Click here to read a story mentioning that Savage is one of three players who "have signed an athletics grant-in-aid and will transfer to the University of Richmond." (Italics are mine.)
It has been mentioned before in this electronic precinct, but back when I was the Dartmouth beat reporter I wrote several stories about Big Green graduates who, like Savage, used their final season of eligibility at other schools. Several were skiers. Several were runners. One was a soccer player. To a person the "transfer" nomenclature grated on them because they believe it suggested they were unhappy in Hanover and that wasn't the case. Because the Ivy League does not allow graduate students to compete in intercollegiate athletics they had no alternative but to move on if they wanted to use their last season of eligibility.
It doesn't happen all that frequently but Dartmouth had a high-profile grad competing elsewhere last fall. Alexi Pappas '12 finished eighth in the NCAA cross country championships while helping Oregon with the national title. Like Savage, she was described as a "transfer" in her Oregon bio.
Brown's TJ Popolizio played soccer last fall for national champion Indiana and the Indiana Daily Student took no chances, describing him both ways, under the headline: Grad student transfers to IU soccer team.
While Pappas and Popolizio were on national championship teams, there are no guarantees for Savage next fall. There have been Ivy League football players who finished careers elsewhere with a bang. Columbia quarterback Joe Winters threw for 523 yards and three touchdowns in his final year in New York and then put up Arena League numbers at Missouri-Rolla, passing for 3,724 yards and 35 touchdowns in 2006, including six TD passes in a win over Morehead State. (Find a story about his transfer here.)
On the flip side, Kory Gedin, twice a second-team All-Ivy League selection as a Penn linebacker (after transferring from North Carolina) wrapped up his career at Wagner where he appeared in six games and made 15 tackles in 2007.
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A 6-4, 253-pound projected defensive end from Florida has chosen Navy over Dartmouth according to the Orlando Sentinel. The paper quotes Carter Shipley:"Yes, those were my final two and it was big-time football at Navy, obviously Division I, and I was drawn more toward that."Dartmouth is, in fact, Division I, but you get the idea.
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From The Sacramento Bee:Jesuit lineman Garrett Strohmaier took a recruiting trip to Dartmouth last week and also hosted new UC Davis coach Ron Gould on Sunday. He is weighing offers.
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And finally, WCAX TV in Burlington, Vt., had a report on new Dartmouth President Philip Hanlon '77 . . .WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-
