Numbers, You Want Numbers?

On another slow day we take a look back at a few numbers from last fall's final Ivy League football statistics:

	POINTS FOR	TD	FG	PAT	2pt	Saf	Pts	Avg
1	Harvard	32	12	39	0	0	267	26.7
2	Princeton	32	11	37	2	0	266	26.6
3	Dartmouth	34	6	39	0	0	261	26.1
4	Yale	27	4	32	3	0	212	21.2
5	Penn	24	8	23	0	0	191	19.1
6	Columbia	18	13	25	0	1	174	17.4
7	Cornell	22	3	21	2	1	168	16.8
8	Brown	17	2	38	0	0	146	14.6
	POINTS VS.	TD	FG	PAT	2pt	Saf	Pts	Avg
1	Harvard*	13	6	16	0	0	114	11.4
2	Dartmouth	13	7	15	1	2	120	12.0
3	Columbia	15	1	24	3	0	123	12.3
4	Princeton	18	2	21	0	0	135	13.5
5	Yale	18	9	31	0	0	166	16.6
6	Penn	26	11	24	1	0	215	21.5
7	Brown	27	1	52	1	1	221	22.1
8	Cornell	31	7	34	0	0	241	24.1
	* 1 Def PAT allowed
	Yards For	Rush	Pass	Plays	Yards	Avg	TD	YPG
1	Brown	1348	3119	817	4467	5.5	37	446.7
2	Dartmouth	1937	2123	629	4060	6.5	39	406.0
3	Princeton	1268	2655	725	3923	5.4	38	392.3
4	Yale	1331	2496	687	3827	5.6	36	382.7
5	Cornell	1168	2429	678	3597	5.3	24	359.7
6	Harvard	1630	1919	679	3549	5.2	36	354.9
7	Columbia	1575	1625	682	3200	4.7	28	320.0
8	Penn	1257	1757	631	3014	4.8	22	301.4
	Yards Against	Rush	Pass	Plays	Yards	Avg	TD	YPG
1	Dartmouth	1111	1599	630	2710	4.3	16	271.0
2	Princeton	733	2009	652	2742	4.2	19	274.2
3	Harvard	646	2287	708	2933	4.1	16	293.3
4	Yale	1171	2098	693	3269	4.7	30	326.9
5	Penn	1334	1943	670	3277	4.9	23	327.7
6	Columbia	1287	2313	717	3600	5.0	27	360.0
7	Cornell	1483	2131	681	3614	5.3	34	361.4
8	Brown	1786	2694	649	4480	6.9	53	448.0

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Dartmouth held open placekicking tryouts on the Friday before the Green-White Game and four days later this appeared on YouTube:

 

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EXTRA POINT
Our final stop before leaving Quebec Saturday afternoon was at a Tim Hortons on the way out of Magog to buy a box of Timbits, essentially donut holes.

A box of 20 cost $4.49 Canadian, hardly a bargain but it's a tradition that we bring some Tim Hortons home each time we cross the border.

I should probably start at the beginning. Before heading north on Saturday morning Mrs. BGA dug up a baggie of Canadian coins from our various trips to Montreal, Quebec City, the Eastern townships and British Columbia over the years.

When she went to pay for the Timbits she dug out four loonies, a quarter, two dimes and four pennies and started counting them out for the lass running the register. She got a horrified look when she got to the pennies. In heavily French-accented English, the cashier finally said, "We don't take those."

Actually they could, but apparently Tim Hortons is one of the businesses that decided to "round up," or "round down" after Canada retired the penny about a decade ago. (LINK)

We had no problem handing over $4.50 and I guess you could say swallowing the penny (and eventually the yummy Timbits ;-) but we had to laugh at the price still being quoted as $4.49 and the receipt reading, "Change Du: $0.01"

For what it's worth, if we had used a debit card we could have saved the penny. But where could we have spent it?

That's my 2¢.