Wednesday, November 05, 2014

This And That


The former Dartmouth football player and friend of BGA sponsoring a contest for a $100 gift certificate to a local eatery each week under the banner of NextTitle18 writes:
With an announced attendance at last Saturday's Harvard game of 5,883, this week's winner of NextTitle18's "Guess the Attendance" contest is Dom Izzo, with a guess of 5,956, only 123 hardy souls off the mark. The next four closest competitors after Dom were Sebastian de Atucha, Linda Wood, Michael O'Flynn and Paul Ettari. A $100 gift card to Murphy's Tavern is on its way to Dom!
With this week's away game at Cornell, NextTitle18's final contest will launch next week in the lead up to the season's last home game versus Brown.  Stay tuned!
Cornell's game notes for Saturday's game with Dartmouth are HERE.
Dartmouth's 2015 honoree at the Ivy Football Association's biennial dinner celebration in New York City on Jan. 22 will be Dr. Kenneth DeHaven '61, who played on Bob Blackman's first championship team and captained the 1960 team.

From his bio for the event (LINK):
Dr. DeHaven is a past president of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the Arthroscopy Association of North America, the International Society of the Knee (a parent society to ISAKOS) and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
For more information on DeHaven, a list of the honorees from the other Ivies and the event itself, click HERE.
Alex Mooney '93, who played freshman football at Dartmouth before moving over to rugby, won a congressional seat from West Virginia yesterday. (LINK) Read more about Mooney on his campaign page HERE.
From an Ivy League release (LINK)
The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame announced today that the Pasadena Tournament of Roses will be the presenting sponsor of the presentation of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup, which honors the Ivy League Football Players of the Year, on Monday, Dec. 8 as part of the festivities surrounding the NFF Annual Awards Dinner in New York City.
BGA Take: There is dripping irony in a bowl game sponsoring something for the Ivy League, which not only banned its teams from playing in bowls at its founding, but considers any postseason play such a mistake that it won't let its football teams take part in the FCS playoffs.
The Massey Ratings had Harvard defeating Dartmouth last week, 28-20. The final was 23-12.

This week Massey sees Dartmouth defeating Cornell, 33-13, with a 91 percent confidence. Massey has the Big Green winning the final two games over Brown, 24-17 (73 percent confidence) and over Princeton, 31-28 (55 percent confidence) to finish 8-2 and 6-1 in the Ivy League.

As for Ivy League-leading Harvard, Massey sees the Crimson running the table with wins over Columbia (100 percent confidence), Penn (96 percent) and Yale (82 percent). That would see Harvard go 10-0.
Stumbled across a mention that the Patriot League's Bucknell will be playing at Army next fall.
The 22-second promotional for last week's  TV broadcast of Dartmouth-Harvard: