Fifth-Year Seniors Will Bolster Senior Class

Have you found yourself wondering what Memorial Field will look like this fall? I came across this post card from the mid-'60s that gives a feel for how it might look. If, as expected, the bleachers are put up in the end zone, the only real difference will be the small set up sideline bleachers at the end zone. Long-time followers of Dartmouth athletics will note Davis Rink in the upper right corner of the picture.

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I promise not to tell Coach Teevens that one of his anticipated varsity receivers for this fall caught a touchdown pass playing flag football in a muddy fundraiser on Memorial Field. Just hope he doesn't read this story in The D. ;-))

A Conversation with Buddy Teevens
I had a chance to sit with Buddy Teevens last week to talk about the status of the Dartmouth program as he looks ahead to next fall. Periodically in the next several weeks I'll post snippets from our conversation. Today he talks about having a handful of fifth-year seniors returning in wide receiver Ryan Fuselier, tailback Jason Bash, offensive lineman Mike Shannon and defensive linemen Mike Rabil and Brian Osimiri:

“I take it as a tribute to our program that the experience they had was such that they want to continue academically as well as athletically. From a coaching standpoint you come in and initiate a lot of change. You think you know where it’s going but you never really know the impact it has on an 18- to 22-year-old guy. To have a number of fifth-year players decide, despite the lack of success in recent years, that they see good things happening is a tribute to them and to our coaching staff. We have a small senior class, relatively speaking, so what we have are guys who have been through hard times and are firm in their resolve to change the face of Dartmouth football.”

With the retirement of Doug Flutie, Jay Fiedler's name is being bandied about in Patriots Nation as one of the potential backups for Tom Brady. The Boston Globe and Providence Journal both brought him up. Strangely, Jay figures in the lead of this story in Poker News. (I don't even know how to play poker, but does Green Alert search high and low for this stuff or what? :-)

Finally this: When the NCAA Football Rules Committee suggested schools have the option to cut halftime from 20 minutes to 15, not everyone was pleased as this story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer noted.

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