Some interesting goings-on among Dartmouth teams this weekend but before we get to that, head on over to the Lehigh Football Nation blog and check out the first part of Chuck Burton's look at Patriot League football, then and now. Burton, a columnist for College Sporting News (nee I-AA.org) suggests there is a parallel between what happened to the once-proud Dartmouth program and what has happened to the Patriot League. ...
New Hampshire wide receiver David Ball and UNH defensive back Corey Graham join Brown linebacker Zak DeOssie at the NFL Combine. ... Ever wonder what it would be like to take the NFL's Wonderlic test? So did several folks at CBS SportsLine.com. To read what they had to say about the experience and check out the scores of some well-known quarterbacks from recent years, click here.
Hard as it may be to believe -- given the success of the program in recent years -- Dartmouth clinched a share of just its first Ivy League men's ice hockey title since 1980 last night with a 5-1 over Cornell at Thompson Arena. Head coach Bob Gaudet was in goal for the Big Green the last time it won the Ivies.
Still, the ice hockey team's wait for a title pales in comparison to the wait the Dartmouth men's basketball team endured between season sweeps of Princeton. When the Big Green defeated the Tigers last night at Leede Arena, 53-43, it marked the first since 1945-46 -- a span of 61 years that -- Dartmouth could claim a pair of victories over Princeton in the same season.
In case you are curious, there were 4,311 fans at the hockey game in Thompson Arena and 1,023 at the basketball game in Leede.
Looking ahead, the Dartmouth men's lacrosse team visits Duke this afternoon in a sold-out game that will be broadcast nationally on ESPNU. The national media will be focusing on the return of the Blue Devils after last year's season was curtailed because of the much-publicized criminal allegations against members of the team. While the spotlight will be squarely on the Dookies, Dartmouth football fans should keep an eye out for the return to athletic competition of junior Chad Gaudet, the promising tailback who has missed two years on the gridiron after a devastating knee injury. Gaudet, who hadn't played lacrosse since high school, has been pushing hard for a starting position on defense.
While the men's team is at Duke, the Dartmouth women's team will be playing host to Syracuse on Scully-Fahey Field. Among those in attendance when the 2006 national runnerup Big Green faces off against the Orange: your dutiful correspondent, who is freelancing the game for U.S. Lacrosse Online. In case you are wondering, there are enormous piles of snow lining the field and the temperature is expected to be 23 degrees with a wind chill of 11 degrees at faceoff. The wind will be gusting to 14 mph and there's a 10 percent chance of snow. Don't forget to bundle up ;-)
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