Another Familiar Name

When Mike Hodgson was an assistant football coach at Dartmouth a few years back (LINK) his daughter Cassie was a fixture helping out at Big Green practices on those days when her own responsibilities as a star Hanover High School athlete allowed. Cassie even took -- and passed -- the football team's conditioning test one  year, which had to be a bit of a comeuppance for the players who failed it.

Hodgson served as sort of a hybrid trainer's assistant/team manager at Dartmouth before going on to be a scholarship softball player at the University of Maine. She interned as an athletic trainer at the Naval Academy and then earned a master of science in kinesiology and exercise science at the University of Georgia.

Cassie Hodgson is now back in the area as an athletic trainer at Colby-Sawyer College (LINK), where she works under head athletic trainer Scott Roy (LINK), another familiar name to former Dartmouth football players from his time working with the team.

As mentioned in BGA previously, Mike Hodgson co-wrote a book called, Tackling Football: A Woman's Guide to Understanding the College Game several years ago. See a story HERE.

•

Quarterback Scott Hosch passed for a touchdown and ran for a score in Harvard's spring football game yesterday. (LINK) While the graduation of Conner Hempel will give teams looking to dethrone the Ivy League champions hope, keep in mind that Hosch threw for 1,428 yards and eight touchdowns last year as a more-than-capable fill-in for Hempel, and the 6-foot-3, 205-pound junior will be back in the fall.

Find video of Harvard's spring tackle-football scrimmage HERE.

Brown supposedly had its spring game yesterday but if there's info out there I couldn't find it.

•

What I did stumble across while looking was a story about former Brown tailback John Spooney, who is completing his final year of eligibility as a successful sprinter at the University of Michigan, where he is in the School of Kinesiology. (LINK)

•

If you subscribe to BGA Premium and haven't read last night's story out of practice, by all means go do it now. Dartmouth is pioneering some serious new ground not only for the Ivy League, but for all of the FCS and much of the nation.

•

And finally, congrats to That Certain Nittany Lion junior who was the second scorer on the PSU golf club by a stroke in the first round of the Collegiate Club Golf national championships in North Carolina. He's tied for 34th in a field of 300 players from around the country. PSU is 15th of 38 teams heading into today's round.