Gee Thanks, Lou And Bobby

Lou Holtz and Bobby Bowden are credited (blamed?) for inventing them, or at least popularizing them. Once the two coaching legends started preparing their players for opening of practice by holding drills on old wrestling mats other schools took note and started doing the same thing. Hence the name, "Mat Drills."

With spring football kicking off in less than a week, a look at Dartmouth's mat drills courtesy of the football office:

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Former Yale tailback Tyler Varga was joined by Sacred Heart safety Gordon Hill and Mike Flacco, a tight end from the University of New Haven and the Jacksonville Jaguars, in a Pro Day in Connecticut. Varga ran a so-so 4.6 in the 40 while putting up solid numbers in the other tests. 

"He's a definite draft pick. Someone's going to be very lucky to pick him up," agent Joe Linta told the New Haven Register. (LINK) Hill has also been projected as a potential draft pick. Flacco is the brother of Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco.

Linta, whose son TJ is a quarterback at Brown, was the agent for former Dartmouth tight end Casey Cramer, the seventh-round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Bucs in 2004 who played a handful of years in the NFL.

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Today's feel-good story is about the smallest high school nose guard in the nation. Smallest by a lot. Find the story HERE.

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Ivy League acceptances have gone out and when the smoke cleared Dartmouth had accepted 2,120 of 20,504 applicants, a rate of 10.3 percent. Check Dartmouth Now for the story.

Acceptance percentages compiled by Business Insider (LINK):

5.33 - Harvard

6.10 - Columbia

6.49 - Yale

6.99 - Princeton

8.49 - Brown 

9.90 - Penn

10.30 - Dartmouth

14.88 - Cornell