Not A Surprise

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When filmmaker Erik Greenberg Anjou was making the 2008 documentary 8:Ivy League Football and America he asked me which Dartmouth players might be best in front of the camera. I immediately steered him to captain Preston Copley, who as his bio says, "Held the lead in every play his high school presented while he attended."

Preston has been in and around the theater since graduation and so it was hardly a surprise to see a feature in The Dartmouth about what he's doing now. From a story headlined, Copley ’07 to seek out Broadway’s next hit:

Preston Copley ’07 assumed the role of director of creative development for theater at Jean Doumanian Productions in December. In his role, Copley will scout in London and other international theaters for new projects that Doumanian will produce on and off-Broadway. An athlete and involved in theater at the College, he will build on established relationships between Doumanian and artists and coordinate with the company’s vice president, Patrick Daly.

You can see Copley at the 50-second mark and again at the 2:38 mark of the following trailer for 8. Former linebacker Andrew Dete is also featured in this clip.

(And be sure to stick around to hear both Calvin Hill and Tommy Lee Jones comments on the famed 29-29 Harvard-Yale tie):

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The Sports Network has released its final Top 25 poll and there are a handful or more teams of interest to Dartmouth that drew a mention:

5. New Hampshire (2014 opponent)
7. Coastal Carolina (Joe Moglia coach)
9. Fordham (Patriot League scholarship year 4)
26. Harvard
27. Lehigh (Patriot League scholarship year 1)
28. Sacred Heart
32. Princeton
38. Butler (2012, '13 opponent)

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The Lambert Meadowlands Football Awards (nee Lambert Trophy) has been awarded in the FCS to national finalist Towson. The final rankings for the award, in an earlier time billed as being emblematic of "supremacy in the East:"

1. Towson 13-3
2. Fordham 12-2
3. New Hampshire 10-5
4. Maine 10-3
5. Harvard 9-1
6. Princeton 8-2
7. Villanova 6-5
8. William & Mary 7-5
9. Lehigh 8-3
10. Sacred Heart 10-3

Penn State won the FBS Lambert.

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The Dartmouth campus experienced a two-hour blackout yesterday morning. I admit to snickering a little and thinking, "Aw, poor babies," when I read this from the lede of a report in The D:

After trudging through the slush to arrive at class, students were forced to read their syllabi by the light of their cellphones’ flashlights while professors had to improvise without lecture slides. 

The Dartmouth also has a story about the early acceptance decisions by the college.