Practice Begins Next Week

A quick look at the Dartmouth preseason schedule:
Aug. 21 - Players from more than 500 miles away report
Aug. 22. - Official return date for everyone else
1:30 p.m. - testing
4 p.m. - team meeting
Aug. 23 - 6:30 a.m. - Conditioning test, strength testing. Practice
Aug. 24 - Additional strength testing. Practice
Aug. 25-Sept. 2 - Practice
Sept. 3 - Day off
Sept. 4-9 - Practice
Sept. 10 - Off until evening meetings
Sept. 11-15 - Game week
Sept. 16 - Opener at Colgate

I don't yet have a full copy of the official practice schedule and times but I'll post information from it when I do. As was the case last year, I'll be posting full practice reports on the premium Green Alert site after each sesson.

Cornell has already begun practice. (The Big Red isn't getting in extra practices -- but instead is spreading them out more than other Ivy League schools that report later.)

An earlier posting mentioned that Dartmouth would be webcasting home football games this year. A couple more details:

• The filming will be done by Daniel Crowe, a professional videographer from White River Junction, Vt., who has been filming Dartmouth football and other sports for a number of years.
• The video will be joined with the sounds of Dartmouth radio broadcasters Bob Lipman and Wayne Young calling the action once again for WDCR.

Still no word on what the charges will be and what you'll need on your computer (apart from a super fast connection) to watch the action.

Speaking of color commentator Wayne Young, the co-captain of the 1971 Dartmouth squad and fellow All-Ivy selection Tom Csatari are teammates again. Young has joined the Lebanon, N.H. law firm of Daschbach, Cooper, Hotchkiss & Csatari.

Back on the topic of Internet webcasting, Dartmouth is apparently catching a wave as this Associated Press story suggests. The story begins this way:

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — When Yale football coach Jack Siedlecki goes on a national recruiting trip, he hears the same questions over and over from parents.
"They always want to know, ’Are you on TV? Can I get the games?"’ Siedlecki said.

With the exception of the game against rival Harvard, the answer is usually, "No."

The big TV networks simply aren’t interested in the little Ivy League.

But the Ivy League and other small conferences may have found a way around that — the Internet.

Later this morning on the premium Green Alert site: the Yale season preview.