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Florida's Bradenton Herald has nice story on graduating Dartmouth offensive lineman Josh Clark. The story recounts the end of the Princeton game that gave the Big Green a share of the Ivy League title:The Big Green were tied 10-10 when Kyle Bramble caught a screen pass and raced in for a 12-yard touchdown with 24 seconds remaining.
Clark was a lead blocker on the championship-winning play.
"If you're going to go out, that's 100 percent the way that you always dream about," said Clark, a history major set to graduate in June. "Even when you're playing football as a kid in the yard, you want to win the championship on the last play. And that's how you always remember your time playing football. While it's sad to be done, I can be happy that's how it ended."
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The Plain Dealer's Cleveland.com follows up on a commitment to Dartmouth reported yesterday. From the story:St. Vincent-St. Mary senior linebacker Niko Lalos has made a verbal commitment to Dartmouth. Lalos made his announcement on Twitter.
Lalos weighed offers from several Mid-American Conference and Ivy League schools, including Davidson, Buffalo State, Columbia, Brown, Ball State, Akron, Colgate and Kent State.
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A note came this way recently about a stroke suffered by Reggie Williams '76, the all-time Dartmouth and Cincinnati Bengals great. Without knowing whether the information was public and out of respect for Williams I held off until seeing this STORY in the Orlando Sentinel. From the story:On New Year's Eve, he settled into a bar to watch the Alabama-Michigan State college playoff game. Bama's beatdown of the Spartans hadn't started yet when Williams' right arm went haywire, jerking up uncontrollably. Within minutes, the gift of speech was gone.
"I had a stroke," Williams said. "I was fortunate to get to the hospital quickly. Since then, I've been fighting to regain what was lost. It's been a scary undertaking."
Since his release from a hospital three days after the incident, Williams has managed to regain most of his speech, but now adds speech therapy to the daily grind of therapy on his legs.Also from the story:
He's gone through 24 knee surgeries, three right-knee replacements and another on his left as well as multiple knee and bone infections. He suffered a tear and rupture in his aorta in October 2014 while still living in Orlando.
