The 'Academic Heisman'

Linebacker Macklin Ayers is Dartmouth's semifinalist for the Campbell Trophy, unofficially regarded as the "Academic Heisman." A Big Green senior captain, Ayers topped the Ivy League with 10 tackles per game last fall and has a 3.81 GPA majoring in sociology modified with environmental science. Find a Dartmouth press release HERE.

The National Football Foundation will name 12-14 finalists for the Campbell on Oct. 25. Ayers is bidding to join this list of previous finalists from Dartmouth:

1960 – Alan Rozycki 

1970 – Willie Bogan

1972 – Fred Radke

1976 – Pat Sullivan

1988 – Paul Sorensen

1994 – Josh Bloom

In addition to Ayers, the Ivy League semifinalists are:

Brown - OL Justin Anagonye

Columbia - RB Joey Giorgi

Cornell -LB  Jake Stebbins

Harvard - S Garrett Sharp

Pennsylvania - LB Jack Fairman

Princeton - OL Jalen Travis

Yale - DB Wande Owens

Find the full list of 201 semifinalist from all levels of college football HERE.

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The Daily Pennsylvanian has a preview of Saturday's Dartmouth-Penn game HERE. 

Find Penn's game notes HERE.

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Highlights from Dartmouth's win over Lehigh last week:

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With news of Jordan Leslie joining the Dartmouth recruiting class on Monday the unofficial list of commitments culled from Xwitter looks like this:

• DE Jackson Ashford, 6-2, 250, IMG Academy/Bradenton, Fla.

• WR/DB James Elliott, 6-2, 195, Williston Northampton/Leeds, Mass.

• DT Taylor Faalele, 6-2, 325, IMG Academy/Plymouth, Minn.

• LB Tyler Kessel, 6-1½, 215, Summit HS/Summit, N.J.

• DE Leviev Kinlock, 6-2, 235, American Heritage/Plantation, Fla.

• ATH Lou Lamar, 6-2, 185, Concordia Lutheran/Magnolia, Texas

• WR Jordan Leslie, 6-1, 180, Mullen HS/Denver, Colo.

• QB Kyle Meier, 6-3, 225, Whitesboro HS/Whitesboro, N.Y.

• OL Anthony Ndika, 6-4, 290, Loomis Chaffee/Nigeria

• LB Johnny Riley, 6-3, 210, Delbarton/Morristown, N.J.

• WR Luke Rives, 6-0, 170, Stratford HS/Houston

• TE Kristian Strong, 6-4, 225, Avon Old Farms/Avon, Conn.

• OL Julian Sutton, 6-4, 306, Loomis Chaffee/Hamden, Conn.

• OL Ryan Turk, 6-4, 280, Loyola HS/Los Angeles

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Former WCAX TV sports anchor Mike McCune '92 and Valley News writer Tris Wykes offer their thoughts about Buddy Teevens on the 94 WEEI sportsradio program Twin State Sports Night with Brett Franklin and Bill Murphy this evening. Click HERE to listen to McCune at 6:15 and Wykes at 7.

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This is pretty basic but newcomers to the Ivy League will learn a few things. Lots of recent highlights from around the league including a few too many from the game against the Japanese all-stars:

 

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EXTRA POINT
As long as the grass dries after the fog burns off, today should be my last day of mowing since our electric lawn tractor became a brick. Hooray.

Now I either have to find someone to cut the "back 40" that is way too high and too big for my walk-behind mower or buy some sheep. ;-)