Happy Birthday Drew! 🎂🌲🏈 pic.twitter.com/bgFI93Vbo3
— Dartmouth Football (@DartFootball) July 24, 2020
Dartmouth's Drew Estrada celebrated his birthday last week and this week is being celebrated by Phil Steele, who named the Big Green's jack-of-all-trades to two positions on his preseason All-America team and four positions on his All-Ivy League team.
• Second team All-America all-purpose
• Fourth team All-America punt return
• First team All-Ivy League all-purpose
• Second team All-Ivy League wide receiver
• Second team All-Ivy League punt returner
• Third team All-Ivy League kickoff returner
Green Alert Take: Oh yeah, and he averaged 7.7 yards per rush last fall, the most by anyone in the Ivy League with 25 or more carries.
Dartmouth players chosen by the Phil Steele magazine for the All-Ivy League team (Dartmouth LINK):
First Team
Darren Stanley, corner
Drew Estrada all-purpose
Second Team
Drew Estrada wide receiver
Evan Hecimovich, offensive line
Nike Mermigas, defensive back
Connor Davis, kicker
Drew Estrada punt returner
Third Team
Derek Kyler, quarterback
Jake Guidone, tight end
John Paul Flores, offensive line
Seth Simmer, defensive line
DeWayne Terry, defensive back
Drew Estrada kickoff returner
The full Phil Steele All-Ivy League and All-America teams can be found HERE.
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FootballScoop has a lengthy Q&A with Brown coach James Perry talking about the unusual challenges for coaches and players this fall. (LINK) This "A" is a little poignant:
We were joking that I’ve never coached my kids in the fall, and I don’t know if they’ll even have the ability to do that, but some of those youth sports programs that they run on the weekend, maybe this will be the one time I can get involved in my 8-year-old’s flag football.
Green Alert Take: It really is a through the looking glass year when an Ivy League football coach might be calling plays on a Saturday in the fall for an 8-year-old's flag football game.
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The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference is the latest northeast league to cancel all fall sports events. Monmouth, whose FCS football team last year won championship in the Big South (go figure), is an MAAC member in other sports but has fallen in line on the gridiron and canceled its season.
Fellow MAAC member Marist, the last Dartmouth opponent from the 2020 schedule still standing , may not be for much longer. The Hudson Valley Sports Report has a story headlined, Concern Turns To Marist Football After MAAC Cancels Fall Sports. (LINK)
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Making Marist's decision a little trickier is its membership in the far-flung Pioneer Football League, which posted this yesterday (LINK)
The Pioneer Football League’s Presidents Council has determined PFL fall schedules will not include any non-conference competition and, if conducted, a conference-only schedule will not begin before September 26.
Green Alert Take: That's a head scratcher when other leagues are calling off games requiring flying and hotel stays. Marist, for example is scheduled to play this year at Drake (Iowa), Stetson (Florida), Butler (Indiana) and Morehead State (Kentucky) and to host San Diego, Dayton (Ohio) and Davidson (North Carolina). The Pioneer tends to schedule more local nonconference games and those are the contests that have been called off. Yup, another go figure.
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Elsewhere, the Division II Great Lakes Valley Conference is expected to announce today it is moving football to the spring.
On the high school level football in Virginia will begin games in March. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
Sitting on our front porch looking out over the White Mountains while we ate dinner last night we marveled yet again at how well-placed our new solar tracker is behind a line of fir trees that shields it from view.
While we can't see the tracker from inside the house or our porches we know it's there and working hard because our most recent electric report revealed that it had generated more than twice the electricity we used.
The excess electric credit can be applied to our bill (if we have one) in the winter when the tracker doesn't have as much sunlight to convert. Or it can be donated to friends, relatives or a worthy cause.
