The Music Man

For an article I freelanced for the Cornell game program on former Dartmouth linebacker Gordy Quist-turned singer/songwriter, click here. The "lede" of the story is essentially this: If Gordy had gone to a music school and run into a couple of guys who were interested in making music their life's work, that would be one thing. But what were the chances that it would happen at Dartmouth? And that the other two guys would be in his class? And that they'd not only be at Dartmouth, and in his class, but also on his football team? Damien Roomets and Trevor Nealon were.

Unfortunately, the top of the story is kind of hard to read on the Dartmouth web site. The song lyrics are mashed together, but you should be able to figure them out. The lyrics are followed by highlights from a few reviews, and those end up being a hodge-podge as well. Suffice it to say, they were pretty encouraging.

Visit Gordy's website to learn more about him. The hauntingly beautiful song Green and Blue, whose lyrics are at the top of the program story, will begin to play automatically when you visit the site.

For a review of Gordy's new album, click here.

Dartmouth's big win over Cornell is featured prominently in this Columbia wrapup story. ... Speaking of Columbia, coach Norries Wilson is pretty hard to miss, as this Harvard Crimson column notes. It says of the second-year coach, "There is no gray area with Wilson, for players or reporters." Having interviewed him and sat in on interviews with him, I'd agree. ...

What I disagree with is the Crimson columnist suggesting that Wilson and Brown's Phil Estes would be the two coaches who "would succeed on the field on Saturdays if they were allowed to play." Both would be a load, but I have no doubt a certain ridiculously fit coach from Hanover who runs marathons and bicycled across the country in less than a month would run circles around them. ...

I just freelanced a program story on Lloyd Lee, the former Dartmouth safety who is now an assistant coach with the Chicago Bears. Former Dartmouth defensive back Matt Burke is an assistant with the Tennessee Titans and onetime Dartmouth receiver John Idzik is in the Seattle Seahawks' front office. Today's Princetonian offers a look at another former Ivy League player who found a career in the NFL. Onetime Tiger Marc Ross is the New York Giants director of college scouting.

The famed Dartmouth-Cornell Fifth Down game is retold in this story in the Cornell Sun. The reaction to the game is reviewed here.

The Concord Monitor has a story about UNH in the wake of last week's surprising loss to a weak Northeastern team. While media-savvy Ricky Santos is a little more outspoken than usual, what I found most interesting about the story was the following thought by the writer: "UMass, one of UNH's chief rivals, along with Maine and Dartmouth ..." It's another indication of how differently the Dartmouth game is viewed on different sides of the state. Ask Big Green coaches and players about to rivals and you'll hear Harvard, Princeton and Penn pretty quickly. You might not hear UNH at all.