It was no stretch Wednesday to say the Big Green looked ready to hit.HANOVER -- You can take it from the owner of the only two Big Green Alert baseball caps in the free world or you can take it from Dartmouth Coach Buddy Teevens.
Better yet, take it from All-Ivy League linebacker Justin Cottrell: After three days of practice players on the Dartmouth football team are ready to start hitting. More than ready, actually.
"If you were out here the last three days it's kind of obvious we are ready to go," the junior standout said Wednesday. "I mean, there's been a lot of talking. A lot of little side comments between each other in the locker room. It's all good-natured but we've been sitting around all winter and it's time to get a little frustration out. You can feel it in the air."
And you could see it on the field. Teevens certainly could. After the second mini-tussle of an 11-on-11 drill he blew his whistle and called the team together at the midfield "D" to issue a warning.
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NOTE: The Green Alert "home office" will be in State College, Pa., this weekend while yours truly and a certain pair of Hanover students take in Penn State's Blue-White game and give their mother three days without them in her hair. Blogging will continue from our campground but don't look for the Thursday blog until early afternoon. We'll be up and on the road by 4:30 a.m., and won't arrive in the Happy Valley area until noon or so. ... Friday's Dartmouth football practice will be recapped Monday unless a subscriber emails along a first-person account to be shared here.
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