Dartmouth Gets Some Attention

Whoa, a full story on Dartmouth football in the Boston Globe? Is this the early '70's again or what? Sure enough, there's a story here. From the Globe:

The Big Green, for the last few seasons an Ivy League punching bag, have a swagger and momentum not felt in years past.

Those potential nicknames/mascots for Dartmouth teams keep on coming. Dartmoose seems to stir up the most emotion on campus. North Stars is now the official Green Alert choice. ;-).

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, a writer from the Yale Daily offers up another nickname -- borrowed from North Texas State -- in a preview of tomorrow's game. From the story:

Despite allowing over 400 total yards and seven trips to the redzone, the Dartmouth defense held Penn to just 13 total points.

It will take a Herculean effort for the Mean Green to have similar success against the Bulldogs. For the year, the Mean Green are allowing 205.3 yards rushing per game and yielding five yards per carry.

The story ends this way: The Bulldogs tee off against the Mean Green at 12:30 Saturday at the Yale Bowl.

And the decision is ... thumbs down on Mean Green.

Find The Daily Dartmouth preview here.

The Manchester Union Leader includes a Yale game capsule after its story on the UNH game.

The College Sporting News has a capsule on tomorrow's game and writes, "Dartmouth isn’t as bad as previously thought." The disconnect is between that concept and the predicted score: Yale 49-12. Holy cow! If Dartmouth was "as bad a previously thought," what would the predicted score be? ... there's another capsule preview here.

The Harvard Crimson pick: Yale 34, Dartmouth 14. The Crimson adds a note I should have included earlier:

"Dartmouth registered its first win since 2003 over an Ivy team other than Columbia or Brown with a 21-13 triumph over Penn."

The Daily Pennsylvanian takes a shot at the Quakers -- and a slightly backhanded shot at the Big Green -- in its weekly picks. Of Dartmouth it writes:

"Nice job upending Penn for the first time since 1997. Now go beat the team no one seems able to beat."

Football doesn't get a mention in this Crimson story about the future of Harvard's junior varsity programs.

Check Green Alert Premium later today for three stories:
* The weekly Fearful Forecast
* A Dartmouth-Yale Preview
* A bonus Q&A with Dartmouth-Yale fan extraordinaire Curt Bury 53, who is driving six hours north to witness his 59th consecutive game in the series tomorrow in New Haven.