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Find a story about fifth-year senior offensive lineman Jake Guidone being named an Associated Press third-team All-America selection on the Dartmouth website HERE. Find the full team listed HERE.

Guidone, who has used up his Ivy League eligibility, is mulling offers as a grad transfer. Among the schools that have offered him are Connecticut, Texas State, Kent State, Towson, James Madison and Missouri State.

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Someone who has made a decision about a grad transfer destination is tight end Robbie Mangas, who did have another potential year at Dartmouth but has opted to move on. He signed this morning with MAC member Buffalo:

Green Alert Take: Instead of opening against Valparaiso next fall, Mangas will open up against Maryland on Sept. 3. In addition to their MAC schedule, the Bulls are slated to play Coastal Carolina, UMass and Holy Cross.

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Dartmouth linebacker Jalen Mackie, who has the option of returning to Dartmouth for another season, has added a grad transfer offer from Albany.  

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Despite missing three games this fall while undergoing surgery, having to apologize for his team's role in a skirmish and walking out of SWAC press conference media day because he was called "Deion" instead of "coach," Deion Sanders was voted the Eddie Robinson FCS coach of the year after Jackson State finished 11-1. Here are the final vote tallies:

1. Deion Sanders, Jackson State: 9-7-8-10-6-123

2. K.C. Keeler, Sam Houston: 9-5-5-6-7-99

3. Randy Sanders, ETSU: 11-4-7-2-1-97

4. Troy Taylor, Sacramento State: 7-7-5-3-4-88

5.(tie) Matt Entz, North Dakota State: 1-7-3-3-2-50

5.(tie) Brent Vigen, Montana State: 1-5-5-4-2-50

7. Eric Morris, UIW: 2-2-6-3-2-44

8. Jason Simpson, UT Martin: 3-3-1-3-2-38

9. Glenn Caruso, St. Thomas: 2-3-2-0-1-29

10. Brian Bohannon, Kennesaw State: 0-2-2-4-4-26

11.(tie) Mark Ferrante, Villanova: 1-1-2-2-5-24

11.(tie) Bobby Petrino, Missouri State: 0-3-1-4-1-24

13. BUDDY TEEVENS, DARTMOUTH: 2-0-2-3-0-22

14. Colby Carthel, Stephen F. Austin: 1-1-0-3-3-18

15. Bob Chesney, Holy Cross: 1-0-1-0-5-13

16. Buddy Pough, South Carolina State: 0-0-0-0-5-5 

And here's the ballot for FCS guru Craig Haley of STATS Perform, who oversees the selection process:

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From the story (LINK):

With Dartmouth’s other half of the two-quarterback system, Derek Kyler — who was relied on as more of the throwing quarterback — graduating, that will open up more of an expansive role next season for Howard.

“I’m hoping to move into a much stronger passing role,” Howard said. “I believe I’m a capable passer. With the quarterback situation we had with (Kyler), that’s a guy you don’t want to take off the field, especially when it comes to throwing the ball. I don’t know exactly what will happen, but I feel good my role is going to develop to add a much larger part of the offense.”

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Harvard Magazine has a story headlined, Harvard Football's Stolen Ivy Title; A thrilling win in The Game was eclipsed by a stolen Ivy title. From the story (LINK):

“Karma is real,” said Tim Murphy, the Thomas Stephenson Family Coach for Harvard Football, whose record in The Game is now 19-8. “These kids played like champions. We couldn’t have asked for a better, storybook, make-things-right ending.” 

And this (italics are mine) . . .

The happy outcome was marred by the knowledge of what might, or should, have been. With the Princeton result still rankling—it forever will—Murphy had rings made for his squad that read “9-1.” That exemplifies the pride the coach felt for his resolute team.

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Jake Bobo, the wide receiver son of former Dartmouth great Mike Bobo '92, is headed to UCLA as a grad transfer. From the story (LINK):

Bobo made the All-ACC Third Team this fall and racked up several academic honors during his time at Duke. Bobo comes from long line of athletes as well, with his parents, grandparents and aunts playing football, hockey, lacrosse and field hockey at Dartmouth, SMU, New Hampshire, Harvard, Middlebury, William Smith College and Virginia over the past few decades.

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Start of an Ivy League Tweet:

Following another successful Field hockey stick and ball season that saw the league advance a team to the Final Four for the fourth time since 2016 . . .

Green Alert Take: Funny how the Ivy League is so ready to celebrate the postseason accomplishments of one team while refusing to let another compete. The Ivy League presidents should be held accountable.

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USA Today headline: (LINK):

Over 900 Cornell students test positive for COVID amid omicron concerns, finals move online

From the story:

Its COVID-19 dashboard reported 903 new student cases over the past week, more than 700 of them detected since Saturday during a post-Thanksgiving spike among vaccinated students.

Cornell’s testing identified a substantial number of samples that contained indicators of the omicron variant, officials said. 

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EXTRA POINT

Still another example of life in a small town. I stopped by our little post office yesterday before the postmaster shut down for the day at 11 a.m., because I'd found a slip in our box letting us know we had received a package too large for our PO box.

After looking around for five minutes or so the postmaster said she couldn't find it.

I was out for about an hour and when I got back home there was a message on our phone. It was the postmaster apologizing and saying she found the package and would have it for me when I come in today. I hadn't left a phone number but the postmaster was kind enough to look it up and give a call. Nice.