Another Quiet Day

Although it reprises a story that was posted last week, the headline over a piece on the InStyle website is revealing:

50 Women Making the World a Better Place in 2021

Former Dartmouth football assistants Callie Brownson and Jennifer King come in at Nos. 49 and 50. Find the post that draws from a conversation between the pair HERE.

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In the continuing search to provide you items of interest each day I pulled up the Ivy League Football Media Guide this morning and, sadly but not unexpectadly, found that it still hasn't been updated since the end of the 2017 season. This is a screengrab from the "media guide:"

Given that there have been records broken and all-time lists that should have been adjusted, I decided to find one section that I could be pretty sure hadn't changed since the last time the "media guide" was edited. And so . . .

Here are the TOP HEISMAN TROPHY FINISHES among Ivy League players:

Finish	Year	Name	School	Pos.
1st	1936	Larry Kelley	Yale	End
1st	1937	Clint Frank	Yale	Halfback
1st	1951	Dick Kazmaier	Princeton	Halfback
2nd	1942	Paul Governali	Columbia	Quarterback
2nd	1943	Bob Odell	Penn	Halfback
2nd	1971	Ed Marinaro	Cornell	Running Back
3rd	1938	Sid Luckman	Columbia	Quarterback
3rd	1950	Reds Bagnell	Penn	Halfback
4th	1935	Pepper Constable	Princeton	Fullback
4th	1938	Bob McLeod	Dartmouth	Halfback

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For those of you who won’t be on campus this winter and will miss the snow – as well as those who won’t miss it – a brief drive from Thayer School to Main Street in the gloaming last year:

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EXTRA POINT
This space made mention last week of Mrs. BGA getting her first COVID-19 vaccine shot and it should have been noted the next day that she reported the same soreness in her arm that she always feels after receiving her annual flu shot, and a mild headache that was gone in a day.

Speaking of the vaccine, as those of you of a certain age know, it's not the first time this country has had a nationwide effort to eradicate a disease. Sabin Oral Sundays resulted in polio essentially being wiped out in the early 1960s. From the University of Cincinnati's UC Magazine:

On three consecutive Sundays -- "Sabin Sundays" -- in 1960, millions of families lined up at churches and schools across the country to swallow a spoonful of pink syrup or a sugar cube treated with a life-saving polio vaccine, developed by UC researcher Albert Sabin.

The country somehow managed to make it work without websites crashing, without 24-hour news channels showing endless lines of people hoping the vaccine will hold out at least until they get their shot, and without caterwauling politicians.

I'm obviously not a medical person and I'm pretty sure the logistics of inoculating the better part of 325 million people with vaccines that have to be kept at subarctic temperatures are a good deal more complicated than handing out sugar cubes. If only it could be as simple as it was when the Sabin Oral Sunday enrollment form looked like this: