Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Catching On

Four wide receivers Dartmouth will see this fall – with two from the Ivy League – have been named to the College Football Performance Awards (CFPA) Watch List.

Chosen from the Ivy League were Cornell's Lucas Shapiro and Yale's Deon Randall.

Randall is the top returning receiver in the Ivy League after catching 85 passes for 788 yards and eight touchdowns a year ago. Shapiro had 38 grabs for 600 yards and six touchdowns.

Also named were New Hampshire's R.J. Harris and Central Connecticut's Tyrell Holmes.

UNH's Harris had 76 receptions with five touchdowns in 13 appearances. Holmes had 42 catches with seven touchdowns for CCSU in 2013.

Bo Patterson led Dartmouth last year with 25 catches, including six for touchdowns.

For what it's worth, likely Patriot League favorite Fordham had three of the 32 receivers on the list.
Whew!

Football tickets for rising juniors at Penn State went on sale this morning at 7 and That Certain Nittany Lion locked up his seats by 7:05. This may be hard to appreciate for those who haven't been through a sale like this, but there's a tremendous sense of relief when the computer screen blinks and confirms the tickets have come through. Student tickets sell out, some years within minutes.


And finally, nine-week-old Griff is starting to feel right at home here on the shoulder of Moose Mountain but it's always nice to have a security blanket (or in this case towel).

Click picture for a better look. Go ahead, you know you want to ;-)