Saturday --April 2, 2011

ESPN reports that former UMass QB Dave Palazzi will replace John Dubzinski as HC of Leominster HS.

We've talked about Dave Palazzi in the past. Blog readers voted him fourth all-time UMass QB. He's still third in career completions (409) in the UMass record book.

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It's spreading. Central Arkansas to install purple and gray turf.

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In the sidebar of the blog is a link to scans of game programs from UMass football history dating from 1973 up to 1987 (so far).

Ryan Dowgin, who was a walk-on kicker for Colgate, has a collection of game programs, tickets and other Red Raider material here. He has game programs from 88 of Colgate's 120 years of football.

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The Philadelphia Examiner says Temple's BCS future will be impacted by Villanova's decision to go or not to go FBS. As we have talked before, it could have a big impact on UMass too.