The Harvard Crimson has a lengthy preview of the Harvard-Dartmouth game HERE.
The Dartmouth's Justin Kramer puts the Dartmouth-Harvard series in perspective HERE.
The self-proclaimed "Czar of the Playbook" offers a few general thoughts on the Ivy League schedule this week:
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The not-offshore wise guys have installed Harvard as a 6-point favorite over Dartmouth, a spread that must have changed dramatically after last week's games.
Elsewhere in the Ivy League Princeton is a 23.5 point favorite tonight at Cornell, Yale is favored by 1.5 over Columbia, and Penn is a one-point favorite over Brown.
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Tris Wykes, who covered my old Dartmouth beat for the Valley News before the newspaper purged itself of a number of veteran staff members, has a fine story about Big Green running quarterback Nick Howard on his Octopus Athletics website HERE. From the story:
“He’s one of the toughest kids I’ve ever coached,” said Tim Birr, Howard’s high school boss. “He doesn’t often take punishment. He dishes it out.”
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Thor Griffith, Harvard's 303-pound defensive tackle, was named this week to the Jerry Rice Award watch list. (LINK) The award is given to the nation's top freshman. The Portsmouth, N.H. product has three sacks and 4.5 tackles for loss this year with his forced fumble of Brown quarterback EJ Perry resulting in a scoop-and-score.
Green Alert Take: Just imagine if Dartmouth had kept Griffith and a Stanford linebacker from New Hampshire in state. The Big Green would have featured Thor Griffith and Thunder Keck on the same defense.
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Flag football in the Olympics? There's talk about it possibly happening HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
It was still dark when I got up this morning, and peering out the window I wondered if our first snow of the season had fallen. I knew the temperature was supposed to drop into the 20s overnight, so it was cold enough for snow, and the grass absolutely was whiteish. When I took Griff the Wonder Dog out I realized it was just the heavy fog crawling up from the valley that had painted the grass with a heavy frost. That's fine with me. The first snow will come soon enough. No need to rush it.
It was still dark when I got up this morning, and peering out the window I wondered if our first snow of the season had fallen. I knew the temperature was supposed to drop into the 20s overnight, so it was cold enough for snow, and the grass absolutely was whiteish. When I took Griff the Wonder Dog out I realized it was just the heavy fog crawling up from the valley that had painted the grass with a heavy frost. That's fine with me. The first snow will come soon enough. No need to rush it.
