Record Smasher

In case you are wondering (or even if you are not ;-) the Dartmouth record for career touchdown passes is 58, held by Jay Fiedler. Second on the all-time list is Brian Mann, with 33. Got it?

Now consider this: As Allen Lessels reports in the Manchester Union Leader, the next touchdown pass New Hampshire quarterback Ricky Santos throws with be the 100th of his career. That's right. The UNH signal-caller has averaged 33 TD throws a year. At his current rate, he would finish his career with 132. The old UNH record: 53.

For the record, Santos has seven TD passes against Dartmouth. (He did not take over as the starter until after the game against the Big Green his freshman season.)

As a Hanover High School student in the early '90s, Tris Wykes volunteered as a student-manager of sorts for the Dartmouth football team. The son of Dartmouth English professor David Wykes, Tris also helped out in the Dartmouth sports information office before heading off to the University of Minnesota. A gifted sportswriter, Tris has worked for the LA Times and most recently the Virginia Pilot.

Having recently left the daily newspaper grind, he's trying his hand at creating a Big Green Alert of sorts for the Norfolk State University football team he covered last year. You can check in on his Spartan Spirals here. Best of luck to Tris as he tries to get the Spirals to fly; I can only hope that the Norfolk State fans and football family are as devoted as so many are to Dartmouth, and that they appreciate how lucky they are to have someone as talented as Tris to deliver them the daily scoop.