Football may have the highest number of concussions by sport because of the roster size, but many other sports see higher occurrence rates per athletic exposure. According to a National Academy of Sciences report released last month, field hockey, women's lacrosse and soccer, wrestling, ice hockey and women's basketball have all proved about as dangerous or more so than football in recent years in terms of reported concussions.
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Cornell quarterback Jeff Mathews will play in the East-West Shrine Game (LINK) to be broadcast by the NFL Network on Jan. 18 at 4 p.m.Dartmouth's Jay Fiedler played in the 1994 Shrine Game, sharing co-offensive player of the game honors with San Jose standout Jeff Garcia. Fiedler was 8-for-13 with one touchdown in the Shrine game.
Princeton defensive lineman Mike Catapano and Harvard tight end Kyle Juszczyk were both invited to the game last year. Among others selected in recent years was Brown tailback Nick Hartigan.
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Stumbled across a web mention of something called Grand Slam Stringing Technologies that has developed a gizmo (my word) to help an amateur tennis player cut in half the time it takes to restring a racket. Listed among the inventors: Elliot Kastner, a defensive lineman on this year's Dartmouth football team. (LINK)
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Yesterday's video (scroll down), which didn't work, has been replaced by one someone recorded off the TV. It's not the best quality but gets the job done.
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There's no football or mention of running back Kevin Price in this short video on veterans at Dartmouth, but it's well-worth watching. I got a laugh from former Dartmouth President Jim Wright's story about climbing Mt. Moosilauke: