For highlights from the NBCSports Network broadcast of the Dartmouth-Brown game, CLICK HERE.
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The Dartmouth recap of Saturday's win over Brown is HERE.
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The Brown Daily Herald story about the game is HERE.
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Jay Greenberg's fine Princeton Football site (LINK) wastes no time mentioning something a few of us saw coming a few weeks back:Princeton’s seniors have never beaten Dartmouth. What’s more, should Yale upset Harvard Saturday, the Tigers can deny The Big Green a share of the Ivy League title perhaps even more painfully than when Princeton’s opportunity to win it outright last year was spoiled in Week 10 at Dartmouth.
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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, 85, 94
Dartmouth 174, 154, 153
Yale 194, 161, 160
Princeton 137, 178, 191
Brown 195, 194, 207
Penn 184, 213, 218
Cornell 219, 233, 235
Columbia 241, 247, 248
Nonconference Opponents
New Hampshire 84, 77, 82
Holy Cross 213, 195, 200
Central Connecticut 225, 227, 229
Green Alert Take: Given conference play and the importance of strength of schedule in the Sagarin formula, it is really hard to make much of a move upward at this time of year. Cornell actually won for the first time and dropped two spots. Falling in the rankings is easy. Harvard plummeted with a win over a struggling Penn team while Brown lost a whopping 13 spots.
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Norman Chad takes a shot at Columbia football in a Washington Post column HERE.
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From the football alum and friend of BGA:This week's NT18 contest (guess the number of sacks Dartmouth's defense would record) was set up to virtually guarantee the use of a tie-breaker to determine a winner. Surely the winner would be the person whose backup tie-breaker guess (total points scored in the game) was most accurate, right?
Nobody picked the Big Green to record zero sacks. Most picks had Dartmouth recording between 2 and 5 sacks. Amazingly, the only person who guessed the correct sack total (1) also chose not to submit a tie-breaker (meaning that if you, gentle reader, had guessed one sack and 500 total points, it would be you making reservations at Elixir Restaurant in downtown White River Junction, VT.). I will leave it to you to decide if this week's winning pick by the amazing Al Stevens '72 was an act of pure genius, hubris, supreme confidence or plain old forgetfulness. Or a combination of the four. In any event, congratulations, Al! Your $100 gift card to Elixir is on its way to you.
Incidently, all contestants who guessed '2 sacks' and at least 42 total points finished in the week's Top Ten!
On a final note, in a just world, Cody Fulleton's "crushing blow" to Brown QB, Marcus Fuller, in the second quarter should really be worth at least 5 sacks. The complexion of the game totally changed after that hit. rown Head Coach, Phil Estes, was quoted after the game saying: "We couldn't protect him (Fuller). We tried to move the pocket and (he was) still...taking hits. I had to get him (Fuller) out of there." It's the first time I've ever heard a coach say that he had to remove his QB to protect him from the other team. I thought that's what Brown's O-Line was supposed to be doing? Kudos to Dartmouth's defense (and it's coaches) for prompting such an amazing remark from Estes.
On to Princeton. Adapt and Adjust!
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The Dartmouth continues to follow the Clickergate story and today has an interactive chart that shows how many athletes from each sport are in the class. From today's paper (LINK):
Varsity athletes comprise just under 70 percent of the 272-person class, including more than half of the football team, or 61 players, more than half of the men’s hockey team, or 16 players, and more than two-thirds of the men’s basketball team, or 12 players. The men’s soccer team has 10 players in the class, and the baseball, women’s soccer and women’s lacrosse teams each have nine. Athletes in the class represent 24 of Dartmouth’s 34 varsity teams, and about a quarter of Dartmouth students are varsity athletes.
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The Brown Daily Herald surveyed student attitudes about athletic recruiting and resulted in a story (LINK) under the headline:Majority of undergrads oppose reserving spots for athletesFrom the story:
Most varsity athletes favor admission slots, which enable teams to compete with peer squads, they say
The University reduced the number of admission spots reserved for athletes from 225 to 205 over the last three years, as part of a series of measures to change the athletics department that former President Ruth Simmons proposed in 2011 following significant debate.
As part of the changes, the University also raised the minimum Academic Index — a measure of grade point average and standardized test scores — for admitted athletes, beginning in fall 2012, The Herald previously reported.
