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One of the unique things about attending Dartmouth is that sophomore summer allows a winter out of Hanover. (It was minus-1 degree in the wee hours last night, so you know what I'm talking about.) Anyway, there was a time when Santa Barbara was the destination of choice for Dartmouth football players. Since Buddy Teevens took over as head coach there's been more international study, with New Zealand a favorite destination. That has been supplanted this year by Barcelona, where defensive backs Mike Dearwester and Matt Dornak, linebacker Phil McKeating, quarterback Max Heiges and offensive lineman Evan Nogay are studying and living together this winter.

Through the wonders of email, I got a few pictures from New Zealand last year. If any players studying abroad have a photo or two they'd like to share from their far-flung destinations this winter, send 'em along and I throw them up on the blog.

Yesterday's post about Lehigh selling DVDs of old games has brought a couple of comments from readers about the disputed out-of-bounds call that might have cost Dartmouth the 1991 game in Bethlehem. Read the comments here.

Here's a weird one in a brief about the UNH football schedule. At least it was a weird one for me. From the Manchester Union Leader story:

Because of the way the calendar falls, Football Championship Subdivision teams such as New Hampshire have the option of playing 12 regular season games next year. UNH intends to stick with its traditional 11, said director of athletics Marty Scarano.

Now, it seems really strange to me that the Ivy League won't give its teams an 11th game but the other schools can schedule a 12th game simply because of how the calendar falls. Yikes.

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And finally, that certain Hanover High sophomore bounced back from a somewhat disappointing Dartmouth Relays two-mile to easily set a PR in the 1500 in yesterday's meet at UNH. Breaking away from the pack, she and another runner had a head-to-head dual about 100 meters ahead of the rest of the field for the final two laps on the 160-meter track. Exciting stuff. Although the certain soph ended up being edged by 6/10 of a second at the line she erased her previous PR by eight seconds.