What Are The Chances?

On a quiet Sunday, something unusual. I'd never seen this list before but just pulled up a list of the six Dartmouth football players who have been All-Ivy League in two sports, some more than once:

• Running back Alan Rozycki '61 – Football and Lacrosse

• Quarterback Bill King '63 – Football and Lacrosse

• Linebacker Skip Cummins '76 – Football and Track & Field

• Linebacker Reggie Williams' 76 – Football and Wrestling

• Linebacker Kevin Young '77 – Football and Wrestling

• Defensive end Jeff Hickey '79 – Football and Lacrosse

Here's a question: It has been 45 years since Jeff Hickey turned the trick. Will it ever happen again in this age of sports specialization?

Green Alert Take: Given fall practices for baseball and lacrosse and spring practice for football, the best guess if it ever does would be football and track– but the odds are against it.

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Skip Cummins, by the way, has led an interesting life. The About Skip section of his website (LINK) begins this way:

Skip has lived a life full of opportunities of a lifetime at full throttle, following his maybe wrong but never in doubt philosophy. A life full of extraordinary successes and accomplishments, devastating tragedies, and spectacular mistakes and failures. All of which he owns, has embraced, and from which he has learned many valuable lessons. Both personally and professionally.

And it finishes this way:

Skip holds the distinction of receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Epilepsy Foundation while simultaneously being labeled as “the most combative CEO in America” by a Wall Street TV personality.

He's the author of the book, Mastering You From The Inside Out: Survive and Thrive, Personally and Professionally. (LINK)

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Hero Sports has a series of Xweets linking to schedules for each of the Ivy League football teams. Here is one:

Nothing unusual about that.

And here's another:

Notice anything different?

The first Xweet says (italics are mine):

Dartmouth's 2024 football schedule features seven Ivy League games and three FCS non-conference matchups.

The second says (italics are mine):

Penn's 2024 football schedule features seven Ivy League games and two FCS non-conference matchups.

Green Alert Take: Apparently I'm not the only one still trying to piece together the Penn non-conference schedule! There's no game listed on the Oct. 14 HERO schedule (LINK) and the Penn website has not updated the fall schedule.

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EXTRA POINT
Huge nod to the meteorologists who predicted the snow in these parts would start at about 10 p.m. Friday and finish around 11 p.m. Saturday with a total accumulation between 15 and 20 inches.

The snow arrived on time and ended on time. Total accumulation at our Vermont hillside home: 17 inches of pure powder.

A few shots, starting with a look through the window here at the BGA World Headquarters:

Do you think maybe we were a little optimistic putting the gas grill out a couple of weeks ago?

Sunday brunch is for the birds:

And following up on yesterday's note about the pancake breakfast. Hearty Vermonters apparently won't let a healthy snow hold them back from a hearty breakfast. Turnout was, uh, healthy.

Mrs. BGA and I walked the mile-and-a-half to the breakfast, rather than battle the snow. ;-)