Tuesday, November 04, 2014

See For Yourself

To watch highlights from the TV broadcast of Dartmouth-Harvard
CLICK HERE.
And to watch the Ivy League football highlight package, check out this video:


Teams of interest in the FCS national poll conducted by The Sports Network:
2. UNH
3. Coastal Carolina
9. Fordham
18. Harvard
32. Bucknell
38. Yale
41. Sacred Heart
Dartmouth did not receive any votes in the aftermath of the loss to Harvard.
The Gridiron Power Index which combines 10 different ranking systems into one looks like this for the FCS:
15. Harvard
39. Yale
48. Dartmouth
74. Brown
78.Princeton
99. Penn
112. Cornell
120. Columbia
2. UNH
72. Holy Cross
100. Central Connecticut State  
Dartmouth's appearance in the ECAC rankings to determine supremacy in the East at the FCS level lasted just one week. Here's how this week's poll looks:
1. New Hampshire (7-1)
2. Fordham (8-1)
3. Richmond (7-2)
4. Villanova (7-2)
5. Harvard (7-0)
6. Bryant (7-1)
7. James Madison (6-3)
8. Bucknell (7-1)
9. William & Mary (5-4)
10. Yale (6-1)
Former Dartmouth walk-on kicker Chuck Zodda offers his look at Dartmouth-Harvard HERE.
A Cornell Sun story (LINK) about Dartmouth's next opponent gives a little insight on what's up in Ithaca:
For the first time this season, one did not expect the Cornell University football team’s offensive drives to end with a failed third down conversion. For the first time this season, one did not expect to see a booming kick from sophomore punter Chris Fraser — who has arguably been among the team’s most valuable players thus far in the season — capping off an offensive drive.
Most importantly for the Red and head coach David Archer ’05, though, for the first time this season the offense consistently put together sustained offensive drives, marching down the field towards the end zone with a flurry of short passes and read-option plays while putting points up on the board frequently.
Business Insider writes about former Yale quarterback Patrick Witt's Op-Ed in the Boston Globe regarding the sexual assault policy both at Yale and at Harvard, where he is a first-year law student.  (LINK)

Witt says the Yale policy, "nearly ruined my life." Read his Op-Ed HERE.
Runaway Patriot League football leader Fordham is taking a pioneering step at the FCS level. From a school release (LINK):
Fordham University will offer four-year athletic scholarships to all scholarship student-athletes beginning with the incoming class of 2015 it was announced by Director of Athletics Dave Roach.  This new policy will replace the former one-year renewable scholarships.
Missed this on the Dartmouth website earlier. The three schools with the top graduation rate in the nation for athletes? Dartmouth, Holy Cross and Notre Dame. (LINK)