Looking Ahead

National Nothing Day is as good a day as any to post the next three Dartmouth football schedules, so here goes:

2007
Sept. 15 Colgate
Sept. 22 at UNH
Sept. 29 Penn
Oct. 6 at Yale
Oct. 13 at Holy Cross
Oct. 20 Columbia
Oct. 27 at Harvard
Nov. 3 Cornell
Nov. 10 at Brown
Nov. 17 Princeton

2008
Sept. 20 at Colgate
Sept. 27 UNH
Oct. 4 at Penn
Oct. 11 Yale
Oct. 18 Holy Cross
Oct. 25 at Columbia
Nov. 2 Harvard
Nov. 9 at Cornell
Nov. 16 Brown
Nov. 23 at Princeton

2009
Sept. 19 Colgate
Sept. 26 at UNH
Oct. 3 Penn
Oct. 10 at Yale
Oct. 17 at Holy Cross
Oct. 24 Columbia
Oct. 31 at Harvard
Nov. 7 Cornell
Nov. 14 at Brown
Nov. 21 Princeton

Green Alert Take: The 2007 schedule is much friendlier than the 2006 edition. In addition to the fact that there isn't a trip outside of New England (every road game was outside of the region last fall), the schedule is kinder because:

• The season opens at home
• The Ivy season opens at home
• Two of the first three Ivy games are at home
• There are four Ivy home games and three Ivy road games

There's always a chance the 2008 and '09 non-conference schedules will be tweaked, so don't etch these skeds in stone ...

The following quote appeared in Michigan's Monroe News. The school that the wide receiver/defensive back in question will be attending has been xxxx'd out. Can you guess what it is? (I couldn't):

Monroe (Michigan) High's Tyler Lewis was recruited by Ivy League schools because of his ability on the football field and in the classroom.

He ended up choosing the closest thing there is to an Ivy League School - xxxxxxxx, which is known as the "Harvard of the Midwest."

Give up? The answer is at the bottom of this posting.

Cornell grad Kevin Boothe, who moved into a starting role on the Oakland Raiders' offensive line this year, was one of the team's top three surprises this season according to insidebayarea.com. ...

If you collect Dartmouth cards, and I know at least one of you does (right AE?), there's a selection of them up for bid in this eBay auction. This lot of 20 cards includes at least two Jay Fiedlers, a Nick Lowery, a Reggie Williams, a Walter Palmer (Utah Jazz) and a Larry Lawrence (CBA).

We got snow last night, but hardly the 8-12 inches predicted by some forecasters. At most, there were a couple or three inches up here on the mountain. Not much, but enough for our snow-starved plow guy to decide he better clear our driveway. Cha-ching.

For a live look at the snow-covered Dartmouth Green from the webcam on Baker Tower, click here. ... Temps could dip to 5-below tonight.

And finally, the Harvard of the Midwest is ... Oberlin in this case.