Ladies and gentlemen, the Dawgs are back on campus.#ATD #GoDawgs pic.twitter.com/BB0ErwXdT6— Georgia Football (@GeorgiaFootball) June 7, 2020
. . . I Googled a bit and found this:
Green Alert Take: It was only a matter of time.
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Athlon has a Craig Haley story under the headline, Five names to know in each FCS conference. (LINK)
In the Ivy League he mentions the ridiculously deep Harvard corps of running backs (Aaron Shampklin, Devin Darrington and Aidan Borquet), Brown quarterback EJ Perry, Yale QB Griffin O'Connor, Princeton coach Bob Surace and, from the story . . .
Buddy Teevens, Dartmouth coach - Always at the front of player safety, Teevens also is at the front of winning games, leading his teams to either an 8-2 or 9-1 record in five of the last six seasons.
A CAA player Dartmouth hopes to see this fall is one of five names included in the story:
Shane Simpson, Towson running back - Second in the FCS in all-purpose yards per game two years ago, Simpson returns from a knee injury with a sixth season of eligibility.•
Athlon also has a story under the headline, FCS Football: Projected FCS Playoff Qualifiers in 2020. (LINK)
The magazine picks old friend Holy Cross to win in the Patriot League and Central Connecticut State to earn the Northeast automatic bid. Athlon has New Hampshire returning to the NCAAs with an at-large bid and San Diego as the pick in the Pioneer because, with 37 consecutive conference wins, who else could it be?
And for the newbies out there, go ahead and read the full story but don't click through expecting to see who Athlon picks to represent the Ivy League. While every other Ivy League NCAA sport is allowed to go on to the playoffs, football is banned from the postseason.
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The Palm Beach Post has a story under the headline, It’s time for the College Football Hall of Fame to open its doors to Howard Schnellenberger. (LINK)
Why in the world, you might ask, is that mentioned here? Good question. Here's the answer, directly from the story (italics are mine):
Schnellenberger was 158-151-3 for a .511 winning percentage in 27 years as a college head coach. And no, he would not be the coach with the lowest winning percentage if he were inducted. That distinction belongs to Tuss McLaughry, who won 49 percent of his games at Westminster (PA), Amherst, Brown and Dartmouth from 1915 to 1954.
But ole Tuss was on the NCAA football rules committee and the executive director of the American Football Coaches Association. And he was the recipient of the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award for his service to football and has an award named after him for “service to mankind.”
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Again, as we attempt to bring you newbies into the fold, here's an updated version of an earlier post explaining the origin of The Tussle nickname:
OK, we all know that the Dartmouth-Brown football game isn't a season-ending rivalry along the lines of Penn-Princeton (in basketball and geography at least), or Columbia-Cornell (the Empire State Bowl), or Harvard-Yale (just because). No matter how the Ivy League tried to portray it (LINK), Dartmouth and Brown ended up being the red headed stepchildren of the schedule change. (Apologies to all you gingers out there.)
Truth be told, though, Dartmouth and Brown have a pretty fair series going. Until Dartmouth swept the last two meetings the teams had split the previous 30 games down the middle – 15 wins apiece. There have been some real barn burners in the past few years including last November when it took a dramatic comeback and an interception in the end zone in the final minute for the Big Green to avoid a devastating loss to Brown that would have cost the team the Ivy League championship.
2009 - Brown 14, Dartmouth 7 (overtime)
2010 - Brown 35, Dartmouth 28
2011 - Dartmouth 21, Brown 16
2012 - Brown 28, Dartmouth 24
2013 - Dartmouth 24, Brown 20
2014 - Dartmouth 44, Brown 21
2015 - Dartmouth 34, Brown 18
2016 - Brown 24, Dartmouth 21
2017 - Dartmouth 33, Brown 10
2018 - Dartmouth 49, Brown 7
2019 - Dartmouth 29, Brown 23
While most message board posters and emailers understandably lament the end of the Week 10 series with Princeton it's not going to come back. Now it's Brown, so deal with it.
To drum up a little excitement the game needs a nickname. You know, like the Red River Shootout (Texas-Oklahoma), The Backyard Brawl (Pitt-West Virginia), The Civil War (Oregon-Oregon State), The Rivalry (Lehigh-Lafayette) and my favorite, The Brawl of the Wild (Montana-Montana State).
With that in mind the Dartmouth-Brown series is now called The Tussle in honor of a man important to the programs of both schools as well as the sport of college football.
Why? Because College Football Hall of Famer Tuss McLaughry served as head coach at Brown from 1926-1940 and then moved on to Dartmouth from 1941-1954.
And because the man called they called Tuss was much more than just a coach.
Consider that, in recognition of his service as the longtime secretary-treasurer of the American Football Coaches Association, the AFCA each year presents the Tuss McLaughry Award, which is "given to a distinguished American (or Americans) for the highest distinction in service to others."
Among the winners since the award was instituted in 1964 have been Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Bob Hope, Lyndon B. Johnson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Reverend Billy Graham, Pete Rozelle, Gen. Chuck Yeager, Rudy Giuliani and Tom Osborne. The 2019 award went to Hall of Fame broadcaster Verne Lundquist. (LINK)
So goodby Princeton, hello Brown, and welcome to The Tussle.
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EXTRA POINTIn this space some time ago a nod went out to TV, radio and Internet weather folks for just how accurate their forecasts have become over time. It's easy to point out when they get it wrong but it's worth noting that it is happening less and less each year.
Ah, but it's time to quibble a bit after watching Al Roker's 7:15 a.m. forecast.
This morning Ol' Al told us that "21 million people are at risk" for a severe storm threat today.
Hey Al, are you sure it's not "20, 994,336?" Or maybe, "21,501,001?" Or 18 million? Or 23 million?
Even narrowing it down to a certain million is just plain silliness. Your forecasts have gotten so much better that you are on third base. Don't go back to second by predicting how many people are "at risk."
