Dartmouth linebacker Bronson Green does a TV interview before practice with WCAX-TV 3 sports reporter Scott Fleishman yesterday for airing on the Burlington, Vt., CBS affiliate. Sports anchor Mike McCune is a former All-Ivy lineman at Dartmouth.
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A reminder that the Dartmouth junior varsity will play host to Williams Sunday at 1 p.m. Check BGA Premium for full coverage.
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If you are interested in the BGA Hike Saturday, be sure to vote on your choice of where we hike:
For information on the two hikes, scroll down to yesterday's BGA post.
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Nobody gets their game notes out faster than Holy Cross. Find this week's edition of the Crusader notes here. The notes indicate that 6-foot-2, 185-pound freshman Peter Pujals will get his first start at quarterback for Holy Cross. Pujals completed 12-of-19 passes for 129 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 22 yards in last week's loss to Monmouth.
To learn more about this week's rival, check out the Holy Cross Football Show with special guest Dick Lutsk, Dartmouth's play-by-play caller. Coach Tom Gilmore talks about Pujals getting the start deep into the clip:
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The Dartmouth daily writes about quarterback Dalyn Williams, who shared the Ivy League offensive player of the week honors after passing for 228 yards and running for 119 in Saturday's win over Butler.
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Butler football coach Jeff Voris talked about Williams in the Butler Collegian game story:“He's a great player, first and foremost. They have a great scheme, but he made some plays on his own that made some guys miss.”
“He’s a tremendous athlete and played well within their scheme.”
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It wasn't all that long ago that Ivy League school papers had thorough football coverage. That isn't the case anymore but the Daily Princetonian, at least, has an overview of the week in Ivy football.
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Lehigh Football Nation goes behind the scenes to tell the story of how the University of New Hampshire very nearly accepted an offer to become part of the Patriot League. According to Athletic Director Marty Scarano, the sticking point wasn't the Academic Index because the UNH program recruits football players who represent the student body to the same degree that players at Patriot League schools represent their student body. Rather, it was the rule against redshirting that UNH had to think long and hard about.Something from the story that I did not know:
The Ivy League and Patriot League are the only two conferences in FCS that specifically prohibit it; even the non-scholarship Pioneer Football League allows it.So the Pioneer allows redshirting!
Green Alert Take: Kudos to the Patriot League for recognizing that the UNH program does things the right way. The school accepts good students, graduates them, and has never gone the mass transfer or juco route. Although there was a high-profile arrest of one of the Wildcat players a few years ago (link), UNH players by and large stay out of the headlines. With the Patriot League going scholarship and the Big Green program on the rise, it says here Dartmouth really should give some thought to resuming a regular series with its cross-state rival.
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UNH, by the way, is getting lights at Cowell Stadium. Time will tell but you'd think there's a good chance the rescheduled Dartmouth-UNH game next Sept. 27 could be under the lights. UNH will also replace the general admission stands and "reorient" the concrete stadium and aisles (whatever that means). Find a story here.
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While I agree with this columnist that the NCAA has started to make things right after overstepping its bounds by punishing current players and coaches at Penn State, I must admit that given the headlines surrounding the troubled ruling organization of college sports in the last year this photo I shot in Indianapolis Saturday afternoon speaks volumes.
