Harry Wilson, by the way, was one of four brothers to graduate from Dartmouth, including Benjamin Wilson '73, a Dartmouth trustee.
Russell Wilson isn't the only one of Harry's children who might have made quite an impact on the Dartmouth athletic scene by coming this way. Harry Wilson IV made a recruiting trip to Hanover before playing football at Richmond, where he caught 56 passes one year. Like his dad and his younger brother, he also doubled in baseball.
Anna Wilson, though just a high school sophomore, has committed to play basketball at Stanford. Check out this ESPN story on her.
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Russell Wilson posted several pictures of his father on his blog recently and had this to say in a Seattle Times piece:(On him posting a picture of his father on Twitter…)
“Yeah that picture that I posted today was my dad playing two sports at Dartmouth and he was playing baseball at the time in the 1970s or whatever. I don’t know, it’s just throwback Thursdays. Thought it was just a neat picture. My uncle had sent that to me last week and I got that from a family member and all that. So it was just one of things that I thought that it was appropriate for the day and it just put a smile on my face man. I get to play in the National Football League; I get to play with great teammates and the best fans in the world. I think about my dad all the time. I wouldn’t be here without my parents and what they’ve done for me and how they’ve raised me, in terms of the work ethic and the constant grind and the constant belief in myself. You know that self-confidence, that self-motivation. So they’ve really instilled that in me and I love them both for them.”
(On what he would think his father would tell him with the chance to clinch the division…)
“I think my dad would definitely tell me, ‘Just be poised Russ (Russell Wilson).’ I think that’s the thing that my dad always used to tell me is always be the calm in the storm, be the guy that’s… nothing is going to fluster me, never will, never has.
(On if he has ever seen that photo before…)
“I’ve never seen that one. My dad looks exactly like me though. It’s kind of weird. I’ve seen a lot of pictures of my dad; I have never seen that one before though.”
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With the college football season wrapped up Jeff Sagarin has posted his final rankings. Debate them all you want, but one thing is certain. They are more accurate than when the season began.The numbers in parentheses are the Sagarin rating prior to the first game of the season, and at midseason.
112 Princeton (189, 147)
114 Harvard (149, 146)
150 Dartmouth (185, 180)
152 Brown (180, 164)
164 Yale (216, 171)
172 Penn (155, 168)
202 Cornell (210, 218)
246 Columbia (229, 245)
182 Bucknell (222, 220)
189 Holy Cross (188, 198)
212 Butler (199, 219)
230 Central Connecticut (2014 opponent)
Conferences
23. Ivy League
27. Patriot League
29. Northeast
33 Pioneer
Interestingly, the Colonial Athletic Conference was ranked ahead of Conference USA-East and MAC-East, meaning New Hampshire's current conference was ranked tougher than the conference former rival Massachusetts joined when it went "big time."
UNH was ranked more than 100 spots ahead of UMass:
89 New Hampshire
193 Massachusetts
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Not only will Dartmouth be losing an absolute superstar with the graduation this spring of Abbey D'Agostino, but her coach is moving along as well. Headed to a position with New Balance is distance coach Mark Coogan, who arrived with D'Agostino (although he did not recruit her).There's a Dartmouth release here and a New Balance release here.
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It's 2-below on the mountain this morning, practically balmy compared to some parts of the nation.