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| The line gives CodyPatch some good running room during Sunday practice. (Click to enlarge. Click again to supersize.) |
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Roger Hughes, a longtime Dartmouth offensive coordinator and later head coach at Princeton, led Stetson to its first win in 57 years when the Hatters finished off a 31-3 victory over Warner Sunday in a lightning-delayed game. While Stetson hadn't played in almost six decades, Warner, an NAIA school, was playing its first game. Ever. Find a story here.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal had a lengthy story on Hughes in anticipation of his first game. From the story:
“I hadn't realized how overtly it had affected me,” Hughes says of his Princeton struggles those last few seasons. “I'd lost weight. I never smiled. I wasn't sleeping — I was the type who thought there was always one more thing I could do. It was affecting my health. So when I got fired, in some ways, it was ...”
With that, Hughes delivers a long and relaxing exhale.
“It probably saved my life in a lot of ways,” he says. “I figured out that all of those things I worried about, really didn't matter. While it might have appeared to be the low point of my life, the Big Guy had a different plan, and frankly it probably ended up saving my life and absolutely made me a better coach, perspective-wise. It made me a much better coach, going through that.”
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Ian Park, Dartmouth quarterback Alex Park's little brother – or rather big brother at 6-foot-4, 295 – started on the offensive line for Northwestern Saturday night, helping with Wildcats to a 44-30 win over Cal. Find Ian's bio here.
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Among those at Dartmouth practice Sunday was incoming quarterback Jonathan DiBiaso, who will miss this season because of arm surgery. The all-time season and career touchdown leader in the state of Massachusetts will be a part-time team manager this year while he rehabs. He spent part of the Sunday session riding a stationary bicycle with one arm.
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Word out of Philadelphia after the Quakers' scrimmage against Stony Brook is that fifth-year senior quarterback Billy Ragone was showing no ill effects from his gruesome ankle break against Harvard in Game Nine last year. Penn coach Al Bagnoli has said he would be bringing Ragone along slowly to guard against any psychological hangover from the injury but apparently the tough-as-nails quarterback isn't letting that slow him down. Nothing out of Philly on the scrimmage but Stony Brook's site has a look at the action from the SBU perspective here. The transfer-laden CAA team from Long Island controlled play.
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The Kansas City Star has a very nice story on Columbia free agent Josh Martin making the Chiefs' roster. Princeton's Mike Catapano, who also made the team, gets a mention as well.
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There were a bunch of FCS victories over FBS teams in the opening weekend of college football and ESPN.com got to the heart of the matter. From a story headlined, Seven FCS teams cash in via upsets:
The seven FCS teams raked in a total of $2.375 million, ranging from $225,000 to $450,000 each.
CBSSports chipped in with a story under the headline, Fear The FCS: Four more FBS teams get more than they paid for.
Colgate didn't get the upset playing at Air Force Saturday, but it did get the check ;-)
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How would you like to kick a field goal with 1 second remaining to take the lead and then have this happen on the ensuing kickoff? Video from a game in Texas between A&M Consolidated and Copperas Cove:
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The first double-session of the preseason is on tap today. BGA Premium will have stories after both sessions so you can read about the first before the second even begins.
