Friday, December 07, 2012

Names And Numbers

Top returning receivers next fall for each Ivy League team ranked by number of catches last year – with catches, yards, touchdowns and yards per catch:

Columbia
Sophomore Connor Nelligan - 62-636-0-10.3 ypc
Cornell
Junior Grant Gellatly - 61-940-5-15.4
Yale
Junior Cameron Sandquist - 55-597-2-10.9
Penn
Junior Conner Scott - 52-691-5-13.3
Dartmouth
Sophomore Ryan McManus - 42-664-2-15.8
Harvard
Junior Cameron Brate - 41-592-6-14.4
Brown*
Junior Jordan Evans - 40-452-2-11.3
Princeton
Junior Roman Wilson - 37-649-5-17.5

* Expected to petition for a fifth year is Brown's Tellef Lundevall, who had 72-718-3-10.0 last year.
The Beyond Sports College Network (BSN) has named 36 first-team All-Americans, 35 second-teamers, 35 third-teamers and 38 honorable-mention picks. Rather than take the easy way out and name those few who were not picked, here are the Ivy Leaguers who were:

First
Tight End Kyle Juszczyk, Harvard

Second
Tight End Cameron Brate, Harvard
Quarterback Colton Chapple, Harvard
Defensive Tackle Caraun Reid, Princeton

Third
Defensive End Mike Catapano, Princeton
Wide Receiver Luke Trasker, Cornell
Offesive Tackle JC Tretter, Cornell

Honorable Mention
Defensive Back AJ Cruz, Brown
Athlete (read: running back) Tyler Varga, Yale