Wednesday, February 01, 2017

College Football's National Holiday Upon Us

First photo in: DE Nathanael Boone of Penn HS in Mishawaka, Ind.

It's National Signing Day and I need YOUR help to once again post photos of high school seniors "signing" with Dartmouth. To be completely accurate, they aren't signing a Letter of Intent, but they are taking part along with their teammates in very special ceremonies.

I'll be updating this site hourly (or every couple of hours if emails are slow to come in) starting at noon 10, so be sure to come back and meet the newly minuted Dartmouth commits.

To email updates, corrections on heights/weights/positions and photos/links for Signing Day CLICK HERE. That will address an email to me with the subject line, SigningDay ;-)

Thanks for your help.
Here's what I've got so far on my recruiting list. A position change or two has been noted. There are a handful of mystery commits still out there and with any luck most of them will be identified today!

24 Identified Dartmouth Recruits As Of Feb. 1, at 8 a.m.
WR Masaki Aerts, 6-2, 170, St. Peters/Jersey City, NJ*
LB/S Mac Battle, 6-1, 195, Hazel Green HS/Hazel Green, Ala.
DE Nathanael Boone, 6-3, 225, Penn HS/Mishawaka, Ind.*
OL Donny Carty ,  6-7, 265, Episcopal HS/Dallas*
DL Thomas Ciesla, 6-3, 240, Neuqua Valley HS/Naperville, Ill.
LB Tanner Cross, 6-2, 220, Northside HS/Fort Smith, Ark.
OL Sean Dowling, 6-4, 284, St. Stephens/Alexandria, VA*
RB Dakari Falconer, 5-11, 180, St. Peters/Jersey City, N.J.
OL/DL Jake Guidone, 6-4, 275, Xaverian Brothers/Westood, Mass.*
OL Evan Hecimovich, 6-3, 260, Naperville North HS/Naperville, Ill.*
S Harrison Herskowitz, 6-0, 180, Gulliver Prep/Miami
DE/TE  James "JJ" Jones, 6-4, 235, West HS/Tracy, Calif.
QB Derek Kyler, 6-1, 180, KeKalb HS/DeKalb, Ill.
RB Ethan Maenza, 6-1, 185, North Allegheny HS/North Allegheny, Pa.
WR/DB Niko Mermigas, 5-11, 180, North Allegheny HS/North Allegheny, Pa.
DB Jayden Minchew, 6-1, 175, Springdale HS/Springdale, Ark.
DE/LB Naaem Morgan, 6-2, 205, Middlesex HS/Middlesex, N.J.
DL Miles Sanders, 6-3, 290, Parkway Center/Chesterfield, Mo.
DB Darren Stanley, 6-0, 175, Conway HS/Conway, S.C.
DB DeWayne "DJ" Terry,  6-1, 174, Gulliver Prep/Hialeah, Fla.
DE Seth Walker, 6-4, 240, Manatee HS/Bradenton, Fla.
TE Holden Wilmsen, 6-4, 250, Priory HS/St. Louis*
DT Jackson Yost, 6-3, 274 Archbishop Murphy/Everett, Wash.
OL Hunter Ziegelmeyer, 6-6, 270, Covington Catholic/Park Hills, Ky.
*=confirmed early decision, others are from the Internet (mostly via Twitter).
The Mobile Virtual Player was featured Monday night on WMUR-TV's New Hampshire Chronicles. Here's the report:


Ivy League Home Football Attendance per the NCAA. (LINK)
1. Harvard 14, 742
2. Princeton 8,990
3. Yale 8,795
4. Cornell 7,445
5. Dartmouth 5,638
6. Penn 5,590
7. Columbia 5,212
8. Brown  4,419

Ivy League Home Attendance Ranked by Percentage of Capacity
1. Dartmouth 51.3 percent (11,000 capacity)
2. Harvard 47.7 (30,898)
3. Columbia 30.7 (17,000)
4. Princeton 29.9 (30,000)
5. Cornell 29.1 (25,597)
6. Brown  22.1 (20,000)
7. Yale 13.7 (64,269)
8. Penn 10.6 (52,958)

Others of interest from last year or the coming year . . .
New Hampshire, 9,630 average, 11,011 capacity, 87.5 percent
Holy Cross, 7,211, 23,500 capacity, 30.7 percent
Stetson 3,438 average, 6,000 capacity, 57.3 percent
Sacred Heart 2,375 average, 4,000 capacity, 59.4 percent