More National Attention

Dartmouth quarterback Dalyn Williams was already on the STATS watchlist for the outstanding offensive player in the country at the FCS level. (Find his STATS watchlist page with career and current stats HERE.)

Now Williams is one of 32 players named to the College Football Performances Awards Midseason Watchlist for its national performer of the year. Interestingly, Harvard quarterback Scott Hosch is also on that list. Find the list and more information about the CFPA awards HERE.

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Speaking of Dalyn Williams, the Columbia football blog has a posting about him that calls him . . .

. . . the Big Green's once-in-a-generation, or probably once-in-many-generations player.

The posting includes this:

You don't have to stop being a Columbia fan for even a second to still appreciate Williams and his talents. And something tells me that sometime in the coming years, you won't even have to be an Ivy fan to watch him play every fall weekend.

Find the posting HERE.

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A Harvard Crimson columnist writes (LINK):

The Crimson has taken the field five times in 2015. All five games have been Harvard routs, with an average margin of victory of 36 points. Halfway through its season, the undefeated Crimson hasn’t faced an opponent that can compete with the team for one quarter—let alone an entire game.

While acknowledging that Harvard's game against Princeton this week could be the first competitive game of the year for the Crimson, the columnist is already looking forward to next week's matchup with Dartmouth. From the story:

For the first time, Harvard will face a worthy adversary. Indeed, despite the absence of a championship pedigree for the Big Green in recent years, the Crimson would be wise to look at Dartmouth as an equal.

There's a lot more Dartmouth fans will enjoy reading including this:

If you’re a true Crimson fan, you’ve had this game circled in red on the schedule before the season even began. The championship race in the Ivy League will swing significantly based on the outcome of the heavyweight battle next Friday under the lights of Harvard Stadium.

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Linebacker Will McNamara talks with 60 Minutes.

Last night's BGA Premium report led off with a note about a crew from 60 Minutes coming to Hanover in advance of a story on safety in football. Head coach Buddy Teevens, linebacker Will McNamara, corner Vernon Harris and former defensive tackle Elliot Kastner  – an engineer helping develop the Mobile Virtual Player – all went before the camera.

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Speaking of Teevens and safety in football, the school newspaper The Dartmouth has a lengthy story about how the Dartmouth coach's approach to player safety developed. In the story Teevens talks about what he learned from Steve Spurrier, Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh and current St. Louis Rams coach Jeff Fischer.

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The UNH Insider blog has a piece about the University of New Hampshire football team's streak of appearing in the national top-25 has come to an end after a remarkable 11 years, covering 162 weeks worth of polls.

From the post (italics are mine):

UNH lost 34-18 at then-No. 24 William & Mary last Saturday and fell out of the STATS poll that was announced Monday afternoon. The Wildcats were the first team outside the Top 25, just two points behind undefeated Dartmouth, which had been unranked and moved into the No. 25 spot.

Putting the UNH streak in perspective:

With UNH's streak halted at 162, Montana inherits the record of longest run in the Top 25 at 80 weeks.

For what it's worth, Dartmouth and UNH renew their rivalry in the 2016 season opener on Sept. 17 at Memorial Field.

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The Bradenton, Fla. newspaper writes about Dartmouth offensive lineman Josh Clark (LINK):

Offensive lineman typically get noticed when something wrong happens on the football field, whether it's a missed blocking assignment or a false start penalty.

But for Bradenton Christian alum Josh Clark, he's getting noticed for how his college team is doing this year.

Dartmouth is unbeaten at 5-0, ranked No. 25 in the latest Football Championship Series (Division I-AA) STATS Poll and shares the top spot in the Ivy League with Harvard.

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Last week's Questions For Coach posting on BGA Premium drew so many questions that they've spilled over to another week. Tonight's posting will include Coach Teevens' answers to more of the best questions that you submitted. If you've got a question that is nagging at you there's still time to send it along if you hurry. Once again, I'll choose a representative sampling of what I think are the most interesting questions and present them to the coach after practice today.

Click on the link below and it should address an email to me with the subject line Questions for 
Coach.

Questions For Coach 

The previous Questions For Coach is available to everyone HERE.

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