Wind, Rain And Harvard

I'm not sure what it is doing down in the valley right now, but up here on the mountain just seven miles away the wind is absolutely howling. We've had heavy lawn furniture blow off our deck and I was relieved to look into the driveway this morning and see that no trees have blown over onto our beloved '84 VW camper bus. If this keeps up I may have to climb over a blow-down and hike to the game today. ...

There's something about when Dartmouth and Harvard meet. Last year in Boston there was rain, sleet and finally snow. I remember one year in Boston when I was shooting pictures on the sidelines, I had layer upon layer of clothing covered by a very good rain coat and rain pants. Still, when I got home, my T-shirt had bled all over my shoulders. That's about as wet as I can ever remember getting.

A PDF file of Dartmouth's game notes for Harvard can be found here. ...

The New York Times has a byline story about Princeton's undefeated season. Interestingly, perennial doormat Rutgers, Princeton's longtime rival and neighbor just to the north, is also undefeated this fall. ... Co-Ed Magazine (I'm not making this up) has a mention of the Ivies and the NFL. From the story:

When the Rams signed linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski last week, it marked the first time in 82 years (1924) that Harvard University had two players on the same NFL roster at one time.

Wonder how Harvard players could be in the NFL in 1924, though the Ivy League is only 50 years old?

In case you missed it, here's a link to the story I did celebrating the 10th anniversary of Dartmouth's undefeated, untied 1996 team. From the story:

It’s a message Buddy Teevens has been preaching to his young team for two years.

Winning, the Dartmouth coach reminds his players time and again, isn’t a matter of hoping. It’s a matter of believing.

Winning, Teevens explains to them, is about expecting to come out on top and then going out and doing whatever you have to do to make it happen.

No team in the past three decades embraced that philosophy more fully and more successfully than the 1996 Big Green, which 10 years ago this fall completed the only undefeated and untied season Dartmouth has enjoyed in 35 years.

Harvard may have worn down the junior varsity Friday afternoon, but the Big Green got its revenge in a big way Friday night as the Dartmouth men's hockey team opened the 2006-07 season with a serious thrashing of the Crimson at Thompson Arena, 5-2. Read about the big win here. The attendance was 4,318. If the weather were nice, the football game would double that attendance but given the conditions and the forecast, I wonder if Memorial Field will even match it.

For what it's worth, Dartmouth's ice hockey game against Vermont Sunday is being broadcast nationally from Thompson Arena at 7 p.m.. Check your local listings. (I can't get it, though, because cable doesn't come up our mountain road and our satellite package is bare bones.)