To the list of Dartmouth commitments in the next recruiting class add the name of Cayman Duncan, a 6-foot-6, 295-pound offensive lineman from the Kincaid School in Houston. He chose Dartmouth over a dozen other offers including Yale, Cornell, Nevada and Tulsa. His father, Daryl, was a 6-7 forward who played basketball at Texas A&M.
Here is Duncan's tweet announcing his commitment:
Beyond blessed! @DartFootball @CoachDaft @coachkeithclark @BTeevens #AGTG #TheWoods #GoBigGreen pic.twitter.com/kQxoM0m4nv
— Cayman Duncan (@CaymanDuncan) September 3, 2020
Thanks, as always, for the help!
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The Columbia football site has a story under the headline, Football's All-Time Top-10 Upset Victories. Among them was a 31-29 win for the Lions over Dartmouth on Nov. 6, 1971. (LINK)
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Syracuse.com has a story under the headline, Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim on Ivy League’s eligibility policy: ‘It’s silly' in which he reflects on the potential roadblock in the basketball career of his son Jimmy, the 6-9 senior forward who led Cornell in scoring last year. From the story:
“Ivy League players are all going to have to make a decision if they’ll play at all or play somewhere else next year, unless the Ivy League is willing to grant kids an extra year of eligibility, which they’ve never done — I don’t know why,” Boeheim said. “Hopefully, they will come to some reasonable decision that these kids deserve to play a fifth year because of this pandemic.”
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EXTRA POINT
Greetings from Colorado, where we still have 100-plus miles over the Rockies today before we see That Certain Dartmouth '14. We could have fought through yesterday afternoon and early evening but discretion being the better part of valor, we opted to take our time over 10,000- and 11,000-foot mountain passes, which are a challenge for our 36-year-old V-dub. We'll stop a few times on the way up to let the engine cool (and people pass us) and a few more times on the way down to give the brakes, well, a break.
We probably didn't spend more than an hour on Interstates yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed the views and sweet little towns we saw from the blue highways. The roads were almost empty, the speed limit the same as the Interstate except for a few sweet little towns and the back roads offered a chance to see a lot more than you'll ever see from the Interstate. If you've got the time, I highly recommend it. And to be honest, it probably didn't add more than 45 minutes or so to our day's drive.
It got a little crazy late in the day when hills, traffic and 95-degree heat sent the temperature gauge high enough to make me a tad nervous, but we survived.
On the one place where our local highway was cannibalized by the Interstate, Mrs. BGA shot this pic through the VW window:
Did they know we were coming, or what? Alas, we did sleep in the VW camper!
And, oh by the way . . .
Snow is in the forecast Tuesday in one of the towns we'll pass through today. I'm not making that up.
