Get With The Program

I laugh when I see 5-year-old Dartmouth football press guides and the like for sale at eBay. I'm not sure I'd ever buy a souvenir from an online auction, but I have to admit this one from 1944 is pretty cool. It's also pretty expensive. With two days to go, the bidding is up to $120.50.

I wonder if the bidder is from the Notre Dame or the Dartmouth side of the aisle. My guess is the Dartmouth side because this isn't a terribly special program for Notre Dame. ... In case you are wondering, the Irish won the game, 64-0, over a Dartmouth team that would finish 2-5-1. ...

Stumbled across a recent story from the Canadian Football League. A note about the BC Lions player who was suspended for an illegal hit on Anthony Gargiulo adds a little more detail to the devastating injury suffered by the former Dartmouth defensive end. The story says, "Gargiulo suffered a broken leg plus torn ligaments and tendons and required surgery to put a plate in his leg." Now, of course, the offending player is fighting the suspension.

There will be action on Memorial Field today as the Dartmouth men's lacrosse team opens the "spring" season against the University of Hartford. The Big Green has been forced to play on the football field because the 10 or so feet of snow we have received this winter has prevented workers from finishing installation of FieldTurf on Scully-Fahey Field. Crews – including the occasional athletic department staffer with shirt and tie and shovel in hand – have done yeoman-like work moving plowed mounds of snow off the sidelines and chipping away ice to make Memorial Field playable for lacrosse.