Saturday, May 07, 2022

Big Day

A reminder that the Green-White Game will be held this morning on Memorial Field. Check in tonight for full coverage on BGA Premium.

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From the Dartmouth football office:

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Former Dartmouth wide receiver coach Jarrail "JJ" Jackson has bounced around quite a bit since departing Hanover but published reports suggest he's found a home as the new head coach of Texas College, an NAIA school that is an associate member of the Sooner Athletic Conference and an HBCU. Jackson is a Houston native and former star wide receiver for Oklahoma. Find a story HERE.

Find JJ's Dartmouth bio HERE.

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Colorado's Greeley Tribune has a story about new Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson giving the graduation speech at Dartmouth on June 12. From the story (LINK):

Wilson’s late father, Harrison, graduated from Dartmouth in 1977 and played football and baseball. Three of Russell Wilson’s uncles also earned degrees from Dartmouth (Benjamin ’73, John ’80 and Richard ’85).

The other Broncos-Dartmouth connection is Big Green coach Buddy Teevens, whom Nathaniel Hackett worked for at Stanford.

Actually, there’s one more connection. Two, actually.

Michael Reilly '12, was a first-team All-Ivy league receiver for the Big Green. His mother, Mary Kelly, was Denver owner Pat Bowlen's personal attorney and has served as a trustee for the franchise. And from a story last month:

"The sale of the Broncos can now proceed free and clear without interruption,” said Dan Reilly, attorney for the trustees of the Patrick D. Bowlen Trust. . ."

Dan Reilly is Michael's father.

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EXTRA POINT

An email arrived yesterday offering a few days of free access to Newspapers.com, the nation's largest online newspaper archive. For several years I've been looking for a clip of a particular story I wrote for our local daily but unfortunately the paper is not included in the service.

My old paper in Pennsylvania, however, is on the site. I spent a couple of hours yesterday rereading some of the columns I wrote as sports editor of the paper, alternately thinking, "Hey, that was pretty good," or wishing that I could go back and rewrite several others.

All the poking around the site paid off when I found a little clip that I've told people about before. It's from a column in the paper we referred to as "hatched and dispatched," basically births and discharges from the hospital, the kind of thing newspapers don't do anymore. Anyway, here's the clip and do check out the last "Discharged" entry:


OK, a little background.

Like a lot of newspapers at the time, this one was an afternoon paper Monday through Friday. Saturday was a morning paper and there was no Sunday issue.

On Friday we would work on two issues, the regular afternoon paper, which went to bed around 11 a.m. if I remember correctly, and the Saturday a.m., which we would pull together deep into Friday night with a skeleton crew, so as to not work everyone too many hours.

Given there were fewer people working "the desk" into the night Friday and the mucky-mucks were seldom there, it was a pretty relaxed atmosphere. Relaxed enough that there were a lot of laughs, including occasional funny notes shared between reporters and editors on their computer terminals.

My roommate at the time was on the "hatched and dispatched" detail and after making his calls to the hospital he shot this entry over to the editor. I absolutely remember hearing him shout over, "Did you get them all?"

The answer came back in the affirmative. But as you can see above, the editor did not get them all. Sorry to disappoint you, I was not discharged with octuplets.

The denouement: At least a few readers got in touch with the newspaper wondering why there wasn't a full-blown story about me and my octuplets. The editors were not happy, my roommate was fired and I had a story I've been telling ever since.

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