Here's how the final poll shaped up:
1T - Dartmouth 9-1
1T - Harvard 9-1
1T - Pennsylvania 7-3
4 - Richmond 10-4
5 - Fordham 9-3
6 - Colgate 9-5
7 - James Madison 9-3
8 - William & Mary 9-4
9 - Duquense 8-4
10 - New Hampshire 7-5
More from the release announcing Navy as the FBS winner, Shepherd of West Virginia as the DII winner and Wesley of Delaware as the DIII winner:
Fordham University will collect the award for ECAC Football Championship Subdivision Team of the Year after posting a 9-2 record and reaching the NCAA FCS Championship tournament.Green Alert Take: OK, now I'm confused. Fordham is the FCS team of the year but finished fifth in the final poll? For some reason I'm reminded of one of those endless nights at the newspaper taking phone calls from high school basketball coaches and having one tell me, "We lost, but we are still undefeated." I wasn't buying that one, either.
For what it's worth, there was a time when the Lambert Trophy, "emblematic of supremacy in the East," was a huge thing. Undefeated Dartmouth won the award in 1965, and again in 1970, when it finished 14th in the nation and was challenged by Penn State's Joe Paterno to play the Nittany Lions in a postseason game. Dartmouth coach Bob Blackman famously responded:
"I think, with the type of player we have on this team that we would enjoy it, if it were possible, to play in a bowl game. If we did did have the chance, though, we'd like to play against a team with a better season record than Penn State."
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The Greeley Tribune writes about former two-time Dartmouth assistant coach James Jones moving from San Jose State to Northern Colorado.
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Finally, from Dartmouth Now:
The Board of Trustees voted Wednesday, Jan. 27, to establish the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth, creating the College’s first new school in more than 100 years.And . . .
The new graduate school will consolidate resources currently supporting approximately 800 students in 16 PhD programs and 12 masters programs, as well as 250 postdoctoral students, under the dean of the administratively independent school; the dean will report directly to the provost. The school, expected to open July 1, 2016, will also expand professional development resources for graduate students and postdocs.What does it all mean? From The Dartmouth:
The new school will streamline administrative oversight of the over 800 Ph.D., M.S. and M.A. students at the College, in addition to about 200 postdoctoral students. There is no plan to increase the number of graduate students, nor is any large reallocation of resources planned, Dean of Graduate Studies Jon Kull said.
