Per Twitter the lone addition to the list of transfer portal offers made to Dartmouth football players is an offer from Indiana State to defensive back Tyron Herring. He is already holding offers from Eastern Kentucky and Chattanooga. Former Dartmouth defensive lineman TJ Simpson '20, is one of seferal Ivy League products who previously grad transferred to Indiana State.
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Freshman offensive lineman Vasean Washington gets a nice mention in a preview story about his Sprinfield High School alma mater playing in the Ohio state championship game last night with his brother Bryce on the team. Bryce was quoted in the story (LINK):
“Last week he was there. I had 15 tackles, so now I’m just trying to keep improving every week for him.”
Also featured in the story is Vasean Washington's Springfield classmate Delian Bradley, a Harvard freshman defensive back, whose brother Duncan also played in the state championship game.
Springfield dropped last night's state final to St. Edward, 28-14.
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Jeff Blackburn '91, a three-year letterwinner who posted 60 tackles as a 6-foot-3, 225-pound outside linebacker on Buddy Teevens' first Ivy League championship team in 1990, is stepping down from his role as one of the leading forces at Amazon. Find a story accompanied by a picture of him during a visit to Dartmouth HERE.
Blackburn won the Big Green's defensive Doten Award in 1988 for his play as a sophomore, and was an All-Ivy League second-team pick as a senior.
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EXTRA POINT
Yesterday's PAT about my difficulty making a simple phone call was the result of an even more frustrating issue. The call to the post office was an attempt to locate a package That Certain Dartmouth '14 had ordered for Mrs. BGA's upcoming birthday.
Here's the issue: When ordering online we regularly get a kick-back message saying our address cannot be found. Some databases will accept our correct house number and correct road, but only with the name of the town where our road originates. Given that the border between our town and the town the database suggests is one-tenth of a mile away, the idea kind of makes sense. It works.
Sometimes.
Other times it does not, and if we don't have a tracking number packages can sit unclaimed in the neighboring town post office until they are returned to sender. All because our house number, in our town, has not made it onto some national database.
When TCD'14 ordered Mrs. BGA's birthday gift several weeks ago she had it sent to our exact address. When it never arrived, she called customer support, which told her to re-order the gift, but this time to use the neighboring town address. She did that.
Yesterday I got a message from TCD'14 that the second package, the one with the nearby town address, had in fact made it to the neighboring post office, but was about to be returned to the shipper as undeliverable. When I finally got through to the post office they told me they hadn't yet shipped it out, and I could pick it up. Phew!
When I went to that PO window, sure enough they had the birthday present that had been sent to us at the correct house number and the correct road but the neighboring down. But they also surprised me with the news that they had another package for us.
Turns out it was the original package, the one with our correct town, which the retailer and TCD '14 believed had been lost – which the post office had been sitting on – which I now have to return.
Borrowing a thought from the great Tom Paxton, let me ask you, Is this any way to run an airline?
