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Cornell Opens 2010 Season on Staten Island
With the NFL season set to kick off tonight and the Division I season already well under way, it seems that the Ivy League is one step behind the pack. While teams like Boise State and Alabama are already staking their claims for a National Championship berth, Cornell and its fellow Ancient Eight foes are still in preparation for their season openers –– the Red’s is set to kickoff on Saturday, Sept. 18. But while the season remains over a week away, it is never too early to look ahead to what the team hopes will be a bounce-back year in 2010.
Surace out to bring winning ways back to Princeton
When Bob Surace looks around the Princeton University campus, there are many familiar things from his days as a student.
As the head football coach, he’d like everyone to get familiar with winning again.
After three straight losing seasons Surace — a former Princeton captain and 1990 graduate — was hired to get the Tigers back on track.
The Tigers open the season Sept. 18 at Lehigh. The following week, they’ll host Lafayette in their Princeton Stadium opener.
New on campus, athletes aim to make their mark
Alex Phelan quarterbacked Xaverian Brothers to a 12-0 record and a Division 1 Super Bowl title last fall, the program’s first crown since 1998. He was the Globe’s Division 1 Player of the Year after tossing 14 touchdown passes and scoring nine more.
So how did the 6-foot-1 southpaw prepare for his freshman season at Brown University?
“I spent four days a week lifting weights and the other three days doing running drills,’’ said Phelan, who joined his teammates in Providence for preseason work last Saturday. “I did a lot of speed and agility drills to get quicker and tried to add some muscle by adding more protein.’’
Early honor for Cornell’s Quinn
The former St. Joe’s football player is named a second-team All-American.
Pittsfield has raised a preseason football All-American – Cornell safety Dempsey Quinn.
Quinn, who played three sports at St. Joseph’s High School and is the son of former Springfield College standout Jack Quinn, was named to the FCS [Football Championship Series] Senior Scout Bowl preseason All-America second team.
Sempier still gets a kick out of coaching
It’s a picture-perfect dry and comfortable Saturday afternoon in mid-August. The Toyota Corolla – which has logged more than 160,000 miles while its driver traverses the Garden State in a never-ending quest to train kicking prospects – pulls up to the curb alongside Bonnel Field in West Caldwell.
As Verona native Pat Sempier exits the driver’s side door and heads to the car’s trunk in order to grab a bagful of footballs before heading out to the field, the single, unmistakable aspect one notices is not the missing hubcap on the front left tire.
Much more striking is the smile on the face of the man, 76 years young, and as excited about beginning year 52 as the state’s top kicking coach as he was when he coached early success stories like Bruce Nugent at Cedar Grove in 1963. Read more about that later on.
Football team remains optimistic despite preseason ranking
Harvard took first in the poll — announced as part of the Ivy League Football Media Day teleconference on Aug. 10 — for the fourth time in five years, notching 10 first-place votes. The University of Pennsylvania, with six first-place votes, came in second place overall, while Brown was pegged to finish third with zero first-place votes. Yale also received one vote for first place and landed fourth in the rankings. Cornell rounded out the bottom of the rankings, finishing in eighth place.
Dartmouth head coach Buddy Teevens ’79 said that though he never specifically quantifies his expectations at the beginning of a season, the team believes it can finish its upcoming season higher than seventh place.
Football recruits train for season
Although the preseason for fall sports has yet to get underway, for Cole Marcoux ’14, Clay Robbins ’14 and Andy Gay ’14 and a few other selected football players are preparing for the fall season to kick into high gear.
Football’s preseason doesn’t officially begin until Aug. 24, but Robbins, Marcoux and Gay are among a handful of athletes who are preparing early for the fall season in order to acclimate themselves to a new offense, new training and a new team.
“We’ve been doing a lot of running and lifting and getting to know some of the guys up there,” Marcoux said. “We’ve been drilling on the field, trying to build some sort of chemistry before the season.”
Cornell picked to finish last in Ivy League football poll
Coaches don’t put a lot of stock in preseason poll.
Accentuating the formidable nature of new coach Kent Austin’s rebuilding project at Cornell, the Big Red was picked to finish last in the 2010 Ivy League preseason football poll, voted on by media members across the eight-team league.
The poll was announced Tuesday, in conjunction with a conference call in which all eight head coaches addressed their teams and the status of the league heading into 2010.
For Austin, that meant addressing questions focusing on how to improve a program that went 2-8 in 2009 and ranked at or near the bottom of the league in average points per game allowed (26.8), rushing yards allowed (198.9) and turnovers (a league-high 21 interceptions), among numerous other categories.
NFF to Co-Host Asa S. Bushnell Cup Presentation
The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) and the Ivy League announced today that the organizations will co-host the 2010 presentation of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup, which honors the Ivy League Football Player of Year, in New York City as part of the festivities surrounding the 53rd NFF Annual Awards Dinner.
- 891 words - Ivy League Former UMass Standout Coen Joins Brown as Quarterback Coach
Former Rhode Island Gatorade Player of the Year and UMass standout quarterback Liam Coen has been named the quarterbacks coach at Brown in an announcement made by Bears’ head football coach Phil Estes.
The former LaSalle Academy standout joins one of the most success football coaching staffs in the nation as its quarterbacks coach following a playing sting with the Alabama Vipers of the new AFL. He will initially work with Brown’s first team All-Ivy quarterback Kyle Newhall-Caballero, who passed for 2,709 yards in 2009.
