Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Another New Name

 The third recruit to go public with his commitment to Dartmouth is Texas wide receiver Luke Rives, whose 247Sports page lists 17 offers, including FBS schools UNLV, Marshall and Louisiana Tech as well as Army, Navy and Air Force. Other Ivies on the 6-foot, 170-pound speedster's offer sheet are Columbia, Penn and Princeton.

The rising senior at Stratford High School in Houston had 24 catches for 621 yards and six touchdowns last fall, earning all-district first-team honors and second-team as a returner. He mentions his commitment on Twitter HERE.

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Josh Green, who returns in the fall as a fifth-year longsnapper, is Dartmouth's nominee for the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team, which "was established in 1992 by the College Football Association, recognizing the extra efforts made by college football players and student support staff off the field." 

Find a link to the Good Works Team release HERE.

Other Ivy nominees are Brown’s Justin Anagonye, Cornell’s Jake Stebbins, Princeton’s Nasir Cook and Yale’s Oso Ifesinachukwu. Cornell’s David Archer was nominated in the coach category.

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Former Dartmouth defensive lineman Shane Cokes, who is expected to be a major factor up front for Colorado this fall, sat for a lengthy interview with an excitable host:


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And speaking of former Dartmouth players now at the FBS level, the Syracuse SBNation site has a piece on Isaiah Johnson HERE.


There's a link to a video of Johnson recognizing a trick play to make an interception against Pittsburgh last fall:


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EXTRA POINT
With at least some rain predicted for the next six days (and our lawn and field sprouting like the weeds that in a lot of places they are) I'm feeling a little pressure to get the mowing done.

After spending a couple of hours at a summer concert on the green in the next town south of here last night, I took advantage of headlights on my little tractor to get some mowing in. I'll be back at it later today if the weather holds, which I sure hope it does for those up and down the state of Vermont who are dealing with the flooding. We are lucky we are well up a hill but others are not so fortunate.

In a perfect world I'll have the six acres cut down tonight. In the real world it will probably take until tomorrow. "Summertime . . . and the livin' is easy."