Look Back At Yale

Not much new in the Daily Dartmouth report about the Yale game. Find it here. Senior offensive lineman Alex Rapp, who did not play because of injury, summed the game up for The D:

“To be victorious, it’s crucial that you consistently execute your assignments. We didn’t do that yesterday, and in turn, we shot ourselves in the foot too many times by turning over the ball or receiving penalties.”

Find the Yale sports information take on the game here. The Dartmouth sports information take on the game is here.

The Yale game is barely in the books and the anonymous/semi-anonymous prognosticators are already looking ahead to this week's contests. A thread on the Any Given Saturday forum about this week in the Ivy League includes this slam:

DUD OF THE WEEK: Holy Cross at Dartmouth. I know the Big Green have been hit hard with injuries, but even if they were healthy, they'd still be 0-5. The Crusaders shouldn't have to worry about sweating this one out in the fourth quarter.

The good news looking ahead to this weekend's game is that Brown quarterback Michael Dougherty threw for 526 yards against the Crusaders.

The bad news: It wasn't enough as they lost, 41-34.

Here's how that game looked from the Brown perspective, and the Holy Cross perspective.

The weekly Sagarin ratings are out and they have Dartmouth and its opponents ranked this way:

118. New Hampshire
128. Harvard
140. Yale
149. Holy Cross
153. Cornell
168. Penn
171. Colgate
172. Brown
183. Princeton
217. Dartmouth
220. Columbia

Sagarin has Holy Cross a two-touchdown favorite heading into Memorial Field.

Away from the gridiron, the new Dartmouth baseball field is taking shape behind Floren Varsity House. From a story in the Daily Dartmouth:

The crew will begin installing the artificial turf Thursday, Oct. 20, with the bleachers and backstop soon to follow.

And finally, kudos to the ever-so-patient wife of that certain blogger for completing her first 5-mile race yesterday!