The Colorado High School Activities Association website has a story about incoming Dartmouth running back recruit Q Jones that begins this way:
Making adult decision has defined the better part of life for Alexisius "Q" Jones.
Make no mistake, the Fountain-Fort Carson running back is still very much a kid. He flashes a childish, yet confident smile when asked about his accomplishments on the football field. But he understands the full scope of those accomplishments and how they'll help shape his life for the next 40 years after making an athletic and academic commitment to Dartmouth College.
Jones' story isn't one of consistent, big-time success on the football field. In fact, his story and current life trajectory is a story that sounds more suited for a Disney movie than anything.
"Both of my parents were in and out of jail and up until my sixth grade year, I was actually in a lot of trouble with the authorities," Jones said. "It was my dad that helped me turn my life around."
Read the full story HERE.
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March 13 – at Dayton
March 20 – Drake
March 27 – Butler
April 3 – at Morehead State
April 10 – San Diego
April 17 – at Marist
Pioneer teams will be allowed to schedule nonconference games in advance of the league schedule.
The conference release finishes with this caveat:
The PFL Presidents Council fully recognizes this is an aspirational plan given the current severe state of the coronavirus pandemic and the many unknowns in the coming months for the country, the diverse group of states in which our schools exist, and the individual PFL institutions themselves. Consequently, at their sole discretion, individual institutions may choose to opt-out of the PFL 2021 spring season at any time.
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While we're at it, here's the spring schedule for New Hampshire, which Dartmouth is slated to visit on Oct. 6:
March 6 – Albany
March 20 – Delaware
March 27 – at Villanova
April 3 – at Rhode Island
April 10 – Stony Brook
April 17 – at Maine
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Dartmouth's other nonconference opponent is Sacred Heart, which is scheduled to visit Hanover on Sept. 25. The Northeast Conference has announced its intention to play in the spring but has not yet revealed its schedule.
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What the heck, here's the fall Dartmouth schedule, which has been now been updated over there to the right:
Sept. 18 at Valparaiso
Sept. 25 Sacred Heart
Oct. 2 at Penn
Oct. 9 Yale
Oct. 16 at New Hampshire
Oct. 23 Columbia
Oct. 30 at Harvard
Nov. 6 Princeton
Nov. 13 Cornell
Nov. 20 at Brown
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Two Big Green football players get a mention in a story about the new Dartmouth Black Student-Athlete Alliance. (LINK)
Senior linebacker Naeem Morgan is producing graphics for the group and junior defensive lineman Tobi Adedara is a “head of professional development.”
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Another example of the craziness of trying to play college football this fall: The Sun Belt Conference championship game pitting No. 9 Coastal Carolina and No. 17 Louisiana-Lafayette was canceled last night because of a positive COVID-19 test.
And UCLA has now announced it will not accept a bowl invitation if one is forthcoming.
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A beautiful look at the Dartmouth campus:
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EXTRA POINT
For the second year in a row, That Certain Dartmouth '14 let us know that a high school senior for whom she served as an alumni interviewer has been accepted early decision by the college.
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I don't know about you, but when I was a kid it seemed simple. The farther north you lived, the more snow you would get. Made sense, right?
Unfortunately for kids who live in our little Vermont town that wasn't the case with this last storm. While the Hanover area got something like two feet of the white stuff and as much as 44 inches was reported within a half hour south of the college, we received a paltry eight inches. It should still be enough to guarantee us a white Christmas and made for a beautiful sunset over our driveway in this shot taken by That Certain Nittany Lion '16 (who really shouldn't be taking better pictures than his old man ;-)
