In anticipation of the draft the Montreal Alouettes website spoke with several players about their draft memories, including former Dartmouth tailback Ryder Stone '18. A screenshot from the Montreal website:
Former Dartmouth linebacker Flo Orimolade '17, meanwhile, has fans of the Calgary Stampeders excited about the coming season. From a CFL website:
On the other side, 23-year-old Folarin Orimolade is looking to win a starting job and become the next star pass rusher out of Calgary.Here's the team's preseason depth chart:
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The Naples Daily News has a blurb mentioning that Ryan Bloch, a kicker/punter from Barron Collier High School in Naples, will walk on to the Dartmouth football team.
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A Providence, R.I., TV station has a video about Brown hiring Heather Marini as an offensive quality control assistant. The AP story accompanying the video begins this way (LINK):Brown University has hired its first female football coach, the school announced Tuesday.Green Alert Take: With Callie Brownson having made headlines across the country last year when she came to Dartmouth as the first woman coach in Division I football the Brown hiring, while another step forward for women in the game, is publicized with a seriously ho-hum lede. It's a little like everyone remembering that John Glenn was the first American astronaut to orbit the earth but few remembering who was second. Give up? It was Scott Carpenter.
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Athlon has a story under the headline FCS Football: Matchups We'd Like to See in 2019. (LINK) One of those games is Harvard-New Hampshire. The column asks:Who’s ducking who? Separated by just over an hour's drive, these two New England powers haven't met since 1939.Green Alert Take: That would have been a great game several years ago and still would be a good one that I'd like to see as well.
