of new learning than the non-contact sport athletes."And . . .
"These results are somewhat reassuring, given the recent heightened concern about the potential negative effects of these sports," he said. "Nevertheless, the findings do suggest that repetitive head impacts may have a negative effect on some athletes."
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Former Dartmouth football player Michael Tree '13 was crowned Mr. Dartmouth over a small field that included former teammate Aaron Limonthas '12. The Dartmouth reports.
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Dartmouth is one of three Ivies and Holy Cross who have been taking a look at a 5-foot-11 Florida quarterback according to this story.
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Yale has revealed its recruiting class for football and it does indeed include intriguing Canadian transfer running back Tyler Varga.New (or nearly new) coaches getting such housewarming gifts isn't unusual at Yale. After a 1-9 first year Jack Siedlecki got Air Force tailback Rashad Bartholomew and Stanford safety Thad Merrill in the same year and one season later won an Ivy League title. More recently, Tom Williams got quarterback Pat Witt from Nebraska in his first year. They did not win an Ivy title. Now new coach Tony Reno welcomes Varga, who looks like a "load" in his highlight video.
