A Hannukah present for Sprint Football

Actually, the announcement came last month. But as reported by Inside Higher Ed today, Post University -- a for-profit institution in New England -- will join the Collegiate Sprint Football League next fall. (Interesting fact from the article: Post's new team had a startup cost of about $400,000 and projected annual costs of $150,000.)

Penn is one of just six schools in the nation with a sprint football program, reserved for players under 172 pounds. Cornell, Princeton, Navy and Army round out the traditional bunch; Mansfield University joined the CSFL in 2008, the first new team in decades.

Here's a bit more on the history of sprint football at Penn.

And, of course, Happy Hannukah to our Jewish readers.