Check out highlights of running back Rashaad Cooper, both with the University of West England Bullets last season as well as with the Big Green. Heading into the English college football season, which was curtailed in the playoffs by the pandemic after UWE won the regular season championship, the site The Drop Back posted this about the Dartmouth product (LINK):
Rashaad Cooper – Running Back (RB): Scholarship athlete Rashaad Cooper played FCS college football for the Dartmouth Big Green and comes to UWE to complete his MBA whilst playing for the Bullets. Cooper rushed for over 650 yards and six touchdowns in 2018 on his way to earning an All-Ivy League honourable mention. The nature of the Bullets offence in 2019 should allow Cooper to decimate defences with his speed and power with the Bullets often running against favourable matchups.
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The local Valley News has a column today about a former Dartmouth football player that begins this way (LINK):
As we mark the 30th anniversary of the Americans With Disability Act, let’s remember the man who helped write it. Alan Reich also put the statue of FDR in a wheelchair at his memorial in Washington, D.C., founded The National Organization on Disability, and helped make the world better for 52 million Americans with disability.
His Dartmouth College classmates remember Reich always running. He ran to his classes. He ran to football practice (first team All New England). He ran to track events (All-American in the javelin) and captained the rugby team. And he ran the senior class as its president.
A two-year football letterwinner as a halfback, Reich '52 was paralyzed in a in a swimming accident in 1962. The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine profiled him in 2015 HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
On Friday I parked our '84 VW camper van at a small lake not far from our home where I popped up the top, slid out the desk and commenced work on my middle school sports novel.
At one point I looked up and watched as a dozen or so excited children trickled out of a school bus and onto the tiny beach. They might have been second or third graders.
Each of the little ones was wearing a mask.
I watched them pull off the face coverings, frolic in the water without a care in the world and then, when the bus returned, one-by-one pull the masks back over their mouths and noses.
It made me unbelievably sad to see these innocent children – who have done absolutely nothing wrong – having to wear masks because so many of the rest of us have been so irresponsible. We should be better than that, if not for us, for them.
