Thursday, June 13, 2013

Overlooked

Dartmouth will be facing two linebackers this fall who made the College Football Performance Awards watch list – Penn's Dan Davis and Bucknell's Evan Byers.

Davis counted 13.6 stops for loss among his 58 tackles as a sophomore last fall.

Dartmouth's Michael Runger led the Ivy League with 98 tackles and joined Davis on the All-Ivy first team, but the CFPA overlooked him presumably because he was credited with just 1.5 tackles for loss.

The 2013 CFPA linebacker watch list:
• Jarkevis Fields, Bethune-Cookman
• Evan Byers, Bucknell
• Nick Dzubnar, Cal Poly
• Wes Dothard, Chattanooga
• Carl Robinson, The Citadel
• Quinn Backus, Coastal Carolina
• Kris Kent, Colgate
• Jeff Williams, Delaware
• Dorian Bell, Duquesne
• Anthony Brown, Eastern Kentucky
• Ronnie Hamlin, Eastern Washington
• Stephon Robertson, James Madison
• Nigel Muhammad, Lehigh
• Nick Sigmon, Liberty
• Dan Sullivan, Monmouth
• Brock Coyle, Montana
• Jordan Tripp, Montana
• Ra’a Moeakiola, Montana State
• Carlton Littlejohn, North Dakota State
• Grant Olson, North Dakota State
• Lynden Trail, Norfolk State
• Jake Farley, Northern Iowa
• Caleb Taylor, Old Dominion
• Dan Davis, Pennsylvania
• Donelle Williams, Presbyterian
• Justin Sexton, Sacred Heart
• Justin Hughes, South Carolina State
• Tyler Starr, South Dakota
• T.J. Lally, South Dakota State
• Bryan Presume, Southern Illinois
• Anthony Balancier, Southern University
• Zak Browning, Southern Utah
• Monte Gaddis, Towson
• Ben Johnson, UT-Martin
• Alvin Scioneaux, Wofford
Dartmouth receiver Victor Williams gets a mention in this Dartmouth release for his volunteer efforts with a school initiative called Find The Courage. From the release:
The non-profit program is run in area schools and gives students effective strategies to be positive leaders by promoting kindness, inclusion, encouragement, compassion and respect to all people.
Find The Courage was co-founded by Erin Rewalt '99, formerly a Dartmouth assistant women's basketball coach.
Question: Was Dartmouth football in a conference before the Ivy League?
Answer: Yes. A long time ago.

From the Wesleyan University website (italics are mine):
The fierce Wesleyan-Williams-Amherst rivalries are among the oldest in the East. In fact, they are so ancient that it is difficult to tell when the "Little Three" came into existence. A forerunner of the present group was the New England Intercollegiate Triangular League, founded in 1882. Its members were Amherst, Dartmouth, and Williams. This group lasted until 1899, when Dartmouth withdrew.