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Following up on yesterday's post about Colgate scheduling teams like Syracuse and the military academies, Holy Cross has announced a 2017 date at the University of Connecticut.From a Holy Cross release:
"The team and I are excited to add UConn to our 2017 schedule," said Holy Cross head coach Tom Gilmore. "Games like this are great for building our football program, and can truly help us with recruiting and attracting top tier talent."
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Penn's Dan Davis, Princeton's Mike Zeuli and Harvard's Eric Medes are among 38 linebackers named to the College Football Performance Awards preseason watch list. New Hampshire's Shane McNeely was recognized as well. Thanks to Penn for posting the entire list here.The release includes this:
"I want to congratulate all those who earned spots on the 2014 College Football Performance Awards Watch List at the linebacker position," said former Dartmouth punt return specialist and CFPA winner Shawn Abuhoff. "I wish all thirty-eight linebackers the best going into next season, and I look forward to watching great things on and off the field."
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In an AP story out of yesterday's White House summit on concussions in youth athletes Thayer School's Richard Greenwald, co-founder and president of Simbex (Head Inpact Telemetry System), was quoted (LINK):Dartmouth researcher Richard Greenwald said Obama hit the right notes with his remarks but that it was important to realize that a lot of work remains before the problem can be considered solved.
''Public awareness is a great thing as long as it leads to better diagnosis, better treatment, better coaching, better outcomes,'' Greenwald said.
