Wednesday, July 13, 2022

The List (To Be Continued)

With camp season winding down commitment season is heating up. Here are rising high school seniors who have Tweeted their commitment to Dartmouth to date. (As always, additions and corrections are encouraged.)

• Joshua Johnson, 6-3, 230 DE, Statesboro HS/Statesboro, Ga.
• Max Livingston, 6-5, 277, OL, Grapevine HS/Colleyville, Texas
• Keoni Perkins, 6-3, 230, DE, South Grand Prairie HS/Gran Prairie, Texas
• Owen Zalc, 5-10, 155, Ksp, Green Hope HS/Cary, N.C.

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The players listed above will arrive on campus next year.

Dartmouth football's Twitter account, meanwhile, is introducing us to the freshmen who will be arriving next month. In the second part of the series we meet Zyion Brown, a 6-foot-1, 230-pound defensive back from St. Edwards High School or Lorain, Ohio:

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Craig Haley of The Analyst reports that of the 14 official FCS conference polls last summer, eight correctly predicted either the outright league champion or a team that won a share of the title. Keeping that in mind, this is what the Ivy League preseason poll looked like last August (with points and first-place votes):

1. Princeton – 113 (8)
2. Yale – 104 (6)
3. Dartmouth – 88 (1)
4. Harvard – 87
5. Penn – 61
6. Brown – 52
7. Columbia – 44 (1)
8. Cornell – 27

And here's how the season turned out with conference record and (overall record):

1. Dartmouth 6-1 (9-1)
1. Princeton 6-1 (9-1)
3. Harvard 5-2 (8-2)
4. Yale 4-3 (5-5)
4. Columbia 4-3 (7-3)
5. Penn 1-6 (3-7)
5. Brown 1-6 (2-8)
5. Cornell 1-6 (2-8)

Green Alert Take: The Ivy League poll was one of the eight that correctly identified a champion (or in this case one of the co-champions). Missed on the other co-champion ;-)

Green Alert Take II: For Penn, Brown and Cornell the three-way tie at in the standings allows their PR people to report in their preseason releases that they finished fifth in the Ivy League a year ago. Sounds a lot better than finishing tied for last, doesn’t it? Both are correct, of course.

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A constituent asked the Connecticut governor a question about the UConn Huskies football program, and here's his response:

Green Alert Take: With apologies to Jake Guidone, the Dartmouth grad transfer who will suit up this fall for the Huskies and hopefully help them climb out of the depths of the Bottom 20, the thought that comes immediately to mind on seeing Lamont's Tweet is, "Stay in your lane, Guv."

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The Statesman Journal out of Salem, Oregon has a story headlined, Becoming Track Town: How Eugene's history and culture secured the World Athletics Championships. (LINK)

The story is of interest here because it gives a lot of credit to Vin Lananna, the onetime Dartmouth cross country and distance coach who breathed new life into the Oregon program and the running scene in Eugene. The story refers to Lananna, who helped Dartmouth men's XC finish second in the NCAA championships in both 1986 and 1987, as a "visionary."

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EXTRA POINT
Spotted on a vintage VW bus last week and I couldn't have said it better myself:

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