Here's a quiz: Who has played in the most NFL games for each Ivy League team?
The answer is posted below today's Extra Point but before you scroll ahead, here's a clue to get you started. Here are the Ivy League schools in order of which had a player appear in the most NFL games down to which school's leader appeared in the fewest games. Got it?
1. Dartmouth
2. Harvard
3. Brown
4. Penn
5. Yale
6. Columbia
7. Cornell
8. Princeton
The guess here is you'll get two of them wrong and will be completely surprised by a third.
Once again, the answer is below the video.
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On another quiet day in the BGAsphere here's one more promo piece put together in the Dartmouth football offices:
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Quiz Answer (listed by games played):
260 – Nick Lowery, K, Dartmouth ’78
260 – Nick Lowery, K, Dartmouth ’78
210 – Matt Birk, C, Harvard ’98
199 – Zak DeOssie, LS, Brown ’07
169 – Chuck Bednarik, LB/C, Penn ’49
164 – Gary Fencik, DB, Yale ’76
156 – George Starke, OT, Columbia ’73
149 – Pete Gogolak, K, Cornell ’64
102 – Carl Barisich, DT, Princeton ’73
Did you guess Reggie Williams for Dartmouth and Ryan Fitzpatrick for Harvard? Thought you might.
Williams ’76 appeared 206 games as a linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals.
And Fitz ’05, is at 165 games and counting as quarterback heading into his first season with the Washington Football Team.
Surprised that Barisich is the all-time Princeton leader? Me, too. I thought the answer might be Dennis Norman '03, but he was well behind with 74 games. Charlie Gogolak '66, had an outsized impact as a kicker in college but played in just 55 games as a pro.
Marcellus Wiley just missed catching up to George Starke at Columbia, falling nine games short at 147.
(The career information on all of these players was drawn from the Pro Football Reference website.)
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EXTRA POINT
It was on this day in 1925 that F. Scott Fizgerald's novel The Great Gatsby was published by Scribner's. The book that so many of us read as high schoolers went into the public domain on Jan. 1 of this year. (LINK)
It was on this day in 1925 that F. Scott Fizgerald's novel The Great Gatsby was published by Scribner's. The book that so many of us read as high schoolers went into the public domain on Jan. 1 of this year. (LINK)
In the event you'd like to revisit The Great Gatsby you can download it to read for free on a computer, a Kindle or any electronic device that can accept ePUB files by visiting the Gutenberg.org site HERE.
Among other authors who had books enter the public domain on Jan. 1 this year were Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Sinclair Lewis, Aldous Huxley and Agatha Christie.
