Fall Scrimmage Set

It wasn't a particularly well-kept secret but I sat on it until I could confirm with Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens that it was OK to go public with the news. So here you go ...

The Big Green will be holding an outside scrimmage prior to the start of the 2008 season. The opponent: Harvard.

With the regular-season game scheduled for Memorial Field, the scrimmage will be held at Harvard Stadium. The plan is to scrimmage again prior to the start of the 2009 season, this time in Hanover because the regular-season game will be at Harvard. According to Teevens, a good portion of this September's scrimmage will be played under true game conditions.

Dartmouth hasn't had a preseason scrimmage since Teevens returned to Hanover. Under John Lyons, Dartmouth scrimmaged Columbia for several years in Connecticut and later against Brown at Exeter. The decision to scrimmage at the home field of the team that will travel during the regular season was made to simplify the arrangements according to Teevens.

Green Alert Take: With Dartmouth's 2008 opener being Colgate's fourth game, the scrimmage against Harvard is critical and weclomed news.

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I met with Teevens for a full hour Friday for a freelance assignment. He was keen to answer the questions you emailed, but with several high school prospects waiting for him, we ran out of time before getting through your questions. So we'll sit down again next week. That gives you a do-over if you'd like to email a question or two for me to ask the Dartmouth coach.

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I'm on campus using wi-fi to catch up on what I've missed with the Internet being down on Moose Mountain. (They hope to have it up at some point next week. Argh!) Let's see what happened during my week out of touch ...

The Ivy Football Association will be hosting the world premier of the movie Eight: Ivy League Football and America, the documentary by Erik Anjou and Mark Bernstein. The premier will be at The Yale Club of New York City on April 24, starting with cocktails & hors d'oeuvres at 6:30. The documentary will run from 7:15-8:45. For information about attending, click here.

Yale is starting spring practice and the preseason outlook has been posted here.

For a look at the Holy Cross recruiting class, click here.

Former Princeton quarterback (and Ivy League Player of the Year) Jeff Terrell is playing for the Austin Wranglers in Arena Football2. Link.

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And finally, the local newspaper compiled the numbers and published a story today reporting that this has been the snowiest winter in the Upper Valley since the 1870's. The paper reports 135 inches of snow ... so far. Given how much more snow we get on the mountain, I'd be shocked if we haven't had at least 160 inches of the white stuff. That's more than 13 feet!