Worth Noting

Former Dartmouth quality control assistant Callie Brownson, who added the title of recruiting coordinator during her time in Hanover, is adding another title with the Cleveland Browns. From Cleveland.com (LINK):

Chief of Staff Callie Brownson will remain in her role but will also serve as assistant wide receivers coach.

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From a Morning Call story about coaches speaking at the upcoming Lauren’s First and Goal Clinic, the Pennsylvania-based event that has "raised over $2,271,000 in grants, donated $1,566,698 to pediatric cancer research efforts and provided $704,697 in financial assistance and services to families dealing with a pediatric cancer diagnosis" (LINK):

A few of the more prominent college coaches (taking part) are Alabama offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien, Penn State defensive coordinator Manny Diaz, Hal Mumma, the godfather of the Air Raid offense and Dartmouth assistant head coach and wide receivers coach David Shula.

Green Alert Take: Nice company! 

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Season-opening Dartmouth opponent Valparaiso has released its schedule. Prior to its Sept. 10 game at Dartmouth, Valpo will play Indiana Wesleyan and Illinois State. (LINK)

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Following up on Thursday's posting about how Dartmouth football has fared against FBS conferences (LINK), today a look at how the Big Green has done historically against DIII conferences, again as compiled by the now defunct College Football Data Warehouse:

CONFERENCE	W	L	T	PCT.	PF	PA
Centennial Football	1	1	0	.500	65	29
Eastern Collegiate Football	26	0	0	1.000	1046	27
Liberty League	15	0	1	.969	538	17
Little Three	49	10	5	.805	1324	288
Middle Atlantic States	2	0	0	1.000	67	6
New England Football	6	2	0	.750	183	61
NESCAC	90	11	7	.866	2560	406
North Coast Athletic	4	0	0	1.000	171	33
Old Dominion Athletic	1	0	0	1.000	34	6

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EXTRA POINT
I've written about this before but it's worth repeating. Weather forecasting has become remarkably accurate. It's easy to point fingers when meteorologists get it wrong but that's happening less and less.

The forecast late in the week was that we would get five-to-eight inches of snow from the wee hours of Friday morning through Friday afternoon. After heavy rain and unseasonably warm weather had melted all the snow at its base earlier in the week, here's a look at the snow stick in our front yard this morning:

And here's our birdfeeder, where camera battery read "exhausted" when I tried to get another shot just as a bird landed and started eating.