Albert Poree, the former New Orleans high school teammate of assistant coach Cortez Hankton who spent the last year at Dartmouth, has moved on to Mississippi State, where he will hold down a defensive quality control position.
In Starkville, Poree can trade Dartmouth memories with Mississippi State tight end coach Scott Sallach (BIO), who coached wide receivers and special teams in Hanover from 1998-2002 before moving on to Princeton. In 2009 Sallach moved to Mississippi State, where he was united with head coach Dan Mullen, a college teammate at Ursinus.
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Speaking of former New Orleans high school players, this was news to me. Aenas Williams, who will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame Saturday after playing corner for 14 years for the Arizona Cardinals and the St. Louis Rams, might have ended up at Dartmouth. From a story in the Baton Rouge Advocate (LINK):Williams’ senior year ended without a football scholarship offer, although he said he could have attended Ivy League school Dartmouth and played.Williams must have been a very good student. According to Wikipedia (LINK), he didn't play football in his first two years at Southern University and then played what would have been his junior year as a grad student. He was then drafted in the third round. He is now an ordained minister and founding pastor of the Lord Family Church in St. Louis.
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The Portland (Oregon) Business Journal has a column headlined, What I learned from talking to Hank Paulson, Jamie Dimon and Phil Knight. Paulson, of course, is a former Dartmouth lineman better known for his stint as Treasure Secretary. From the story:Fitting for a former college football player (Dartmouth), Paulson struck me as someone who tackles problems the moment they land on his desk.
Find the story HERE.
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Football season kicks off at Memorial Field Saturday at 5:30 p.m. when the Dartmouth facility hosts the annual Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl all-star game featuring graduated seniors from New Hampshire and Vermont. (LINK) The game will be preceded at noon by the Shrine parade down Main Street in Hanover.
New Hampshire has won 13 consecutive games in the series, as many as Vermont has won in total since the game started in 1954. The Granite State holds an overwhelming, 45-13-2 lead in the series.
Among those suiting up for New Hampshire with be Hanover speed burner Shawn Cavallaro (LINK), who, barring a redshirt season, Dartmouth will see in Durham, N.H., on Sept. 27, when he is playing either wide receiver or defensive back for UNH.
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Thunder and lightning yesterday cost That Certain '14 the chance to make it up Mt. Elbert, at 14,433 feet the second-highest peak in the contiguous United States. At about 12,500 feet she and her hiking partner made the right decision to turn back. She sent along a couple of pictures from her hike a day earlier to the peak of 14,157-foot Mt. Sneffels. In the second that's her in the circle ;-)
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