DDT

While big-time college football programs continue to place victories, cash and image over other things, and in at least one case take the position that institutions are too big to fail and victims can be sacrificed for the better good of the institution, hundreds of small colleges in Mayberryesque settings continue routine operations and will begin their annual round of playoffs to determine true national champions in three divisions. A few footnotes:.

Ephs shorn but remain unshorn

No walk for Williams

The DivThree Amherst Lord Jeffs beat the Williams Ephs 31-18 Saturday in one of college football’s oldest rivalry games. As reported by DDT last week, a long-standing tradition at Williams is “The Walk.” When Williams wins, the entire team walks to St. Pierre’s Barber Shop on Spring Street in Williamstown, Mass., home of the college, where a celebration breaks out and anyone wishing to have their head shaved—and some who don’t—may get a free haircut.  

    Since Amherst won, there was no walk this year and the Williams squad will remain unshorn, shaved or sheared. Something to talk about on a Monday morning in Small Town, USA, following a college football weekend.

    Amherst finished 8-0 in the New England Small College Athletic Conference.