Monday, July 18, 2022

You Make The Call

An online site called College Football Network has posted its preseason All-Ivy League team. Here's who they picked (LINK)

OFFENSE
QB – Nick Howard, Dartmouth
TB – Aidan Borguet, Harvard
TB – Spencer Alston, Yale
WR – Thomas Glover, Cornell
WR – Wes Rockett, Brown
WR – Andre Iiosivas, Princeton
TE – Carson Bobo, Princeton
TE – JJ Howland, Yale
OL – Henry Byrd, Princeton
OL – Kiran Amegadjie, Yale
OL – Ben Hoitink, Penn
OL – Nick Gargiulo, Yale
OL – Alec Bank, Harvard 

DEFENSE
DL – Clay Patterson, Yale
DL – Nate Leskovec, Harvard
DL – Thor Griffith, Harvard

DL – Uche Ndukwe, Princeton
LB – Jake Stebbins, Cornell
LB – Jack Mcgowan, Harvard
LB – Junior Gafa, Brown
LB – Scott Valentas, Columbia
CB – Alex Washington, Harvard
CB – Wande Owens, Yale
S – James Herring, Harvard
S – Miles Oldacre, Yale 

SPECIAL TEAMS
K – Jonah Lipel, Harvard
P – Will Powers, Princeton
LS – Parker Lefton, Columbia
RS – Jamal Cooney, Dartmouth 

Harvard and Yale lead the way with a whopping 15 picks between them (Harvard eight, Yale seven) with Princeton claiming five. Dartmouth joins Columbia, Brown and Cornell with two apiece. Penn has just one.

Green Alert Take: What is it I always say? "Your mileage may vary." In this case, a lot. Dartmouth, for one, is seriously underrepresented.

Next in Dartmouth football's Meet the Freshman series comes Chris Corbo, a 6-foot-5, 215-pound tight end from West Essex High School and North Caldwell, N.J. Though he is listed at tight end he may fit the Harvard H-back mold even better.


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EXTRA POINT
When we discovered a wasp in our bedroom yesterday I went scurrying around looking for a glass under which to trap it, and a piece of cardboard to slide under the glass so I could free the thing outside.

In my office I found a hard plastic top from a package of CDs and then an old greeting card I'd held onto that would seal perfectly underneath it. Back to the bedroom I hurried, successfully catching the wasp and freeing it out the window.

I've mentioned before that we are big fans of the old TV show Monk. As I was putting the card I had used back on the shelf in my office I found myself thinking about THIS SCENE from a Monk episode entitled Get Well Soon, Mr. Monk.

The card I used to trap the Wasp was a Father's Day card from That Certain Dartmouth '14 and That Certain Nittany Lion '16. Mr. Monk's troublesome Polly Wolly Doodle card may have had a 10-year battery in it but I'm here to tell you this card's battery has lasted twice that long. Opening it up it belted out the "Charge" organ song  exactly the way it did when I pulled it out of the envelope probably two decades ago. Unlike Mr. Monk, this card made me smile then, and I'm smiling still. :-)