A Daily Dartmouth columnist exhorts his fellow students to root the Big Green on against Columbia. He writes:
Go Big Green and steamroll the Lions this Saturday. If you haven’t been to a football game yet, here’s your chance. This is the one weekend when excuses aren’t valid. It’s Homecoming.From a Newsday high school football blog regarding two players at Long Island powerhouse St. Anthony's: "Andreassi and Fletcher have apparently commited to Dartmouth from what I heard." ... That would be JB Andreassi, a defensive back, and Austen Fletcher, a 6-2, 285 lineman. A little Googling reveals that Fletcher's brother, Alex, was a Buddy Teevens commit at Stanford.
This was mentioned on the premium site last night but deserves a nod today. Jake Goldberg '07, the Dartmouth football manager the past four years, has earned the prestigious Dean of the College Award for Service at Dartmouth. The announcement of his award includes this: "Jacob has served as a Teaching Assistant multiple times for introductory chemistry courses and became renowned by students and faculty alike; he put in countless hours in the laboratory, on weekends, and even with students in his residence hall to provide support and encouragement through these stressful courses."
My only question, having seen everything the "distinguished double major in chemistry and history," did with the football program is, how did he find the time? Jake, by the way, is working in the chemistry department this fall but stopping by the athletic complex and helping out when he can.
I confirmed yesterday that photographer Charlie Pack was indeed shooting the Dartmouth football team last week at Holy Cross. Once again, to get an idea of what Charlie does, check out last year's proof sheet of Dartmouth pictures.
This is pretty cool stuff: a vintage Dartmouth football calendar. Asgard Press produces reproduction calendars for a wide variety of schools including Cornell, Harvard and Yale. See the full list of schools available here.
You won't find any mention of it in this release, but when the Patriot League Council of Presidents held their annual retreat last week, awarding scholarships for football was expected to be a hot topic of discussion.
The Lambert Trophy used to be representative of "Eastern Supremacy" in college football. Dartmouth won the award twice, including 1970 when it gained the hardware over Penn State. With the I-A/I-AA breakup, the Lambert Trophy spawned the Lambert Cup and the award became watered down. But the Lambert is still being given out. The current ECAC® Lambert Championship Subdivision Football Poll presented by FieldTurf Tarkett (doesn't quite ring like Lambert Trophy, does it?) has three Dartmouth opponents in the Top 10:
1. MassachusettsSpeaking of Yale, the Yale Daily does a nice job of analyzing the roots of the Bulldogs' current success. ... But a columnist at the school paper advises waiting a bit before annointing this team champions or one of the best ever.
2. Hofstra
James Madison
4. Yale
5. Delaware
New Hampshire
7. Richmond
8. Fordham
9. Holy Cross
10. Wagner
The Cornell Sun has an interesting story about what happens to a hot-shot high school player who arrives on campus to find someone else firmly entrenched in the job he thought would be his.
The Princetonian has a story about the reasons for Princeton's athletic success. The story includes this fact that I should have known but didn't: Princeton is the only school to have won Ivy League championships in every men's and women's sport. From the story:
Will Princeton teams continue to win more championships than any other Ivy League school? The simple answer is "yes," as long as we do not stray from our proven formula for success.And finally, still limping a bit from a leg injury he suffered in his last game, that certain Hanover 8th grader played probably half the game at corner and wide receiver last night in a 12-0 victory for his 7th-8th football team.
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