Highlights from the season-opening win at Valparaiso:
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Long snapper Josh Greene debuts his new column in The Dartmouth headlined, Inside the Hash Marks: A Long Journey HERE.
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The Daily Pennsylvanian has a look around the first Saturday of Ivy League football play HERE. The Ivy League website has a capsule look at action around the conference HERE.
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Sports Illustrated has a story headlined, Without Scholarships, Ivy League Athletes See NIL Deals As Leveling the Playing Field. No mention of Dartmouth. Here's the only mention of football (LINK):
If the NIL deals add more heat to the rivalries between the universities, Yale football coach Tony Reno, director of recruiting Jake Pelletier and the rest of the coaching staff are ready.
Reno expressed his support of the NCAA’s decision to his team early on, and Pelletier says the new opportunities could “even the playing field” when searching for the top recruits across the country. ...
“At Yale, we encourage every NIL deal. We encourage them to be creative and use their strengths as a Yale football player,” Pelletier says. “Yale kind of speaks for itself. What they can do with their endorsements is really exciting for obviously the Ivy League and for the country.”
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What is wrong with Patriot League football and how could the Ivy League's onetime sister conference have gotten so much worse after the introduction of scholarships? Lehigh Football Nation tries to get to the heart of the problem HERE. Lots of Ivy League thoughts in the piece.
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You may have heard about Kevin Kelley, the former Arkansas high school coach who doesn’t believe in punting and always onside kicks winning his first two games as head coach at Presbyterian by scores of 84-43 and 68-3. Those games were against teams from the National Collegiate Christian College Association and the NAIA.
On Saturday Kelley's Pioneer Football League team played its first FCS opponent and it's fair to say it didn't go as well. Playing a Campbell team that had dropped its last 10 games, albeit with five against FBS teams, Presbyterian lost and lost big. Like 72-0 big.
Presbyterian went for it nine times on fourth down, including once on fourth-and-22 at its own two. The Blue Hose converted twice. Here's how the fourth downs went:
Fourth-and-1 at its own 34: Interception
Fourth-and-4 at its own 31: 20-yard run for first down
Fourth-and-7 at the plus 26: loss of nine yards
Fourth-and-22 at its own 2: Completion of 18 yards
Fourth-and-6 at the plus 17: Incomplete pass
Fourth-and-11 at its own 35: Interception
Fourth-and-18 at the plus 45: Incomplete pass
Fourth-and-3 at its own 21: 5-yard run for a first down
Fourth-and-1 at its own 44: Incomplete pass
Severn interceptions and three lost fumbles didn't exactly help the Presbyterian cause.
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Former Dartmouth defensive tackle Jackson Perry '19 is a proud graduate of Nevada's national powerhouse Bishop Gorman football team. He probably wasn't smiling after Gorman's last game when it managed to blow a 24-7 lead in less than 90 seconds. Find a story HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
Leaving Dartmouth football practice and sitting in a car at the light at the Hanover Inn corner waiting to head down to the Ledyard Bridge as the sun is setting is uncomfortable this time of year. Because of where the sun is setting it's almost impossible to see through the glare in the windshield. I've been half tempted to stick my head out the side window to see when the light turns.
I was reminded of that this morning coming back from my daily hike. It's only a two-mile drive on a narrow dirt road and most of it is under heavy tree cover. But there are a couple of places where the tree canopy opens up and the low sun in the east shines directly into my eyes. Several times this morning I slowed almost to a stop because the glare was so bad that I was afraid if anyone was walking or jogging on the road I wouldn't be able to see them.
Here's my question. Why is it that we can put a man on the moon but no one has been able to develop a way for glare to be eliminated from glass? And I'm not talking about tinting at the top of the windshield (my car has that and it's useless) and don't tell me to get a good pair of sunglasses. What I want is a great mind to develop a type of glass that completely eliminates glare. And don't tell me it can't be done. Again, if you can put people on the moon you can figure it out.
