Football might not be the game of stats that baseball is, but it’s a time of year when numbers are plentiful — numbers of recruits and numbers of kids in camp.

When you see published numbers, pass them along with a link. Don’t pass second-hand information, what you heard from your buddies, etc. Give us a link.

To start things off, Maryville (Tenn.) has 129 in camp and 76 freshmen.
St. John’s has 190 at practice, down from 197 last year.
Louisiana College had 102 players report to camp.
Linfield expects 170 when camp opens.

With NFL camps having opened within the past week, player profiles are plenty — The Jackson (Tenn.) Sun focuses on UW-Stout cornerback Tony Beckham, trying to hang onto his starting spot with the Titans ahead of Adam Jones, while The Tacoma (Wash.) News-Tribune talks about Trinity (Texas) wide receiver Jerheme Urban’s “crusade for enlightenment” with the Seattle Seahawks.

Neither trains at a Division III school, however. Baltimore trains at McDaniel, Buffalo at St. John Fisher, Green Bay at St. Norbert, Indianapolis at Rose-Hulman and Kansas City at UW-River Falls. Pittsburgh trains at St. Vincent, which is neither Division III nor has football, but will be by 2007.

Last year we ran a series of front-page reader polls asking you who would win each bracket in 2004. Obviously, this type of thing is a popularity contest in a sense, as well as a measure of how many fans each team has that visit the site on a regular basis, but we’re going to look back on reader picks from 2004 anyway.
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