Check It Out

Curious what a potential recruit sees and does when he and his mom drop in on Dartmouth football? Florida defensive back Jordan Mills and his mom Rachel did just that last week as part of a whirlwind Ivy League recruiting trip. Check out the Dartmouth part of their trip here:

The 6-foot-1, 190-pound Mills, a rising senior at Matanzas High School, also visited Penn and Brown. To get a sense of how the visits differ from school to school, watch the entire video that includes those visits as well HERE.

Mom and son actually drove from Florida as they explain in their first video of the series, which featured a visit to Columbia. (LINK)

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The list of Ivy Leaguers either signing undrafted free agent contracts or earning tryout/minicamp invitations has swelled. Here's the latest available per an internet search:

• Brown – TB Allen Smith, Chiefs
• Dartmouth (via UConn) – OL Jake Guidone, Ravens
• Harvard (via Butler) – WR Tyler Adams, Colts
• Harvard – TB Aidan Borguet, Chiefs

• Harvard – DL Truman Jones, Chiefs
• Harvard (via Notre Dame) – DL Chris Smith, Lions
• Harvard (via UCLA) – DT Jacob Sykes, Seahawks
• Princeton – OL Henry Byrd, Broncos
• Princeton – DE/LB Matthew Jester, Rams
• Princeton – DT Uche Ndukwe, Vikings
• Yale – OL Adam Raine, Commanders

Editor's Note: There are probably a few more out there. Updates coming as they become available.

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Yesterday's listing of Ivy League draft picks since 1970 brought a couple of emails lamenting that the list didn't start one year earlier. If it had, the list would have included not one but two first-round draft picks. That 1969 Ivy League draft class:

QB Marty Domres, Columbia – San Diego Chargers, first round, ninth pick overall
RB Calvin Hill, Yale – Dallas Cowboys, first round, 24th pick overall
E/TE Bruce Weinstein, Yale – Miami Dolphins, eighth round, 193rd pick overall
DT John Sponheimer, Cornell – 10th round, 257th pick overall
QB Brian Dowling, Yale – 11th round, 277th pick overall

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Looking ahead to next fall, a HERO Sports columnist has a Dartmouth opponent in his early 2023 preseason Top-25. New Hampshire, which will host the Big Green on Sept. 26, comes in at No. 14. (LINK)

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EXTRA POINT
On the little-visited back side of my daily hike that I refer to as "The Loop," there's an outgrowth on a tree that always makes me smile because if you see it out of the corner of your eye it looks a little like a squirrel with a wild 'do' heading up the tree. Last week I did something I've often thought about doing and stuck a couple of wiggly eyes on the outgrowth.

I have no idea how many – if any – people will pass by the "squirrel" before the eyes fall off but I hope it makes them smile. ;-)