Interestingly, part of Andrus field at Wesleyan, the football part is now known as Corwin Stadium.

Here's a nice picture and historical review of the field--even a shot of 10,000 fans watching the 1958 Trin-Wes game.


http://www.wesleyan.edu/athletics/sportsinfo/news/newsandrus125yearsold06.html

While desirous that Trinity keeps a piece of the NESCAC crown, a few things make me nervous about the team's prospects this year, having seen both their first two games:

1) Significant turnover in the coaching staff not only at the head spot but in coordinator positions, the O-line, receivers, secondary, and linebackers (6 of 10 are new this year).  No judgment being made on them here (they may turn out to be a very good staff), simply that that much turnover, despite the ascension of the D-coordinator to head coach, can make for a treacherous transition and threaten continuity, particularly when everyone else in the league is gunning for you. It takes a little time to get a coaching staff to gel well (Priore was 4-4 for his first 2 years).  On top of that, our AA defensive end captain from the last four years (Blair), was coaching at Williams this year.  I wonder what trade secrets got shared in that deal!

2) The offensive backfield experience has take a significant hit with the departure of Chandler Barnard and Carlos Baz--both contributing juniors lasy year and perhaps more significantly the absence on the field (although on the roster) of Jordan Quinones.  All these MIA's are on top of the normal turnover (e.g. two starting QB's) due to graduation.  Gennaro really doesn't have a proven or seasoned backup to give him a blow for a few downs.  As a result, opposing defenses are not seeing the mix of offensive weapons shuttling in and out that had become somewhat of a staple of the offense of the last two years.  The Williams box score showed only two players with rushing yards--McGrath (QB) and Leo.

3) Trinity's punt-kick special team is not as strong/consistent as last year's team performance. a) They miss the punting of their all-NESCAC punter from last year.   We've gave up too much field position on mediocre to bad punts in the Williams, and to a lesser degree Colby games (I didn't see the Hamilton game).  b) the snapping seems inconsistent.  Besides the bad snap in the Colby game that gave them deep field position, the punter is frequently getting slow snaps, above his shoulders--not good for smooth punts.

Generally, I think the Bants will do well, but the above aspects will make this season a little more challenging than usual.

Hello all,

I'm a 'longtime viewer, first-time poster' and hope I did this initial post right so I can share a few sites that might be of interest to some here.

http://www.courant.com/sports/college/hc-trinfoot0924.artsep24,0,3516245.story?coll=hc-headlines-sports-college

Here is an account of the Colby-Trin game Saturday.  It pretty accurately portrays the game.  As was mentioned in a few posts, both teams hurt themselves with penalties: Colby a roughing passer personal foul that kept alive a Trinity scoring drive.  Trinity returned the favor with their own facemask penalty to allow Colby to get a field goal.  And as mentioned, Trin had a kickoff TD return called back on holding.  Anyway, I believe the assessment is right that Colby is a good team, they just need to keep building confidence and momentum (and protect the QB a little more).  They had an outstanding punter, by the way.


http://www.colby.edu/athletics/teams/football/0607/index.html

Here, the White Mule fans will find the Football teams 2005 highlight video.  It's kind of neat, but does go on a little bit.  Anyway, its interesting viewing if you want to get pumped up for their next game and the rest of the season.

Finally, here is a link to the Williams weekly (I think) football show.  The production is kind of a low-budget affair, but the effort is appreciated (the only one in NESCAC doing it?) and discussion is informative and enjoyable.  Frank Uible is a guest contributor on it too--good job Frank.  Last week's preview show was taped (again I think) on Sept 21. So this week's preview of the Trin-Will game will likely be available Thurs or Friday sometime.

http://www.williams.edu/athletics/media/060921_football.php