A brief Dartmouth mention out of North Dakota ... and the words "Fighting Sioux" are nowhere to be seen! The Bismarck Tribune has a story about a local production of "Don't Hug Me Christmas Carol," which happens to have been written by a former teammate of one Eugene F. Teevens. To see a current photo of gridder-turned-screen writer Phil Olson '79, and read his bio, click here. A tight end on the Ivy League championship 1978 team and an All-Ivy track performer, Phil is a Los Angeles-based "script doctor," who has written several award-winning plays and sold several movie scripts. Find his IMDb bio here. ...
It was Heartbreak Hotel in Ann Arbor last night as the Dartmouth women's basketball team was on the cusp of a win over Big 10 Michigan until a previously scoreless Wolverine player nailed a 3-pointer with four-tenths of a second remaining. Final score: Michigan 67, Dartmouth 65. Amazingly, the Big Green was in position for its first win over a Big 10 school despite playing without the services of 6-foot-4 standout Elise Morrison -- who has been out for a full year with a foot injury but is finally expected back for the Ivy League season -- and without starting center Darcy Rose, who had a family issue. The Ann Arbor news has a short account and there's a longer recap on the Dartmouth sports publicity site.
On the subject of women's basketball, this from the Daily Princetonian the other day: "Cornell and Dartmouth rank the lowest in the Ivy League in terms of turnover margin, and not surprisingly, the Big Red and Big Green have a combined record of 1-12 and it looks as though they're getting ready to fight over space in the cellar when conference play begins in the first week of January." Uh, the cellar? Dartmouth is the gold standard of Ivy League women's basketball and it would be a shock, despite graduating the best guard tandem in school history last spring, if the Big Green isn't in the thick of the race this year.
There's an interesting Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers story about a heralded 6-4 high school quarterback from Florida who nearly lost his life in a kiteboarding accident. He's expected to make a full recovery and return to the field next fall. The story says he's heard from Stanford and Virginia but also has an interest in the Ivy League.
Finally, we opened the local paper this morning to find a color photo of a certain Hanover High School freshman who finished fourth or fifth (there's some confusion about that) in the 3000 meters in her first high school track meet at Leverone Field House. There were athletes competing from as far away as Fair Haven, Vt., on the New York border and Nashua, N.H., down by Massachusetts, so it was a neat accomplishment. ... It's interesting. When I worked at the newspaper our kids were generally kept out of the paper, even when they deserved to be in it. I always thought it a little unfair to them to be excluded simply because of what I did for a living. ... A couple of the neater scrapbook items we've cut out for them include a Time Magazine picture of our son shaking hands with Bill Bradley when Bradley was running for president and last spring's nearly full-page story about our daughter playing center field on the baseball team with the boys as an 8th grader.
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