In 2019 linebacker Jack Traynor became the ninth Dartmouth player to be named a winner of the Asa Bushnell Ivy League Player of the Year and the third Big Green defensive player to claim the honor since the conference began naming both offensive and defensive players of the year in 2011.
Asa Bushnell Ivy League Player of the Year
1970, QB Jim Chasey
1978, QB Buddy Teevens
1990, RB Shon Page
1991, RB Al Rosier
1992, QB Jay Fiedler
2010, RB Nick Schwieger
2016, LB Flo Orimolade
2018, CB Isiah Swann
2019, LB Jack Traynor
Bushnell Winners by School
Princeton 12
Harvard 11
Yale 11
Penn 9
Dartmouth 9
Cornell 5
Brown 4
Columbia 2
Dartmouth Ivy League Rookie of the Year
1982, QB Mike Caraviello
1986, WR Craig Morton
1990, QB Matt Brzica
1991, QB Jay Fiedler
2001, CB/KR Steve Jensen
2002, LB Josh Dooley
2012, QB Dalyn Williams
2016, WR Hunter Hagdorn
Rookie of the Year Winners by School
Dartmouth 9
Harvard 7
Yale 5
Penn 5
Cornell 5
Columbia 4
Brown 3
Princeton 2
And in the unlikely event you forgot (it was two years ago, remember) the last Ivy League rookie of the year was Harvard running back Aidan Borguet.
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The Analyst ( STATS) has 35 players on the preseason watchlist for its Walter Payton Award, the Heisman of the FCS, and Dartmouth will face two of them this fall.
Brown quarterback EJ Perry is joined on the watchlist by Sacred Heart running back Julius Chestnut, already a two-time finalist for the award.
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The Any Given Saturday Preseason Poll has three Ivy League opponents among its top 40 teams:
29. Sacred Heart
32. New Hampshire
T-38. Princeton
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Among FCS schools that have already reported and started preseason practice is Jacksonville State. From a story about the Gamecocks getting going (LINK):
Just 94 days after concluding their spring season in the FCS Playoffs, the Jacksonville State football team was back on the turf at Burgess-Snow Field Tuesday for the opening day of fall camp.
And . . .
The atmosphere around the stadium was more of a continuation of much of the same, as opposed to finding a completely new rhythm, as is often the case on day one. JSU was one of the few teams nationally to play in both the fall and spring semesters last season.
Jacksonville State was 3-1 last fall, defeating Florida International on Oct. 23 in its final game. It returned to the field with a win over Tennessee State on Feb. 28 and played through a May 2 loss to Delaware.
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FootballScoop has a story headlined, NCAA releases COVID-19 guidance for fall sports; Unvaccinated personnel will undergo a regular testing regiment (sic), while the vaccinated won\"t be tested unless circumstances demand it. From the story (LINK):
In short, the NCAA recommends not testing fully vaccinated Tier 1 individuals -- basically: players and anyone that comes into contact with players, including game officials -- unless circumstances require a test. For the unvaccinated, schools are instructed to test upon returning to campus and to conduct regular surveillance testing.
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247Sports has a story of our time headlined, Ohio State enters into group NIL licensing agreement to allow the sale of jerseys with names, numbers. Find the story HERE.
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| Lil Red last week |
EXTRA POINT
As much as I love our '84 VW camper, I'm not what you would call a car guy. Far from it.
That said, it wasn't easy to watch our cherry red 2016 Honda Fit head out of our driveway for the final time last evening. With our new EV we had to sell the Fit and I was thrilled that the young family who bought it seemed so pleased with their purchase. (I suppose it didn't hurt that the fellow was head coach of boarding/day school football team ;-)
Still, "Lil Red" had been a wonderfully dependable car with a mind-boggling amount of space in its hatchback and I'm going to miss it, car guy or not.
