Monday, June 16, 2014

Familiar Name


Bob Colbert, who served as offensive line coach under Buddy Teevens on the 1990 Ivy League championship Big Green, has joined the Bridgewater College staff as tight ends coach. His son Brett will coach the receivers.

The Colberts are a football family. Bob's younger brother Kevin is GM of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Colbert had been head coach at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., since the school reinstated football in 2006 (LINK), winning President's Athletic Conference Coach of the Year horns in 2011 before going winless the last two seasons.
If there's one game to watch in the Ivy League next fall, what would it be?

The Sports Network chooses Harvard's Oct. 25 visit to Princeton. (LINK) From TSN:
Defenses, take cover. Princeton has won the last two matchups by 39-34 (2012) and 51-48 (2013, triple overtime) scores after Harvard won the 2011 matchup, 56-39.