It was in 1916 that Dartmouth and Georgetown met on the football field for the only time, with the Hoyas coming away a 10-0 winner in a Haverhill, Mass., stadium that still stands.
HoyaFootball.Com has a look at a contest that it calls, The game that made Georgetown a national power. Find the story HERE.
A screen grab of the Washington Post sports page from the Oct. 21 game reveals this headline:
Georgetown Furnishes Great Surprise And Takes Big Dartmouth Team Into Camp At Haverhill By 10-0 Score
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Former Buddy Teevens teammate and All-Ivy League defensive back John Carney '78, is going to run for governor of Delaware. The Democratic congressman's announcement was covered by The News Journal website HERE.Carney is expected to be on the sidelines at Georgetown Saturday. Find his congressional website HERE.
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Speaking of the Georgetown game, I received an email yesterday with this update about the sold-out game:The Georgetown ticket office said that any tickets returned to them will be available at the ticket office at 11 a.m. on game day.
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The first weekly Ivy League football release is available in PDF format HERE.
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Depth charts for Saturday's Dartmouth-Georgetown game have not been posted yet but that has become less and less important as they have become less and less realistic ;-)
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The Worcester Telegram has a look at Dick Lutsk, most recently the voice of Dartmouth football, who returns to his roots this year calling Holy Cross games. (LINK)Editor's Note: Dick had me on the football pregame show for the past several years and as color commentator Wayne Young would tell you, he always made it easy for the other person on the air with him.
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The New York Times has an exhaustive look at Al Bagnoli and the how and why of his move from a post-football job at Penn to attempting to turn around the Columbia program. Find the story HERE.Bagnoli offers a great quote about the risk-reward of his move:
“There’s no need to be politically correct; it’s been a coaches’ graveyard. I’m either going to crash and burn, or they’re going to build a statue. It’ll be one of the two.”
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Speaking of Columbia football coaches, Norries Wilson is the interim head coach at Rutgers while Kyle Flood sits out three games and pays a $50,000 fine for "improperly contacting a faculty member."NJ.com writes about Wilson, who went 17-43 at Columbia between 2006 and 2011. (LINK)
While we're at it, Bob Shoop, the Yalie who was 7-23 as head coach at Columbia from 2003-2005, has been universally praised (and well compensated after flirting with LSU) for his work as the Penn State defensive coordinator. (BIO)
Still another former Columbia coach making news this fall is Larry McElreavy, who was 2-28 in New York City between 1986 and 1988. The New Hampshire native is in his second year as head football coach at Newport (NH) High School. (LINK)
McElreavy has the Tigers off to a 2-0 start this fall, outscoring their opposition by an 83-6 count. They went 9-2 in his first year.
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Still on Columbia, the New York Daily news writes about five former Lions who were part of the school's 44-game losing streak who made good after football. From the story (LINK):They insist their time on the wrong end of the scoreboard helped mold character and offer encouragement to their current counterparts − who will try very hard this season to avoid a 31-game losing streak.
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Part III of the story about former Bucknell player Robert Naylor battling back from paralysis is on the STATS site HERE.
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Digging through the Internet and social media for information of potential recruits I sometimes shudder at some of the things intelligent kids will tweet or retweet. One prominent Dartmouth player of recent vintage could have lost the chance to attend the college because of something that he tweeted.FootballScoop has a story that includes a screen grab of a log the SMU coaches keep on each prospect's Twitter feed. (LINK) The Sept. 14 entry, for example, notes:
". . . inappropriate videos or language in his retweets."FootballScoop repeats a comment by Wyoming running backs coach Mike Bath from an earlier story:
It is absolutely unbelievable that some young men (and women when it comes to other sports) do not realize what they tweet/retweet, Facebook and Instagram is a direct reflection of themselves! I have stopped recruiting several young men in each of the last three years, because of various items/pictures that they have posted on the various social media outlets.
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Old friend New Hampshire has debuted a four-sided video scoreboard at its hockey arena. UNH Insider has the story and a quick video HERE.
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BGA Premium looked at the Dartmouth offense with coordinator Don Dobes on Tuesday and the offense with coordinator Keith Clark last night. Stories will continue every day with the Georgetown game preview and Fearless Forecast going up tomorrow.
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