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| Memorial Field's home stands are closed off as work begins on taking them down and replacing them for next season. (Click photos to enlarge, twice to supersize.) |
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| Your guess is as good as mine |
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| A crew works on the fence around the stadium in advance of demolition. |
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The local daily has a column reminding us that the Dartmouth faithful should be rooting hard for Yale in Saturday's matchup with Harvard. The column (LINK) ends this way:So get those blue and white pom poms ready. Because as the old proverb preaches, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Or as the Yalies would say: “We’ll leave poor Harvard behind so far/They won’t want to play us anymore.”
Boola Boola.
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Princeton's game notes for Saturday's game against Dartmouth may be found HERE. From those notes:The members of the Class of 2015 have at least a .500 record against every other school in the Ivy League, but they are winless against Dartmouth. Princeton’s last victory over the Big Green came in the 2009 finale.
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On the Princeton Football site (LINK) Jay Greenberg writes about Mike Zeuli, "one of the best linebackers in 146 years of Princeton football." From the column:Zeuli has 14 and one-half tackles for losses this season, four more than anyone else in the Ivy League. Nine tackles Saturday will put him at 200 for his career and one more sack will raise his four-year total to 10. Not bad for a once 185-pound safety and still an undersized 225-pound middle linebacker. And certainly attention-calling to a likely nomination – along with incumbent winner Zach Hodges of Harvard -- for the Asa S. Bushnell Cup as Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year.Greenberg also lists five things Princeton must do to beat Dartmouth in another entry (LINK).
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The Harvard Crimson has a long and detailed story under the headline Playing With The Rules (LINK) about how Ivy League schools game the system in a league that does not allow true redshirting. There isn't much particularly new in the well-done story for anyone who has been following the Ivy League for a while, but it will be an eye-opener for a lot of people.
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When Harvard and Yale meet Saturday it will be the first time the captains for both schools are black. Find a lengthy story HERE.
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ESPN GameDay will be at Harvard for The Game and The Yale Daily News has a Q&A with host Chris Fowler talking about this weekend. (LINK).
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As big as The Game is this year, the Lehigh-Lafayette "Rivalry" game, which made a strong push for the Saturday morning show, will draw a bigger crowd for its 150th renewal at Yankee Stadium. From the New York Times (LINK):Mark Holtzman, Yankee Stadium’s executive director for nonbaseball events) said the initial plan was to close the upper levels of the stadium and fill about 27,000 seats in the lower deck. Tickets went on sale a year in advance, and the response was immediate.
“Lo and behold, the 27,000 seats went in, like, a week,” Holtzman said. “We didn’t even take this event to Ticketmaster because the teams sold all the tickets.”
The colleges, which had emphasized their large numbers of alumni in the New York metropolitan area, actually sold more than their share of tickets, and they expect a capacity crowd of 48,000.