- 300 words - CAA, Massachusetts Minutemen, Ivy League, Brown Bears Penn Coach Al Bagnoli Welcomes In His 2010 Recruiting Class
A great season of football for Penn in 2009 has resulted in a great recruiting class for the 2010 season for the Quakers.
FCS Student-Athletes Amongst 2010 NFF Hampshire Honor Society Membership
DALLAS, May 4, 2010 - The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) announced today the members of the 2010 NFF Hampshire Honor Society, which is comprised of college football players from all divisions of play who each maintained a 3.2 GPA or better. A total of 620 players from 246 schools qualified for membership in the society’s fourth year, an 80 percent increase from the inaugural class in 2007.
- 3927 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, Independents, SWAC, Big South Conference, Ivy League, Ohio Valley Conference Farnham savors the 'surreal'
Buddy Farnham could vividly describe just about every inch Patriots Place — Gillette Stadium, the surrounding practice facility, even the Bass Pro Shops — from outside the ropes.
“I’ve been there so many times, sitting on that hill to watch training camp with my dad during the summer,” admitted the former Andover High receiving legend.
Walking to the practice field this past weekend, on the inside from his locker in the home team’s room for the first time was an experience that the soon-to-be Ivy League grad may never ever be able to put into words.
“It was almost surreal to be on that field,” said the 6-foot, 194-pounder. “Being in the locker-room, seeing (his name on a Patriots locker), it was really cool.”
At Penn vigil, grappling with athlete's suicide
Owen Thomas was a trusted friend, a generous teammate, and a loving son and brother who finished his junior year at college as a tragic statistic. The 21-year-old scholar athlete with a wide-open future took his life last Monday afternoon, shocking his family and an extensive community at the University of Pennsylvania.
During a candlelight vigil Thursday night attended by more than 200, Thomas was remembered for his complex personality.
“You know in football . . . we want our guys to play with great tenacity,” defensive coach Jim Schaefer said. “We tell them we want them to play with their hair on fire. Well, if you didn’t look real closely and Owen went running by, you’d swear with that red flowing hair that his hair was actually on fire.”
Defenses shine as neither side scores TD in scrimmage
As an annual tradition and an integral part of Spring football practices, the Dartmouth Green and White Football Scrimmage, held on Saturday morning, gave coaches and fans a preview of the upcoming Fall season. Both teams struggled offensively, as kicker Foley Schmidt ’12 accounted for all of the scoring — converting four field goals to help lead the White Team to a 12-0 victory at Memorial Field in front of a large crowd of Big Green faithfuls.
Schmidt was perfect on the day, making field goals from 27, 39, 46 and 47 yards.
In addition to Schmidt, Conner Kempe ’12 picked up where he left off last season and had a successful day for the White Team. Kempe completed 14-of-28 passes for 161 yards with one interception.
Kent Austin Discusses Future Plans for C.U. Football
New head football coach sits down with The Sun and talks about his strategy at the helm of the Red.
The Sun: What would you say, in general, are your goals for the 2010 season?
Kent Austin: Well obviously we want to be winners on the football field and off. We’re trying to establish a different philosophy, a different environment –– kind of a different culture here and that all working together, integrated properly, will establish a set of expectations for excellence both on and off the football field.
Princeton Announces 2010 Team Captains
Rising seniors Steven Cody and Matt Zimmerman were named co-captains for the 2010 football season, it was announced by head coach Bob Surace ‘90 following a team vote during the spring preseason. Both Cody and Zimmerman are two-year starters who will be key players on both sides of the ball next season.
Walk-on Howard ’09.5 takes unlikely path
David Howard ’09.5 slept zero hours the night before day three of the NFL draft. He didn’t yet know the Tennessee Titans would select him in the seventh round. He didn’t know which NFL city, if any, would be his next home. He didn’t know if the last four months of high-intensity training — after a lifetime of preparation — would pay off.
“I tried to put through every possible situation and every possible scenario” while lying in bed, Howard said. “I can’t even really begin to tell you what was going through my mind. It was too much.”
Still exhausted from the sleepless night, Howard received a phone call in the middle of the seventh round from the Titans. It took him until midway through the conversation to realize that the team had just drafted him.
“Great feeling,” he said. “It was wild.”
Sewall ’10 undergoes months of training for NFL contract
The first Monday after New Years Day, Bobby Sewall ’10 walked into Mike Boyle’s strength and conditioning gym for his first day of high-intensity training for the NFL. The top football talents in New England came in with him — from Boston College, the University of Massachusetts, the University of New Hampshire, Harvard and Holy Cross. The players all had the same New Years’ resolution: to make it to the NFL.
The workouts were a struggle for all of them, even though they were some of the most physically fit, successful football players in the region.
“Kids were puking the first day,” Sewall told The Herald in January. “It hasn’t been easy.”
Football prepares for upcoming season with Spring practices
Rising temperatures and students coming out of hibernation signal another Spring in Hanover. For the Big Green football team, that means the start of Spring training.
As the team looks toward the Fall, Dartmouth’s players and coaches are working hard preparing for the upcoming season.
This Saturday the team will host its annual Spring game — an intra-squad scrimmage — in which coaches and fans can catch a glimpse of what the team will look like come Fall.
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