It Was A Record-Setting Day

In the unlikely event that last week's loss to Cornell wasn't enough of a downer for you, a story in the Ithaca Journal brings up a fact that I either missed or successfully put out of my mind. By completing 25 of his 30 pass attempts against Dartmouth, Big Red quarterback Nathan Ford set the school record for passing efficiency in a game at 83.3 percent. There's an eerie and unfortunate symmetry in Ford's game. Today Dartmouth faces Brown quarterback Michael Dougherty, who last year set his school's completion percentage record against the Big Green (82 percent) when he hit on 41-of-50 attempts.

Jake Novak over at Roar Lions Roar seems most of the season to have had faith that Dartmouth was better than the record would indicate. But he's not about to pick the Big Green in this afternon's game against the Ivy League tri-leaders from Providence. Jake writes:

Dartmouth is just too weak at too many key positions to win this game. The Big Green's best chance to avoid the dreaded 0-10 will be next week against Princeton.

The College Sporting News site handicaps the Ivy League race with two games remaining.

Someone at CondeNast Portfolio.com knows college nicknames. A story that begins this way, Add Dartmouth College to the growing list of institutions hammered by the economic slump, is headlined Big Green downsizes. The story continues:

Of course, there is some small irony in that the government official charged with tackling with the economic crisis is a Dartmouth alum: Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.

Paulson was an All-East offensive tackle for the Dartmouth football team, where he earned the nickname "Hammering Hank." His possible successor at Treasury, Timothy Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, is also a Dartmouth graduate, as is the C.E.O. of one of the biggest companies to be buffeted by the crisis, Jeff Immelt of General Electric.

Doesn't mention that Jeff Immelt was a Big Green lineman like Paulson.