Here's the description accompanying the video from Penn's Perlman School of Medicine posted two year ago about the Ivy League's efforts to make football safer:
In 2011, facing sharp criticism over athletes’ traumatic brain injuries in varsity football, the presidents of the Ivy League launched a system to monitor concussions. Now expanded to all varsity sports and involving the Big Ten as well, the system has become a prospective study with 2600 cases, across 27 different sports. Douglas Wiebe, PhD, a Professor of Epidemiology, and his team member Bernadette D’Alonzo lead the science in this cutting-edge collaboration with athletics—which recently yielded dramatic results in Ivy League football.
The video is just over five minutes long, it's Sunday and you've got the time so click away ;-)
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Sept. 25 Dartmouth football opponent Sacred Heart (2-1 this spring) will visit Duquesne (4-0) for the NEC automatic qualifier to the NCAA playoffs today at 2 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ESPN3. The teams opened the spring season against each other in Pittsburgh with Duquesne taking a 30-27 win.
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Should have posted this the other day but the resurrected Dartmouth golf programs have a new home at Montcalm Golf Club a little over 15 minutes from campus. Dartmouth Sports Publicity has a story HERE.
Montcalm was built by Andy Sigler ’53, who told me for a magazine story I wrote back when it was opening that he wanted the course built to the kind of standards that are maintained at a certain Georgia layout that will crown a new champion today. This is from Montcalm's website:
Montcalm possesses a sense of tranquility, rhythm and calmness for all who enjoy the game. You can miss hit a shot, send your ball into the woods, or just play poorly but Montcalm will bring you back to a peace of mind and body.
The landscape of the northern New Hampshire area provides outstanding views of mountains, valleys and lakes, as well as rolling hills of velvet green fairways and greens. One of the most picturesque aspects of the course is the varying levels of green that are created by using four different kinds of grasses and three different types of cuts for the roughs.
Dartmouth golf lost its home course when Hanover Country Club was permanently shuttered last year.
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EXTRA POINT
Jeopardy had an Ivy League category this week and it is safe to say you didn't exactly need an Ivy League degree to run the category. (Trust me on that one ;-)
- $200 – The mascot of Penn & the nickname of its sports teams is this religious one
- $400 – Begun in 1909, the Whiffenpoofs are a celebrated collegiate singing group at this university
- $600 – Woodrow Wilson had been president of Princeton & Dwight Eisenhower had been president of this NYC Ivy League school
- $800 – Chartered as Rhode Island College in 1764, it changed its name to this in 1804 to honor a major benefactor
- $1000 – Harvard banned filming of Hollywood movies after this Ryan O'Neal/Ali MacGraw tearjerker ruined trees with fake snow
