AD Sheehy: I Have Seen Progress

As noted on BGA Premium yesterday, Buddy Teevens will be back as Dartmouth head coach next  year. Details are scarce but a brief story in the Valley News quotes Athletic Director Harry Sheehy:

"I have seen progress in how our team has reacted to adversity, and I think there is good potential there for that to continue. Sure, I'd like to be farther along. We are a field goal away from playing for the Ivy League title on Saturday, but I've seen growth and I'd like to help Buddy continue that in any way I can."

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Senior linebacker Michael Runger is the Ivy League's co-Defensive Player of the Week and freshman kicker Alex Gakenheimer has been chosen both the Rookie of the Week and the Special Teams Player of the Week. Find a story here.

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Princeton coach Bob Surace on the Princeton Football blog:

"Dartmouth has lost four games (two in the conference) through some of the unluckiest things I have ever seen.  They played Harvard at Harvard better than we did.”

A telling note from the same posting:

Di Andre Atwater, injured during the second quarter Saturday, was cleared to return to the game but was held out as a precaution. Tigers leading rusher should be ready to go at Dartmouth Saturday, meaning the entire starting lineup for Game One is still healthy for Game 10, how championships usually are won.

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Things are getting ugly down at Columbia where former Lions' great Des Werthman wrote a letter to the school athletic director that includes this:

So, I am requesting that I no longer be a member of the Columbia Hall of Fame and any and all records I hold at Columbia be stricken from the record books.  Please take down whatever plaque or description you have of me and no longer print any of the records I hold in any of the programs going forward.

Werthman's full letter can be read here.

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Teams of local interest in this week's poll by The Sports Network:

4. Maine
12. Fordham
17. Lehigh
21. UNH
22. Princeton
29. Harvard
34. Sacred Heart

Teams of local interest in the FCS Coaches poll:

4. Maine
11. Fordham
15. Lehigh
19. Princeton
24. UNH
26. Harvard
31. Sacred Heart

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The Lambert Meadowlands FCS Poll for "Eastern supremacy:"

1. Maine
2. Towson
3. Fordham
4. Princeton
5. Lehigh
6. Harvard
7. William & Mary
8. UNH
9. Delaware
10. Villanova

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Watch and cheer . . .