Bagnoli won nine Ivy League titles in 23 years as head coach in West Philly.
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The Jewish Journal has a Q&A with a former Dartmouth great, headlined: Interview: Jay Fiedler - The 2nd Best Jewish Quarterback of All Time. (LINK)
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The good news for the Dartmouth football team is that the Big Green won't see punishing tailback Keshaudas Spence when it takes on Sacred Heart this fall. He's finally exhausted his eligibility.The bad news is that in addition to bringing back sophomore RJ Noel – the All-NEC first-team quarterback for the past two years – the Pioneers will return senior wide receiver Tyler Dube, a two-time member of the All-NEC first team. The Sports Network reports that Dube will finish his career next year as a graduate student. (LINK)
Dube caught 79 passes for 960 yards and 16 touchdowns last year.
The Pioneers finished 9-3 and ranked 24th in the nation in 2014. Dartmouth plays host to Sacred Heart on Sept. 26.
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Football Scoop has a story under this headline: Some commissioners want to make freshmen ineligible. Is that the best idea? (LINK)
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A couple of notes on songs.First, The Dartmouth has a story (LINK) about the Dartmouth alma mater and a student who . . .
. . . "recites her own amended version of the alma mater over the silence. She waits for the lines, 'For the sons of old Dartmouth / For the daughters of Dartmouth,' and then cries out, 'And everybody else!' "The D writes that she, "raises a new concern about the lyrics of our school’s song — namely that, as it stands, the song implies a gender binary."
Um . . .
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And the second note on songs is a result of Googling up the lyrics to a Penn State fight song. Here they are in their entirety. You may get a kick out of the final stanza of The Nittany Lion:Every college has a legend
passed on from year to year,
To which they pledge allegiance
and always cherish dear.
But of all the honored idols
there’s but one that stands the test,
It’s the stately Nittany Lion
the symbol of our best.
Chorus:
HAIL! to the Lion, loyal and true.
HAIL! Alma Mater, with your white and blue.
PENN! STATE! forever, molder of men (and women),
FIGHT! for her honor — FIGHT! — and victory again.
Indiana has its Hoosiers,
Purdue its gold and black.
The Wildcats from Northwestern
and Spartans on attack.
Ohio State has its Buckeyes,
Up north, The Wolverines.
But the mighty Nittany Lions,
The best they’ve ever seen.
(Chorus)
There’s Pittsburgh with its Panther,
and Penn her Red and Blue,
Dartmouth with its Indian,
and Yale her Bulldog, too.
There’s Princeton with its Tiger,
and Cornell with its Bear.
But speaking now of victory,
We’ll get the Lion’s share.
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For what it's worth, our Internet is working . . . for the time being. Neighbors on both sides have called to find out this morning if we have service. Supposedly someone from the phone company is coming today and of course, like the toothache on the day of the dentist's appointment, the problem has temporarily subsided. ;-)
