Going With the Flow

Teddy Reed
(Courtesy of Dartmouth)

This one caught me by surprise although I might have seen it coming. Graduating senior defensive lineman Teddy Reed has taken his game from the gridiron to the Dartmouth lacrosse field. In addition to his football prowess, the 6-foot-4, 280-pound defenseman was an All-Eastern Massachusettslax  all-star and All-Cape Ann League lacrosse player. Check out his lacrosse bio here.

Reed, chosen to the College Sports Madness All-Ivy third team prior to last football season, finished the year with 27 tackles and was second on the squad with 3.5 tackles for loss and second with 2.5 sacks.

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Also on the lacrosse roster is junior Evan Bloom, who proved to be a ballhawking defensive back with the junior varsity football team last fall.

Dartmouth, which dropped its opener at home against Colgate on Saturday, 13-10, plays host to Vermont this afternoon.

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Among the names floated on the message boards when Cornell was looking for a head football coach after the departure of Kent Austin for the CFL was that of Jim Hofher, a 1979 Big Red alum and the most successful Cornell coach since Jack Musick in the late '60's and early '70s. One of the questions surrounding Hofher was, could Cornell afford him? Following his stint at Cornell (45-35 overall, 33-23 Ivy from 1990-'97) he'd been an assistant at North Carolina and Syracuse and then head coach at Buffalo for five years. His most recent stop was at Delaware, which he left to become assistant head coach and receivers coach at Nevada.

The Reno Gazette-Journal reports that Hofher will be paid a relatively modest $131,225 next year.

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Princeton has announced that it will be holding its "Pro Day" on March 20. (link)

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Dartmouth alum and Hanover resident C. Everett Koop has died at age 96. Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine referred to Koop as America's Family Doctor in a story about his passing and ABC News called him the "Rock Star" surgeon general. The New York Times has an exhaustive look at one of the giants of our time.

Koop, by the way, used to own a little red farmhouse here on the shoulder of Moose Mountain. We still refer to it as "the Koop House."