Here's how Sporting News sees the Ivy League race:
1. Princeton
2. Penn
3. Harvard
4. Yale
5. Brown
6. Dartmouth
7. Cornell
8. Columbia
Green Alert Take: Huh?
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Sporting News has Week 2 foe New Hampshire second behind Villanova in the powerful CAA, and Homecoming opponent Holy Cross sixth of seven in the Patriot League.
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Scroll down to yesterday's posting if you missed Lindy's predictions for the 2014 campaign.
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Two senior wide receivers who closed out their Dartmouth football careers last fall will be in action this weekend as the Big Green rugby team tries to recapture the USA 7s Collegiate Rugby Championship national title it won in 2011 and 2012.Robbie Anthony and Clay Robbins are first-time members of the team and will join with former football recruit Zach Fowler as Dartmouth plays St. Joseph's Friday at 7:40 p.m., Notre Dame Saturday at 1:36, and Kutztown Saturday at 4:36. The top eight teams advance to the championship bracket on Sunday.
Check out info on the Dartmouth team here and the championship here. Cal, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio State, UCLA, Penn State, Arizona and Virginia Tech are among the other schools in the event.
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Old friend Colgate, like the rest of the Patriot League teams (minus Georgetown), is now a scholarship football program and has produced a very slick video, This Is Colgate Football. Looks as if new coach Dan Hunt, the longtime assistant who takes over for Dick Biddle, means business.If you don't think the Patriot League's addition of scholarships and what comes with them should be a matter of concern for the Ivies, here are a few quotes from the video. Italics are mine.
Coach Dan Hunt:
"I want to see Colgate continue to be the premier team in the Patriot League and then take those next steps on a national level. I want to keep talking about national championships and I want to strive for that level of success and there's no reason why we can't."Colgate will be striving for a national championship. The Ivies? Just watching.
And with no disrespect intended for Central Connecticut, Monmouth, Jacksonville and Davidson, which dot Ivy League nonconference schedules this fall, Colgate has a different vision having recently played Syracuse and Air Force and with other FBS games on the horizon:
Wide receiver Jimmy DeCicco:
"That's a great experience, playing the best teams in the country. And from a school like this, you can't really get that anywhere else."Hunt:
"That will be something kids will take away from playing here. I'll remember that trip to Army, Navy, Syracuse. Games like that. And as we grow I think those are games we are going to compete in (and) not just say we played in."
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This posting in our Upper Valley listserv had me chuckling:Looking for guard donkey
I am in the need for a donkey to watch over and protect around 100 ewes and their lambs.
