From a posting by old friend TigerBlog (LINK):
(Chuck) Dibilio came to Princeton in 2011 to play football. He broke every rushing record at Nazareth High School - broke records set by his father, interestingly enough - and he then became the only Ivy League true freshman ever to rush for more than 1,000 yards.
Then, two months later, he had a stroke.Dibilio's story has been turned into a 35-minute documentary that is available on the Ivy League Digital Network free of charge. To watch it, CLICK HERE.
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This isn't new but the Huffington Post has a story headlined Practicing Without Helmets Could Make Football Safer For Players: For elite college athletes, one or two helmetless drills per week significantly reduced head impacts. The story is spun out of a study at the University of New Hampshire. Find the story HERE.Green Alert Take: Nothing earth-shattering there. Joe Paterno used to say if you took the facemasks off helmets the game would actually be safer because players would be less likely to use their heads as weapons.
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Still on the subject of player safety, a loyal BGA reader has shared a link to a brief story about a youth football league in Massachusetts that has opted to go from tackle to flag football for children through eighth grade. The Boston Globe has the story HERE.
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With Signing Day on Feb. 3 the recruiting effort ramps up in January for high school seniors as they make campus visits and weigh scholarship offers. Coming this way for a visit according to 247Sports is prized California defensive back Micah Croom, who told the site "he's still considering five schools. Stanford, Harvard, Dartmouth, Indiana and Colorado." Interesting list. Apparently he had previously committed to Utah.From the story (LINK):
He feels Dartmouth is recruiting him the hardest.
"They extended the offer first, Harvard followed. Penn recently jumped off," Croom said.
The three-star recruit is ranked as the nation's No. 48 safety and the No. 76 prospect in California in the 2016 class by 247Sports.com Composite Rankings.Find his ESPN recruiting page HERE and the Yahoo page that awards him three stars HERE.
