Buddy Teevens (a head coach at Maine when he was 28) took over the first time at Dartmouth at age 30 and won two Ivy League titles in five years. Jake Crouthamel was 33 when he replaced Bob Blackman and proceeded to win Ivy League championships in each of his first three seasons at the helm.
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Dartmouth linebackers Michael Runger and Garrett Wymore have been named to the Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association (FCS ADA) Academic All-Star Team. From Dartmouth's release:
Football players from all FCS institutions are eligible for this honor. Each of the nominees were required to have a minimum GPA of 3.20 (on a 4.00 scale) in undergraduate study and have been a starter or key player with legitimate athletics credentials.
Runger, listed with a 3.76 GPA, and Wymore, listed with a 3.90 . . .
. . . were the only two Ivy League players among those selected from a candidate pool of 98 student-athletes.Five Patriot League players were chosen. For a look at the full team, click here.
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Here's an interesting one courtesy of Rick Bender, Dartmouth's director of sports publicity. Over the past decade, three positions have dominated the college's Academic All-Ivy football slots. With one exception, every selection has been a linebacker, tight end or wide receiver. The outlier was Scott Wedum, a fullback by name but a receiver by game, with 80 catches over his final two seasons.
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Score one for the smart guys. Do you realize that Stanford, Northwestern, Vanderbilt and Rice all won bowl games this year? And Duke may have lost, but the Blue Devils made it into a bowl, and that's worth noting as well.
