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| Alex Park (14) and Dalyn Williams (10) |
Dartmouth kicked off spring football yesterday and the "lede" of the first story on BGA Premium was spun out of the fact that there will be headline-grabbing quarterbacks at seven of the eight Ivy League schools next fall. No guarantees that they will all play, but it should be interesting.
Here's how the BGA story began:
Speaking of quarterbacks, The Sports Network has a story about talented senior quarterbacks in the FCS next fall and Dartmouth is playing against two of them. Mentioned is Cornell's Jeff Mathews, who will shatter the Ivy League career passing yardage record barring injury this fall, and Butler's Matt Lancaster, the Pioneer Football League's offensive player of the year last season.
The story might also have have mentioned Bucknell's Brandon Wesley, who will be a four-year starter when Dartmouth sees him in the fall. Wesley already has broken the school record for completions in a career and if he matches his career average, he'll shatter the school record for yardage in a career by more than 1,000 yards.
From the story:
Brown and Penn are bringing back fifth-year quarterbacks with All-Ivy League recognition on their resumes. Columbia and Yale are said to have transfer QBs coming in from big-time programs and Princeton reportedly got a late commitment from a high school quarterback who walked away from an SEC scholarship offer.
Cornell returns the QB who will likely graduate as the most prolific passer in Ivy League history and while Harvard is graduating the conference’s offensive player of the year, there’s always a talented signalcaller in the pipeline.
The 2013 season has the chance to be the Year of the Quarterback everywhere but at Dartmouth.
Why? Because for the Big Green it will be the Year of the Quarterbacks.
Plural.That would be Alex Park and Dalyn Williams (pictured above). More from the story:
Back on the field for the start of spring practice Tuesday was Alex Park, who completed 62.6 percent of his throws for 1,370 yards and seven touchdowns while starting the first seven games last fall as a sophomore. Also back was Dalyn Williams and all he did as a freshman was win Ivy League Rookie of the Year after stepping in for the injured Park and completing 64.0 percent of his passes for 974 yards with seven touchdowns and no interceptions while starting the final three games.
Williams’ passing efficiency was second in the Ivy League behind only conference offensive player of the year Colton Chapple of Harvard while Park was on his way to finishing with Dartmouth’s second-best completion percentage (behind only Jay Fiedler) before he was hurt.Who will be No. 1? Coach Buddy Teevens addressed that and his answer may surprise you ;^)
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| Spring (football) has sprung in Hanover. |
The story might also have have mentioned Bucknell's Brandon Wesley, who will be a four-year starter when Dartmouth sees him in the fall. Wesley already has broken the school record for completions in a career and if he matches his career average, he'll shatter the school record for yardage in a career by more than 1,000 yards.
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A columnist for the Columbia Spectator looks at Final Four member Wichita State dropping football and allocating a greater percentage of its budget to basketball. The writer isn't suggesting dropping Columbia football, but seems to be suggesting that there might be an advantage to shifting some of the money and resources away from the game to better support other sports.From the story:
We need to change something to find our own “big advantage.” We simply can’t continue to spread ourselves thin by investing such significant amounts of both capital and resources into so many different sports—many that have continued to show no signs of progress year after year.
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Ah, Wichita State. Want to guess what Ivy League basketball team is listed ahead of the Shockers and ahead of Indiana – No. 1 on several occasions this winter – in the CBS Sports' Ridiculously Early Preseason Top 25 (and one)? Why that would be your Harvard Crimson, who come in at No. 21.
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The latest Columbia football update looks at strength and conditioning but also takes on those who live and die with the heights and weights on team rosters.
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And for those of you following the race for the next Dartmouth Student Assembly president, there's a story in The D with a few thoughts from That Certain Candidate along with a picture. 