Thanks to a loyal and helpful BGA reader there's a new name on the recruiting list. Announcing via Twitter his intention to continue his academic and athletic career at Dartmouth is Ejike Adele, a 6-foot-2, 245-pound defensive end/defensive lineman from Atlanta and Westminster School. Adele was selected to the Class 3-A all-state preseason team.
Check out his commitment Tweet HERE, and his sophomore/junior highlights HERE.
Adele's Twitter feed lists offers from Davidson, the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins and Washington and Lee. He is also a weight man on the track.
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The Dartmouth recruiting class as we know it so far (corrections and additions encouraged):
• Ejike Adele, 6-2, 245, DE, Westminster School/Atlanta
• John Ballowe, 6-2, 215, LB, Collegiate School/Richmond, Va.
• James Coslet, 6-3, 255, OL/DL, Watchung Hills/Watchung, N.J.
• Cayman Duncan, 6-6, 295, OL, Kinkaid School/Houston
• Remington Gall, 6-4, 185, WR, Avon/Avon, Ind.
• Alex Geraci, 6-4, 215, TE/DE, Don Bosco/Cornwall, N.Y.
• Davis Golick, 6-2, 200, P, Woodward Academy/College Park, Ga.
• Sean Harmon, 6-5, 225, TE, Bishop Blanchet/Seattle
• Jackson Proctor, 6-2, 195, QB, Kent HS/Kentwood, Wash.
• Painter Richards-Baker, 6-2, 170, ATH, Christ SchoolArden, N.C.
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From Garrison Keillor's The Writers Almanac (LINK):
It was on this day in 1873 that the first set of football rules were drafted in America. The rules were written by representatives from three universities: Yale, Rutgers, and Princeton.
They came up with 12 rules that everyone could agree on. The rules included: six goals were needed to win a game, or a lead of two goals; there would be one referee and two judges; and no one could throw or carry the ball. Columbia agreed to these rules, and four games were played according to the new rules in the remainder of 1873.
TWA includes a link to a 2016 posting out of Princeton titled, The Changing Shape of American Football at the College of New Jersey. It tries to answer the question, "How did Princeton go from playing with approximately 25 men on the field chasing a round ball to playing with 11 men on the field chasing an oval ball?"(LINK)
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He wasn't there when the rules of the game were codified, but he didn't miss by all that much . . .
The oldest living University of Texas football letterman – and quite possibly the oldest onetime collegiate letterwinner in the nation – died Friday at age 107. John Henderson played for the Longhorns, earning his letter as a guard in 1935. He is survived by his wife, Charlotte, who is 105. They were recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest married couple in the world. (LINK)
John Henderson had attended at least one Texas game a year from 1932 until this fall. (LINK)
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While football is the topic du jour, in a normal year basketball teams would have started practice last week. With the NESCAC ("Little Ivies") canceling winter sports recently the Ivy League is now on the clock.
If the Mid Major Madness site is to be believed you might want to hold off on making plans to catch at least some of the Ancient Eight schools on the hardwood. From a story headlined Implications for a season without all or some of the Ivy League (LINK):
Basketball Insider and New York times contributor Adam Zagoria) reported that "Harvard — a perennial contender in men’s and women’s basketball — has already decided not to play and at least one other school is considering not playing. If half the league (or more) drops out, conference play becomes virtually impossible and a canceled Ivy season would be all-but-assured."
Zagoria Tweeted:
Two Ivy League schools are highly unlikely to play men's hoops this year and it's possible the whole league won't play at all.
"I have a feeling it would be the whole league isn’t going to play," said one Ivy League asst coach.
Green Alert Take: If basketball is called off you can be sure ice hockey and the rest of the winter slate of sports will be sidelined as well.
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The Dartmouth has a story under the headline, Unknown number of students removed from campus for violating COVID-19 rules. From the story (LINK):
Rumored estimates of students whose campus privileges have been revoked for the rest of the academic year due to COVID-19 violations range from dozens to a few hundred. The College has repeatedly declined to report an official number, saying only that rumored numbers have been “wildly exaggerated.”
From the story:
Although (Dean of the College Kathryn) Lively acknowledged that “this is not the first year experience that students signed up for,” she emphasized that the College hopes to “protect everyone's ability to return to the community in ways that are not leaving them open to stigmas.”
“The bottom line is, this really shouldn't be that newsworthy,” Lively said.
Green Alert Take: Oh really.
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EXTRA POINT
Each year at about this time of fall I think about something a colleague at the newspaper said to me years ago:
"Whether it needs it or not, straighten out your garage once a year."
Mrs. BGA and I took advantage of what might be one of the last nice weekends of the year to enjoy a short hike yesterday to a place called Devil's Den, and then came back to attack our garage. It will be a few more weeks until we have to move our '84 VW Westfalia poptop camper into the garage, using dollies under the wheels to jockey it sideways in the back of the building. But hey, at least now there's room to get it in there and still park our cars in each of the two bays.
Even if you don't have an antique VW bus, straighten out your garage before it gets too cold! You'll thank me later.
