FIVE-YEAR AVERAGES:
Number Of Penalties Per Season
1. Penn 47.2
2. Princeton 47.6
3. Dartmouth 54.0
4. Columbia 54.8
5. Yale 61.0
5. Brown 61.0
7. Cornell 61.2
8. Harvard 66.8
Penalty Yards Per Game
1. Penn 42.7
2. Princeton 45.3
3. Columbia 45.8
4. Dartmouth 48.6
5. Cornell 51.9
6. Brown 53.3
7. Harvard 54.6
8. Yale 54.7
Most penalty yards by an Ivy team over the past five years: 673, Brown in 2011
Fewest penalty yards by an Ivy team over the past five years: 291, Penn 2009
Most penalties by an Ivy team in one season over the past five years: 78, Harvard in 2012
Fewest penalties by an Ivy team in one season over the past five years: 34, Penn in 2009
What conclusions can we draw from the numbers? Not many it would seem. The two most-successful Ivy League teams of recent years were the least-penalized (Penn) and the most penalized (Harvard).
Dartmouth Penalties Last Five Years (final record)
2008 – 55 for 437 yards (0-10)
2009 – 62 for 478 yards (2-8)
2010 – 54 for 479 yards (6-4)
2011 – 44 for 381 yards (5-5)
2012 – 55 for 557 yards (6-4)
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Small college draft evaluator Josh Buchanan has a list on The Sports Network site of who he sees as the 10 top-rated FCS prospects in the upcoming NFL draft and two Ivy Leaguers make the cut.
Ranked No. 9 and projected to go somewhere in the fourth-to-fifth round is Harvard fullback/H-back Kyle Juszczyk. Projected No. 10 with the chance to go in the fifth-to-sixth round is Cornell offensive guard JC Tretter.
Princeton defensive end Mike Catapano does not make the list but is ranked as the Ivy's top defensive prospect by TSN here.
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Hadn't seen this before but in a note column in the New Haven Register there is mention of Yale junior center John Oppenheimer donating stem cells in January to help a 41-year-old European man battling acute leukemia. It's a win not just for the man but for the Mandi Schwartz Marrow Donor Registration Drive at Yale. The Bulldogs help run the drive honoring a valiant fight put up by the late Yale hockey player. Oppenheimer said:
“It’s an experience I’m blessed to have had to opportunity to do. It’s such an easy way to make a huge impact on someone’s life. Very rarely do people have the opportunity to save someone’s life. Because it was so easy, it was a no-brainer for me.”Brown defensive back Matt Shannon was a bone marrow donor as a result of the school's "Be The Match" testing drive. The Bears hosted another testing drive Tuesday.
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Dartmouth will conduct spring practice No. 2 this afternoon and as always, a full report will be posted tonight on BGA Premium.
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The Dartmouth has a report on last night's candidate debate for student body president and the paper notes That Certain '14 believes (the italics are mine) . . .. . . Dartmouth’s image “has been hurt” by recent hazing scandals and incidents of bias on campus, though an increased focus on positive programs such as athletics could improve Dartmouth’s image.Her presidential candidate statement in The Dartmouth is here. Her VP's statement is here. There are other statements posted in The D but you'll have to dig up the links yourself. Really, you didn't expect me to post them here, did you?
