Wednesday, September 04, 2013

Fun Stuff

After a week of increasingly hard practices, the Dartmouth coaches let some of the steam vent following Tuesday's session by inviting the offense and defense to nominate competitors for an impromptu dance contest to music being pumped out of the sideline boombox. Suffice it to say the offense won partly behind Jordan Aré (86), but mostly due to the athleticism of Victor Williams (18), who pulls off quite a move in the background.

Here's the video I shot of the dancing:



The contest won't be the last surprise for the team this preseason if the last few are any indication . . .
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An impressive note from the LA Times sports blog:
The 2009 Loyola football team is proving quite a team for producing team captains at the college level. 
Anthony Barr (UCLA), Colin Tanigawa (Washington), Jordan Hanson (Nevada) and Bronson Green (Dartmouth) were all once captains at Loyola and now they are captains in college.
Green, a linebacker, is a two-time captain at Dartmouth. Find his bio here.

If you are curious about his fellow high school captains:

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Kudos to Columbia for pulling together a virtual media guide. Find it here. Best news: If you have an Issuu log-in, you can download a PDF of the book so you can read it offline.
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Sure wish the Ivy League website would replace its story about all the Ivy grads in NFL camps with one that lists the players who actually made rosters. I'd hate to think I missed one in this posting. Maybe it's already on the site but I haven't found it.

While I'm at it, that scrolling headlines on the Ivy page are really, really annoying. If they go by too fast for you, click in the little circles below them to stop the madness.

Then again, I'm no fan of splash stories scrolling across almost all of the Ivy football web pages. On most of them you have to sit through the whole rotation to see if there's anything new. It just chases me away.
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The New York Times writes about the rash of FCS upsets of FBS teams. (Read as Division I-AA teams upsetting Division I-A teams.)

By the way, when an FBS team pays you $350,000 to take a beating and you do the whipping you may find your calls about future games going unanswered Check out a story in the Des Moines Register. 
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Another double-session on the Big Green practice schedule today. BGA Premium will once again report on all the doings around the Dartmouth football team today. As always, when there are double-sessions there is a lengthy story posted on the first even before the second session starts. (In case you are wondering how that works, I bring my 1984 VW camper bus on double-session days, write in the VW and then grab a few Zzzz's if possible ;-)
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