An update for those of you who are going to the Dartmouth-Penn game in Philadelphia Friday night. It is recommended that you complete the PennOpen Campus Screening for COVID-19 to facilitate entering Franklin Field. From the pass description:
All University of Pennsylvania event participants, day visitors, vendors, and non-badged contractors must complete a COVID-19 screening through PennOpen Campus before arriving on campus, each day they are on campus. The screening will generate either a Green Pass required to enter University buildings, or a Red Pass which advises the individual to seek care from a health care provider. A Green Pass is valid for one day only and contains a random, three-character code generated daily to help secure the integrity of the program.
And in case you missed it, yesterday's BGA Daily included this from an earlier Penn release:
*All spectators in attendance (12 years old and above) must attest to having been vaccinated and to register their contact information in the event of a COVID exposure where follow-up from contact tracers is needed.
*Face coverings are required for all fans at all indoor and outdoor competition venues.
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This week's Teevens Teleteaser from Dartmouth Sports Publicity:
Find Dartmouth's game notes HERE and Penn's game notes HERE.
The SI What's On TV pages has a preview of the ESPNU broadcast that will feature veteran New Hampshire play-by-play announcer Eric Frede. Jack Ford, Yale '72, will handle analysis HERE.
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Dartmouth center Evan Hecimovich has been selected as one of 36 FCS finalists for the Campbell Trophy, the Heisman Trophy of scholar-athletes in football. A total of 176 players across the spectrum of the sport at the college level were chosen semifinalists. Find a Dartmouth release about Hecimovich HERE, and the National Football Foundation release HERE.
The six other Ivy Leaguers represented among the semifinalists:
Brown - Chad Broome-Webster
Columbia - Ben Mathiasmeier
Cornell - Hunter Nourzad
Harvard - Spencer Rolland
Pennsylvania - Prince Emili
Princeton - James Johnson
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Recognize this fellow?
Yes, that's Roger Federer, who was in Boston recently "to check in on the Laver Cup." (LINK)
And the hat? Federer's agent is former Dartmouth linebacker Tony Godsick '93.
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EXTRA POINT With the temperature dipping down to 37 degrees yesterday morning it was a little chilly here at the BGA World Headquarters on a quiet Vermont hillside.
At our old house on the shoulder of Moose Mountain high above Hanover I had installed programmable thermostats that would save money on heating oil by turning the heat down at night and bringing it back up early enough in the morning to make it comfortable getting ready to begin the day.
This house has radiant heating in the floors, and before we moved in our real estate agent reminded us that while radiant is very effective, you do not want to be turning the heat up and down the way we did at our old place. It takes much too long for the heat to take hold, she told us, and once it does it keeps the house at a constant temperature.
When the outside temperature got as cold as it did yesterday the radiant heat started kicking in for the first time this fall. I could tell by walking around barefoot and feeling the floor getting warm but as we knew it would, it has taken time for the radiant system to warm the house.
It's very comfortable now, although I guess if we get a week or so of warmer weather the demand for heat will decrease, the floors will cool, and we'll go through the same dance another time or two before the cold weather sets in for good.
