Saturday, July 20, 2013

A VERY Familiar Name

A defensive end with great speed, Anthony Gargiulo '06 made the All-Ivy League honorable mention team as a sophomore and the All-Ivy first team as a junior and senior. After deciding not to pursue an NFL contract he changed his mind about pro football and following a year away from the game earned a starting spot with the Calgary Stampeders. He might be in the NFL today if not for a cheap shot in a CFL game resulting in a horrible broken leg that ended his football career. (Check out the "Controversy" entry in this link.)

Go ahead. Google "Anthony Gargiulo and Dartmouth" and up will come a host of stories about him including one on the 247 Sports website that looks like an Internet mistake. It reports that a Central Jersey defensive standout named Anthony Gargiulo is sitting on an offer from Dartmouth.

How can that be?

Turns out it's not Somerville Immaculata product Anthony Gargiulo. It's 6-foot-2, 220-pound linebacker Anthony Gargiulo of Colts Neck, N.J., the fourth-leading tackler in New Jersey last year with 137 stops. He also has offers from Yale and Navy.

The Colts Neck Gargiulo also plays lacrosse, a sport the Dartmouth Gargiulo gave a shot after his college football career was over. LINK
Speaking of the CFL, there's a story on the Yahoo Canada site about Hamilton Tiger-Cats special teams coordinator Jeff Reinebold. From the story:
After taking (then Maine coach Jack Bicknell's) advice on professions, Reinebold started his coaching career in 1981 (at age 26) as a graduate assistant at the NAIA's Western Montana College, where he worked mostly with quarterbacks and wide receivers. He then worked as a defensive coordinator at Division I FCS Dartmouth . . . 
Hmmm. Graduate assistant at an NAIA school one year and defensive coordinator in DI a year later?

Truth is, Reinebold wasn't actually Dartmouth's defensive coordinator. Rather, he was an outside linebacker coach on Joe Yukica's staff for a year. But don't blame the writer for getting that wrong. There have been a lot of stops to sort out. More from the story:
He likely has the longest and most geographically-diverse resume, anyway: Reinebold has made 19 football coaching stops since 1981, working everywhere from Las Vegas to Dusseldorf to Montana to Amsterdam to Hawaii to Vancouver, and he's perservered through firings, a bout with cancer and more adversity.