Monday, October 06, 2014

It Was A Good Saturday

For video highlights of the win over Penn click HERE.

Saturday was a good day for Dartmouth on and off the field. On the field, the Big Green finally got the upper hand on Penn. Off the field, according to his Twitter posting, it got a commitment from defensive lineman Jimmy McHugh of Moorestown, N.J., in the shadow of Philadelphia.

McHugh is a 6-foot-3, 270-pound defensive end. Read a story about him HERE. There are highlights and a lengthy first-person bio on his NCSA recruiting page. There are more videos on his Hudl page HERE.

The Dartmouth school newspaper story on the win over Penn is HERE.
The D has a Q&A with wide receiver Kirby Schoenthaler where he talks about his transition from quarterback HERE.
On the heels of the loss to Dartmouth, the Daily Pennsylvanian is throwing in the towel. From a DP column under the headline, The ship has sailed on Penn football's Ivy title hopes (LINK):
...(T)hrough three games, it looks like Penn will be closer to the bottom of the Ancient Eight than Ivy glory.
The DP game story is HERE and the paper's blog, The Buzz, offers up the Good, the Bad and the Ugly against Dartmouth HERE.
Here are the Sagarin Ratings for this week. The sequence of three numbers is preseason, last week, and this week in bold.

Ivy League
Harvard 149, 131, 119
Yale 194, 178, 134
Princeton 137, 141, 151
Dartmouth 174, 170, 165
Penn 184, 177, 203
Brown  195, 205, 214
Cornell 219, 211, 225
Columbia 241, 235, 235

Nonconference Opponents
New Hampshire 84, 98, 93
Holy Cross 213, 215, 208
Central Connecticut 225, 225, 221

Green Alert Take: While this is all about who you played and who they played, it's still maddening to see a team like Brown win its first game and drop. Yale, meanwhile, soared on the strength of Army's win over Ball State, but Cornell was hardly rewarded for losing to the soaring Yale team.