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FCS Conference Players of the Week
Honors from all 14 conferences.
- 5384 words - FCS News Articles, Missouri Valley Football Conference, MEAC, SoCon, Southland Conference, Pioneer Football League, Great West Conference, Big Sky Conference, CAA, Patriot League, Northeast Conference, SWAC, Big South Conference, Ivy League, Ohio Valley Conference Penn Tops Brown in OT to Stay in a Tie for Ivy Lead
The Quakers notched their first win over the Bears since 2004.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - For the 1,300th game in the Penn football program’s history, coach Al Bagnoli gave a nod to the team’s past.
The Quakers’ 14-7 overtime win at Brown yesterday featured an offense that recalled Bagnoli’s pass-heavy attack from earlier this decade, and a defense that made the final score look like something from many decades earlier.
That combination produced a result of some consequence for the present. It was the Quakers’ first win over the Bears since 2004 and their first overtime win since that same season. It also kept Penn tied with Harvard atop the Ivy League standings.
FCS Conference Players of the Week
All 14 league honors.
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All 14 league honors.
- 5060 words - FCS News Articles, Missouri Valley Football Conference, MEAC, SoCon, Southland Conference, Pioneer Football League, Great West Conference, Big Sky Conference, CAA, Patriot League, Northeast Conference, SWAC, Big South Conference, Ivy League, Ohio Valley Conference Dartmouth QB Jenny Named a Campbell (Draddy) Semifinalist
Dartmouth senior quarterback Alex Jenny (Wayland, Mass.) was selected by the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame as one of 154 semifinalists for the 2009 William V. Campbell Trophy (formerly known as the Draddy Trophy). The group of student-athletes are also candidates for the 2009 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards.
Former Dartmouth QB Hired as Director of Football Operations
Dartmouth football head coach Buddy Teevens today announced the hiring of former Big Green quarterback Brian Mann ‘02 to his staff as the Director of Football Operations. In this role Mann will oversee all administrative functions of the football office and work closely with football alumni and others to coordinate activities of the Friends of Dartmouth Football.
FCS Conference Players of the Week
All 14 league honors.
- 4757 words - FCS News Articles, Missouri Valley Football Conference, MEAC, SoCon, Southland Conference, Pioneer Football League, Big Sky Conference, CAA, Patriot League, Northeast Conference, SWAC, Big South Conference, Ivy League, Ohio Valley Conference Patriot Games: Scholarships Pose Threat to the Ivy Way
Imagine, for a second, that instead of traveling to Holy Cross tomorrow to watch Harvard take on the Crusaders, you were one of over 30,000 fans packing into a maximum-capacity Harvard Stadium as the Crimson kicked off its season against a major-conference team, say, Boston College. It’s a pleasant thought, but the reality is far more complex.
Fordham’s decision in June to begin awarding football scholarships starting with this year’s recruiting class piqued the interest of a lot of people in the Ivy League football community. The move shows a changing mentality in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS, formerly Division 1-AA), which includes the Ancient Eight.
“It’s something we’re definitely keeping an eye on because if they go scholarships—we’re talking about the league now—it will change dramatically,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy says. “The last time any Patriot League school had scholarships in that league was Holy Cross in the ’80s and ’90s. They dominated Eastern football at this level in a way that wasn’t seen before and hasn’t been seen since.”
FCS Conference Players of the Week 9/14/2009
- 4356 words - Missouri Valley Football Conference, MEAC, SoCon, Southland Conference, Pioneer Football League, Great West Conference, Big Sky Conference, CAA, Patriot League, Northeast Conference, Independents, SWAC, Big South Conference, Ivy League, Ohio Valley Conference Dartmouth Media Guide and Athletes Ready for Preseason
The 2009 Dartmouth College Football Media Guide is now available for viewing on the Dartmouth Football Web site (www.DartmouthSports.com/football) with 144 pages of updated bios on coaches and players, facts and figures on the Big Green’s opponents, a game-by-game review of last season, and information on the first 127 seasons of Dartmouth varsity football.
The guide is available just in time for the return of the athletes to campus for the start of the preseason. The first practice will take place on August 26 at 3:45 p.m. at Memorial Field. Head Coach Buddy Teevens, beginning the fifth year of his second stint as Dartmouth’s head coach and 10th overall, is determined to put last year behind and keep the team focused on what it can accomplish this year.
Harvard Voted 2009 Ivy League Preseason Favorite
For the third time in four years, Harvard was selected the favorite in the annual Ivy League Football Preseason Media Poll to win the 2009 Ivy title, announced today on the Ivy League Football Media Day Teleconference.
- 329 words - Ivy League, Brown Bears, Harvard Crimson, Penn Quakers, Yale Bulldogs Harvard Reduces Sports Travel as Ivys Cut Athletics to ‘Core’
Dartmouth College, where former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was an All Ivy football player in the 1960s, has scrapped a $15 million stadium renovation project as its sports endowment plunged as much as 18 percent.
