Find the Dartmouth release on Swann's honor HERE.
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A Bushnell-winning quarterback who led his team to the Ivy League championship as a senior returns to his alma mater to try to resuscitate its football program after just two years as a head coach at another school in the region. Sound familiar?Brown can only hope the hiring of James Perry works out the way the hiring of Buddy Teevens did at Dartmouth. The Providence Journal has a story about Perry turning to Brown HERE and the Brown Daily Herald has a story HERE.
Perry, who was 12-10 in two years at Bryant, was announced yesterday as the successor to Phil Estes, his coach when he was awarded the Bushnell after quarterbacking Brown to the 1999 Ivy League title with a 6-1 conference record.
Teevens was 13-9 in two years at Maine before he succeeded Joe Yukica, his coach when he won the Bushnell after quarterbacking Dartmouth to the 1978 Ivy League title with a 6-1 conference record.
Teevens took over the Big Green for the first time in 1987 and went on to guide the program to the 1990 and '91 Ivy League titles.
Perry, who helped design the Princeton offense that enabled the Tigers to set Ivy League scoring records, was on the Dartmouth staff in 2001. His brother, John, was an innovative offensive coordinator for the Big Green under John Lyons from 1999-2004. He's now the wide receivers coach for the Houston Texans. (LINK)
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Ever wonder what a Heisman ballot looks like? You are not allowed to divulge your vote before the announcement of the winner so I can't show you who got my vote but here was my ballot.
By the way, for the first time this year you needed to get a PIN from the Heisman folks before you could vote. For those of us who choose not to own a cell phone (I'm not the only one, am I?) that proved to be a bit of a headache ;-)
