Danehy Returns To Hanover

Former Big Green player Ryan Danehy '06 is returning to Dartmouth as a coach -- a lacrosse coach. Danehy, a longsnapper on the football team, was a standout attackman for the Big Green, recording 73 goals and 11 assists as a four-year letterwinner. He has played professionally with the Chicago Machine and the Boston Cannons. Click here for the official Dartmouth release on his hiring. Find Danehy's Boston Cannons' bio here.

Justin Cottrell, Ian Wilson, Marlon Alebiosu and Josh Cohen. What do these four have in common besides Dartmouth football experience?

Go figure, but they are the Dartmouth names that show up on Frank Cooney's NFL Draft Scout pages on the web. ... Cottrell and Wilson also show up on something called Consensus Draft Services. Here are the Ivy Leaguer players that Consensus calls possible pro prospects:

• Brad Bagdis, DE, Harvard
• Desmond Bryant, DE, Harvard
• Brendan Circle, WR, Princeton
• Justin Cottrell, LB, Dartmouth
• Brandt Hollander, DT, Yale
• Jeff Monaco, OG, Yale
• Steve Morgan, K, Brown
• Liam O'Hagan, QB, Harvard
• Paul Raymond, WR, Brown
• Steven Williams, CB, Harvard
• Ian Wilson, S, Dartmouth

If you've been around the Ivy League a bit it's pretty easy to poke holes at some of these projections, but with the last games almost a month behind us and spring practice four or so months away, it's fun to have something to talk about.

The Powerline blog guys -- Dartmouth-educated attorneys -- have a piece up on poker legend Chip Reese, the Dartmouth grad who died this week. The post includes a bit about Reese betting on, and encouraging others to bet on, Ohio State against Michigan back when Reese was a student in Hanover.