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2008 Schedule


Sept. 20 at Colgate

Sept. 27 UNH


Oct. 4 at Penn


Oct. 11 Yale


Oct. 18 Holy Cross


Oct. 25 at Columbia


Nov. 1 Harvard


Nov. 8 at Cornell


Nov. 15 Brown


Nov. 22 at Princeton



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Improved Depth 'Almost' Everywhere
 
Wide Receiver Is Another Story, But Teevens Says He's Not Worried

By Bruce Wood

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Aug. 27, 2008

HANOVER – After Wednesday’s first practice for the 2008 season, Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens was asked about the improving depth of his team.
  
Teevens talked about the increased number of skilled players in the secondary. (The preseason roster features 23 players there, including a whopping 13 corners.) He talked about an offensive line that for the first time in the four years he’s been back in Hanover is fully stocked with 15 of the big guys. And he talked about the quarterback position, where the Big Green now goes six deep.

He did not talk about wide receiver and with good reason.

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Added Points Total Ivy Projection


Favorites Are The Same, But There Are  Some Surprises

By Bruce Wood

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Aug. 21, 2008

HANOVER – Someone asked the other day if I was going to "cook the books," and make sure the Added Points Formula (APT) to mathematically analyze/predict the 2008 Ivy League race came up favorable with regard to Dartmouth.

My answer: no.

So how did Dartmouth fare?

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Playoffs Or An 11th Game?

Ivy Coaches Weigh In On An Imaginary 'Either-Or' Scenario

By Bruce Wood

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Aug. 14, 2008

HANOVER – You are the head coach of an Ivy League football team. It seems that every other league in the country allows its teams to play 11 games and this year some are playing 12. Your team is stuck on 10, as it has been since 1980. You are frustrated.

You are the head coach of an Ivy League football team. Every other sport in the Ivy League can go on to the postseason to prove itself against the best, but your team cannot, for reasons no one can really explain. You are frustrated.

Late one night, after your assistants have gone home to their families, you are rooting around for some reason in a dark and deserted corner of the football equipment room when you stumble across an old bottle. As you rub dust off the label to see just what some former denizen of the dungeon had been drinking a genie squirts out. While you are marveling at his physical resemblance to Warren Sapp and wishing he looked more like Barbara Eden (you are not married by the way), the big fella says he will grant you one of two wishes. But only one.

You can have an 11th game.

Or you can go to the NCAA playoffs.

What do you pick?

That was the question the Green Alert Genie popped on the Ivy League coaches at the annual media day gathering in New Haven earlier this week. The result?

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Toughest Position To Fill?
Ivy Coaches Pretty Much In Agreement

By Bruce Wood
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Aug. 13, 2008

HANOVER – And the hardest position to recruit for Ivy League coaches is ...

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The Great Financial Aid Divide
Coaches Wrestle With A Problem. Or Is It One?

By Bruce Wood
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Aug. 12, 2008

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The difference between a tremor and an earthquake depends on where your feet are planted.

That appears to be true, at least, with regard to how much upheaval there will be in the landscape of Ivy League football – in all of Ivy League athletics, for that matter – in the aftermath of sweeping reform in financial aid over the past year plus.

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Poll Positions
No Big Surprise In Annual Media Balloting

By Bruce Wood
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Aug. 12, 2008

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – There was nothing terribly surprising about the 2008 Ivy League media poll, except for one notable voting irregularity that Brown coach Phil Estes got a chuckle out of.

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