A Quiet Friday

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I can remember seeing a poster of this "Ivy League Family Portrait," well after Dartmouth had abandoned the Indian nickname and thinking it would be hard to create a new version with a "Big Green"sitting in the front row.

What I never really noticed before was the Harvard mascot. That's pretty funny, actually ;-)

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Speaking of Harvard, in advance of The Game there was a lengthy look at the place of athletics at Harvard published by The Crimson. It included this:

The educational value of athletics has long been touted by Harvard and many of its peer institutions. When the eight Ivy schools signed the Ivy charter in 1954, they agreed, “that under proper conditions intercollegiate competition in organized athletics offers desirable development and recreation for players and a healthy focus of collegiate loyalty.”

And this . . .

If Harvard is not a sports school already, it feels like more of one every year.

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Princeton coach Bob Surace quoted in Town Topics after the Tiger loss at Dartmouth:

"We showed that we could compete with the Browns, Penns, and Harvards, week in, week out."

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Speaking or Princeton, a story on quarterback Quinn Epperly in the Daily Princetonian includes this:

Epperly shined at Texas A&M’s high school football camp and caught the eyes of the coaching staff. They informed Epperly that they had just promised their last quarterback spot to someone else. ... Two years later, his conception of the event was put into new context: While watching the Heisman Trophy presentation from a Princeton dorm room, he realized the recruit who had beaten him to the A&M scouts was Aggies star Johnny Manziel.