Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Best Specialist Spans

Today we'll look at kicker, punter and return specialist spans. As always, your mileage may vary.

KICKER
Columbia 2016-2022
2016 - First team: Oren Milstein
2017 - None
2018 - First team: Chris Alleyne
2019 - HM: Alex Felkins
2021 - 2nd team: Felkins
2022 - 1st team: Felkins

PUNTER
Princeton 2004-08
2004 - 2nd team: Colin McDonough
2005 - 1st team: McDonough
2006 - 1st team: McDonough
2007 - 1st team: Ryan Coyle
2008 - HM: Ryan Coyle

Columbia's had a strong punting game for the past decade as well and if the selection was best special teams overall, the Lions would be right there.

RETURNER
Columbia 2017-21
2017 - HM: Will Allen
2018 - 1st team: Mike Roussos
2019 - 1st team: Roussos
2021 - 1st team: Roussos

Dartmouth had a terrific run of returners from 2010-2015 with Shawn Abuhoff making first team in '10 and '11, Bo Patterson making honorable mention in 2013 and Ryan McManus making the first team in '14 and the second team in '15.

Tomorrow: Back to normal but not early. We aren't supposed to get in until 3 a.m. or so.