Surprisingly, to me at least, the Ivy team mentioned in the story was Yale.
If by "hump" the column is suggesting a program that is at a tipping point, Dartmouth absolutely fits the bill. The Big Green's records over the last three years:
2010 – 6-4
2011 – 5-5
2010 – 6-4
Dartmouth's Ivy League records:
2010 – 3-4
2011 – 4-3
2012 – 4-3
The records seems to suggest Yale will not begin the 2013 season on the hump, but rather on the far side of it. The Bulldogs' record over the last three years:
2010 – 7-3
2011 – 5-5
2010 – 2-8
Yale's Ivy League records:
2010 – 5-2
2011 – 4-3
2012 – 1-6
But as they say on those commercials, past performance is not a guarantee of future results ;-)
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Speaking of Yale, a release on its spring game Saturday notes that the event will also be a fundraiser for a worthy cause. From the release:Booths will be set up outside the Bowl for donations to the Warrior-Scholar Program, which has been led by former Yale linebacker Jesse Reising '11. The program, which helps war veterans transition to college, made its debut on the Yale campus last spring with the support of faculty and staff volunteers.
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Any speculation that a wrench had been thrown in the transfer of Stanford quarterback Brett Nottingham to Columbia has disappeared with the posting of a lengthy bio and short highlight video of the heralded QB on the Lions' website.
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A story out of Penn State details the responsibilities of Jim Bernhardt, football coach Bill O'Brien's right-hand man, confidant and one of his coaches when he played at Brown.
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It's not football, but Dartmouth athletics received two impressive national honors this week. Baseball's Joe Purritano was named one of five Louisville Slugger National Players of the Week by Collegiate Baseball today after going 10-for-19 against Holy Cross and Brown with four homers, two doubles, a triple and 11 RBIs.Skiing's Cami Thompson Graves was named the United States Collegiate Ski Coaches Association (USCSCA) National Nordic Coach of the Year.
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And finally, Rick Bender, Dartmouth's director of sports publicity, gets a well-deserved nod for his long hours of hard work in a story in today's Dartmouth. Not mentioned in the story is the fact that the Coca Cola Kid was a three-time, all-conference shortstop at Davidson in the early '90s before going on to play pro baseball.Oh, and if you are scanning The D today, That Certain '14 is in the photo on the front page ;-)
