As part of the never-ending push to bring talented players to Hanover, the Dartmouth football office produced this graphic of former All-Ivy League offensive tackle Matt Kaskey, who spent most of last season with the Carolina Panthers' practice squad before being elevated to the active roster at season's end.
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Clemson is reporting 21 football players and two football staff members as testing positive for the coronavirus. (LINK)
Down Under, meanwhile, an Australian Rules football game was called off after a player who had self-quarantined for two weeks after returning from Ireland tested positive. The season had resumed just more than a week ago. (LINK)
And Nick Watney, in South Carolina for the RBC Heritage golf tournament, withdrew from the tournament before the second round after a positive test. (LINK)
Green Alert Take: Don't make those travel plans for the fall just yet.
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It's Saturday and you've got the time to check out what is billed as, "a musical celebration of the best-loved places on and about the Dartmouth campus by award-winning composer Oliver Caplan ’04, performed by the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble." In the first minute there is a still shot of Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens leading the football team onto the field:
If you stick around until the 25-minute mark (or scroll ahead as I did) you'll hear the bells of Baker Tower playing Dear Old Dartmouth and see a slide of of the Tower behind the wind ensemble. Whether by accident or intentionally, the slide is cropped just below the weather vane.
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EXTRA POINT
With no shade trees nearby, the sun baking our house all day and no air conditioning, it got a little toasty here yesterday.
Not to worry. When I headed down to our finished basement in late afternoon to catch a little Golf Channel action I actually had to grab an afghan against the cool air.
Here's something I learned: Because our upstairs TV has the ability to seamlessly pause and rewind action I've gotten a little lazy about paying attention when there are graphics on the screen. I just hit the back button and replay what I missed. Without that capability it probably wasn't until the third time they showed the full leaderboard yesterday that I knew who was winning ;-)
