Film At 11

Yesterday's BGA Daily featured a 1922 recording of As the Backs Go Tearing By.

And today?

You can own an original film from the 1929 Dartmouth-Yale game, won by the Elis, 16-12. From eBay (LINK):

This listing is an Antique 1929 Yale vs Dartmouth Football Game Film & Graphic Box.

This box measures about 4 inches wide, and is in very nice condition.

The film appears in nice condition however I cannot guarantee the content of the film.

The game featured Yale legend Albie Booth running for 268 yards and getting this mention by Dick Williams of the New York World:

"He was deprived of 43 yards when an official detected a Yale man in the act of sinking his teeth in the calf of a Dartmouth leg while both lay on the ground 30 yards behind the point to which the play had progressed." 

Green Alert Take: If THAT is on the film it's well worth the $59.99 asking price. 

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With just over a month left until the Calgary Stampeders open their delayed Canadian Football League season the CFL website is revving up. A recent posting about the Stamps notes that it is "reviewing every team’s depth chart as it stands to date. Note that these are not official team-issued depth charts, but projections based on insight and analysis from around the league."

Here's the site's defensive depth chart for Calgary (LINK):

It's a little hard to see but atop the right defensive end is Flo Orimolade '17.

Originally signed by the Rams, Orimolade landed in Calgary where he opened eyes with his quick-twitch pass rushing ability. Unfortunately, the former Ivy League defensive player of the year hasn't played since 2018. He missed the 2019 season with a quadriceps injury that needed surgery and the 2020 season was canceled because of COVID-19.

Orimolade and the Stampeders are scheduled to open the CFL season Aug. 7 against the Toronto Argonauts.

Green Alert Take: I have no issue with the graphic spelling of DEFENCE. It is Canada, after all. What I have a problem is writing that someone is a defencive end. That really looks weird.

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In its first home game of the 2021 season Dartmouth will face a player who is third in the nation in career touchdowns. That would be Sacred Heart tailback Julius Chestnut, who has crossed the goal line 32 times.

From Craig Haley's Twitter:

FCS active leaders in career touchdowns:

1. Daniel Smith, Campbell/Villanova: 39

2. Troy Andersen, Montana State: 34

T3. Julius Chestnut, Sacred Heart: 32

T3. Jah-Maine Martin, N.C. A&T: 32

T5. Ulonzo Gilliam Jr., UC Davis: 31

T5. Julien Gums, Nicholls: 31

T5. Quay Holmes, ETSU: 31

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Ever wonder if technology will some day allow officials to determine without debate whether the ball has crossed "the yard to gain" for a first down or "broken the plane" when it is at the bottom of a dogpile? A CBS Sports story answers that question – sorta. The story (LINK) notes that every NFL ball has embedded within it . . .

"a nickel-sized piece of technology that weighs a whole 4 grams. That radio-frequency 

identification (RFID) tag sends signals to receiver boxes set up in every NFL stadium, and metrics like height and velocity and even RPMs are measured for every single throw of every single game."

It turns out that even game officials are "tagged" via RFID.

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EXTRA POINT
I wasn't sure they would make it.

Last November I pulled a dusty AeroGarden hydroponic planter out of our basement, filled it with water and planted "cascading petunias." By Christmas week they were starting to bloom and they flowered all through winter. By mid-spring, however, they were finally starting to fade. They seemed to be nearing the end earlier this month, so we transplanted them to baskets and moved them outside with little expectation that they would thrive in their move from water to dirt:

 

Well . . . they did!