This is the actual cannon whose "limber" was located under the home grandstand at Dartmouth's Memorial Field.WMUR TV in Manchester has a video report that gets to the bottom of what was originally thought to be a Campus Cannon Caper. To read a quick blurb about the cannon and find a link to the video report, click here. ... For a longer piece about the cannon, check out Vermont's Times Argus newspaper story.
So ... there's nothing buried under the Dartmouth football field. Not a cannon, at least. Is there anything buried under baseball's Red Rolfe Field? If there is, it might turn up in coming months as the old yard is completely renovated.
The Daily Dartmouth has a story about the project, which will see the grass replaced by state-of-the-art FieldTurf (including dirt-colored infield), two sunken dugouts, a brick wall curving from dugout to dugout, a new press box, seating behind the plate and a new configuration for the outfield. There will even be a baseball scoreboard replacing the converted football scoreboard that is down the right field line. Most of that I'd heard before, but the story did include something I did not know: Dartmouth has been the only Division I team in the country without a warning track in left field.
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