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Lycoming was mentioned by the brilliant columnist (who has not one--but two-- G's in his name) under Bonus Obscure Score, noting that the weekend provided a "Lycoming 54, Delaware Valley 0" score.  He characterized the feat as a "Harmonic obscure score!" sending all of the school's English majors to the OED to find out what harmonic meant. (Well, when was the last time you read a football columnist  who--for crying out loud-- moonlights as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.) 

Easterbrook went on to describe Lycoming  as having "a solid liberal-arts reputation and a classy college-looking leafy campus!" and also compared the school as a "Tom Clancy" in a competitive college world of  Hemmingway, Faulkner, and Eugene O'Neill--high praise indeed when one realizes that Hemmingway, Faulkner and O'Neill are all--dead. 

Gregg Easterbrook is a senior editor of the  New Republic, a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly as well as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.  He is believed to be the first Brookings scholar ever to write a pro football column and certainly one of the funniest.  You can  buy his football book, Tuesday Morning Quarterback, at  http://www.amazon.com .

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