I've met several times with a couple of local fellows working on a football movie and that sent me scurrying to watch once again the film 8 Ivy League Football and America. Check out this short, entertaining excerpt from the film and if you are interested in purchasing a copy, the 114-minute film is available from PBS for $14.99. (In the interest of full disclosure I spent a lot of time with the New York-based director, who still jokes about a night he spent with us here in the wilds of Moose Mountain.)
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Could Rutgers have been an early member of the Ivy League? Might have happened as this 1953 Harvard Crimson story relates. (Thanks for the link.)
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Earlier this week Runner's World had a story about Dartmouth distance coach Mark Coogan's hat trick in the 3,000 meters at indoor NCAA's.
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If Sports Illustrated is in need of a Sign of the Apocalypse it might want to look to Towson University. From the Baltimore Sun:Towson University president Maravene Loeschke was escorted by several police officers into a meeting with the school’s baseball and men’s soccer teams Friday morning to tell players she had decided to cut their sports.Whoa. Police officers?
The story also includes this:
Baseball players wore black tape over the word Towson on their jerseys Friday afternoon when they opened Colonial Athletic Association play with a loss to Delaware.Hard to blame them.