Harvard University, the wealthiest U.S. school, shuttered its Malkin Athletic Center to save money and cut its sports travel budget. Brown University in Rhode Island is calling on private donors to fund sports projects. Construction and hiring freezes are in place at Cornell University.
The deepest recession in five decades may leave the Ivy League behind on the field. The economy is choking donations, battering endowments and threatening to eliminate some sports programs. The eight schools, which have educated 14 U.S. presidents and half of the 110 justices in Supreme Court history, have estimated endowment losses of as much as 35 percent this year.
Whitehead among final candidates on Buchanan watch list
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Norfolk State free safety Terrell Whitehead is among the four most recent candidates added to the watch list for the Buck Buchanan Award, presented annually to the top defensive player in FCS.
Whitehead, also a member of the 2008 Buchanan Award preseason watch list, is a two-time Sports Network All-American. The playmaking secondary man has 13 career interceptions and 179 career tackles to his credit.
Other players added to the list were Stephen F. Austin linebacker Jabara Williams, Gardner-Webb linebacker Jeffery Williams and Penn cornerback Chris Wynn.
- 909 words - FCS News Articles, MEAC, Southland Conference, Big South Conference, Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs, Ivy League, Penn Quakers, Norfolk State Spartans, Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks New Ivy League Commissioner Not Rushing into Football Playoff Debate
After about the third time I rephrased the same question, Robin Harris couldn’t mistake the direction of the conversation Friday.
Harris, the new executive director/commissioner of the Ivy League, who replaced Jeffrey Orleans on July 1, gently rebuked my attempts to discern whether she arrives with a predilection toward allowing the Ivy League to compete in the postseason in football. It’s one of two hot button league issues, along with a postseason league tournament in men’s and women’s basketball. Or so I thought.
“Actually, that topic (football postseason) never came up in the interview process,” said Harris, a native New Yorker who used to spend summers at Camp Hadar in Clinton and whose parents have lived in Madison for over 20 years.
Local FB Players Prepare for Next (FCS) Level
There’s a decent possibility Emmitt Terrell will be downright sick of running by the time August 17 rolls around. That’s when the former State College standout reports to Cornell for his first college practice.
In the meantime, Terrell will continue the rigorous summer conditioning and lifting regimen Cornell planned for him.
One particularly interesting workout goes like this: It starts with a 15-second all-out sprint, followed by a 45-second jog, then back to the 15-second sprint. The cycle is continued for 15 minutes. No rests. No water. No mercy.
“It’s grueling,” Terrell said. “But it whips you into real good shape.”
Dartmouth Football Game Times, Schedule Changes Announced
HANOVER, N.H. — Dartmouth College announced game times for all 10 of its football contests this fall, including the five home dates beginning with the season opener on Sept. 19 against Colgate. The first three home games will kick off at 1:30 p.m., while the final two — which take place after the end of daylight savings time — will begin at 12:30 p.m.
Ceplikas to Take Reins of Big Green Athletic Department
While the College greets new College President Jim Yong Kim on Wednesday, the athletic department will undergo its own change in leadership on July 6 when Bob Ceplikas ’78, current deputy athletic director, takes over for retiring Athletic Director Josie Harper. Ceplikas, who will serve as interim athletic director for the 2009-2010 academic year, has already begun delegating his responsibilities as deputy to others in the department, according to Dean of the College Tom Crady.
Plans to select Harper’s permanent replacement are underway, Crady said. An informal group consisting of Crady, Harper, Ceplikas, Associate Dean of the College Gordon Taylor and Drew Galbraith, associate director of athletics for compliance and administration, is currently organizing an external review of the department to begin in mid-August.
Florida HS Grad to Play Football at Harvard
The word Harvard evokes visions of ivy-covered bricks, long nights at the library and no-nonsense professors.
But to 18-year-old Donovan Celerin, it also means football.
The Brandon teen turned down Princeton and Yale to play football at Harvard University while taking pre-med classes. He’ll move out of his parents’ Brentwood Hills home in August to attend the world-renowned school.
“My friends and I used to joke about going to Harvard when we were younger,” he said. “Now it’s happening.”
Can the Ivy League Get Its Game Back?
Lackluster teams prompt calls for change; a new chief’s listening tour.
The schools of the Ivy League are among the nation’s finest and richest, with billions in endowments under their command. From law to business to medicine, they’re No. 1 in practically every department but one: sports.
Why are the Ancient Eight increasingly irrelevant in the most competitive arena of all? The short answer, the long-accepted one, is that they choose to be: that they won’t sacrifice their academic ideals by giving athletic scholarships to athletes. But other factors—like a long-standing ban on postseason football games and the schools’ academic standards for athletes—appear to be dragging the league down.
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