From the story:
With the steady hand of a quarterback specialist as his Rutgers offensive coordinator, Nova experienced the difference fostered by the right player-coach relationship and decided it was important to replicate it as he trained for the NFL Draft.
Nova thinks he has found the next-best thing with BMartin Sports and Parabolic Performance & Rehab, where he is learning from former Miami Dolphins quarterback Jay Fiedler in a program similar to ones used by NFL starters Joe Flacco and Brian Hoyer.
"I was very excited," Nova said. "I'm soaking in all the information that he's teaching me: Footwork, separating my lower body from my upper.Read the story here.
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The annual Dartmouth Friend of Football Golf Outing is slated for Saturday, June 20. The Friends will once again have an online component of the Golf Outing auction. From a Friends mailing:We are looking for donations to help make this year's auction the best ever. Your donation could be tickets to a sporting event, a foursome at your golf course, a weekend get-away or special memorabilia. All proceeds will support Dartmouth Football.
If you have an item you would like to donate to the auction, please contact Curt Oberg '78 or Sam Hopkins (in the Dartmouth athletic department).
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FineArtAmerica is selling prints of the 1901 Dartmouth football team posing with a football painted to celebrate a season-ending, 22-0 win over Brown. Coached by Walter McCormack and captained by John O'Connor, the '01 Dartmouth team finished the year 9-1, with the only loss coming at Harvard. On the plus side of that game, while Dartmouth lost, 27-12, it was the first time the Big Green has scored in 17 games with the Cantabrigians.
The photo is available here.
There's another photo from 1957 available from FineArtAmerica here.
Go figure. You can even get the 1901 team photo on an iPhone case here.
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The NCAA will be convening a subcommittee to consider experimental rules allowing tablets or computers on the sidelines, radio contact with one player on offense and one on defense prior to a play, and helmet cams in games.While those rules would be experimental, the Rules Committee has supported possible changes regarding the time runoff when helmets come off, unsportsmanlike calls during pileups, ineligible receiver rules and illegal equipment.
Read more in the NCAA release.
