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Speaking of videos, Penn football gets kudos from Football Scoop for using clips from a drone in its spring football highlight video in a column headlined, This is what happens when the football team and engineering department team up.Green Alert Take: The drone thing? That's old hat at Dartmouth, which was doing it a year ago. If you really want to see what happens when a football team and engineering department team up, stay tuned. No, I'm not going to spill the beans here, dummy. Oh wait. Maybe I just did.
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In a column about 13 FCS games he'd like to see, Craig Haley of The Sports Network pitches a Harvard-New Hampshire matchup.
Green Alert Take: I'd buy a ticket to that one.
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The Rutgers site On The Banks is using for a 2019 Rutgers-Princeton game to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first college football game, played between the schools on Nov. 6, 1869.
Green Alert Take: Great idea. Take the "under" on the chances of it happening and bet the house.
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The MMQB has a very nice look at Joe Linta, the Yale grad who has earned a well-deserved reputation as the agent for the overlooked, including former Dartmouth tight end Casey Cramer and now both Yale's Tyler Varga and a player from Sacred Heart, a program Linta has fallen in love with. Linta's son, Thomas, was a freshman quarterback at Brown last fall. (LINK)
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Bleacher Report has a lengthy and dramatic story about Harvard defensive end Zach Hodges under the headline, Left Parentless and Homeless, Harvard Star's Amazing Journey May Lead to the NFL. Said one onlooker at practice yesterday, "That's better than Michael Oher's story (The Blind Side)."
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The reconstruction of the grandstand at Memorial Field is moving right along. Here's a picture shot yesterday that shows more supports for the grandstand being installed near midfield.
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