Can you play 2 sports at Dartmouth and other Ivies

Being very familiar with Coach Whalen at Dartmouth, I can tell you that he probably wouldn't like your son to play football at Dartmouth if he played baseball too. I'm sure he'd be supportive and all, but he's a very organized, meticulous coach. He has a detailed fall program that players would not participate in if they were playing football. I don't know if he has dealt with this in the past, but I do know that considering how dedicated and organized his program is, I'd find it surprising if he was encouraging of players not participating.

I guess I was wondering if D1 recruiting was basically over. Sounds like it is from various message boards.

So, if my son is equally talented in football and baseball, but doesn't have anything solid yet, should he go ahead with trying for football. (He's got some D3 very interested and will go to the overnight in October, but he may want to make sure he can't play at a school like Dartmouth). If Dartmouth is basically done with recruiting will it hurt to start the process for football. (Baseball is 1st choice though)

i think being proactive from your end wouldn't hurt. the most any coach can say is no. worth a try in my book.

i would go by the old saying...the only dumb question is the one you didn't ask.

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I don't think any school is ever really done in recruiting. If the school doesn't particularly know your son at this point, it might be hard to get them to really push for him in admissions. However, if he is a good player in either sport, I'm sure the coach of that sport would want him. If he needs a coach pushing him in admissions to get him in, then I'd definitely contact the football coach. Even if he could get in on his own, I'd still contact the football coach. My earlier post was simply saying that it would probably be hard (although I don't know how hard) to do both at a school like Dartmouth.

A couple years back when my son was there Jason Blydell (sp?) played both baseball and football for Dartmouth.

I know of a couple off the top of my head that played baseball and basketball at Princeton, Chris Young and Will Venable (both by the way in MLB).

Harvard recently had a basketball/baseball player. It hurt his baseball preparation. But if you're 6'7" and bring it in the 90's the baseball coach might let it slide.

Nathan Ford at Cornell - was the starting QB for the 2006, 2007, 2008 football seasons and was also a starter on the baseball team.

All that while majoring in Engineering.

He even was mentioned on a 10/30/08 episode of "The Office"...pretty cool...

http://cornellbigred.com/news/...4.aspx?path=football

My son will be a two sport athlete (football & baseball) at a NESCAC school this year. Although there are exceptions that have been documented here, the NESCAC is definitely more conducive to two sport athletes than the Ivies. Even though I, he and most importantly his mother are thrilled with the program and now wouldn't want him anywhere else, I wonder what other choices he missed out on by concentrating only on the baseball side of recruiting. I don't think it would hurt to send tapes out to football coaches in the Ivies, but more importantly let your high school football coach know that he is interested in playing football at the next level. With my son, because his high school football coach knew that he was interested in baseball and was being recruited there, he was not mentioned to the recruiters who came to visit the school. Good luck and I empathize with you. It is a tough process with a two sport athlete. But I think those athletes are valued in the NESCAC more than anywhere else.