If I've got it right, the blacktop pad down the line in right is for one of the grandstands currently in the football end zone. Another set will be down the left field line (below).
One of the best things about visiting any ballpark is walking up the portal and getting that first glimpse of green. Here's one of the still unfinished entryways to the new Dartmouth facility.Today's DDDD (Daily Dose Of Dartmouth Diss) comes from the Daily Pennsylvanian. In a story that takes a look around Ivy League football, the DP writes:
Mathematically, at least, three of this weekend's four Ivy matchups have title implications.Ouch.
The one exception is Dartmouth at Princeton - but there's something even larger at stake.
The Big Green (0-9, 0-6 Ivy) are on the verge of their first winless campaign since 1883.
The Baltimore Sun has a Q&A with a high school senior who has visited Dartmouth, Colgate and Bucknell, among other schools. Graham Spicer is a placekicker who has gone 36-for-39 on PATs this year and 3-for-5 on field goals heading into their regional championship game. As it turns out Spicer scored a perfect 800 on his math SAT, but only after getting a 760 the first time because of "careless mistakes" and "a matter of losing concentation." That brought about this Q and this A:
Did your coach have a few words to say about the concentration lapse? I know football coaches stress the need for concentration on the football field.Great answer that says something about football/sports reinforcing the importance of getting it right the first time.
Focus is really important in football, especially in kicking. You only have one chance to get it right. Taking a test is a little different. Both require focus, but if you lose your focus for a few minutes during a test, you can make it up - either during that same test, by going back over your answers if you have time, or by taking it again. Focus is more important, I think, in kicking. You can take the SATs as many times as you want.
The Dartmouth family has lost a wonderful and loyal friend with the passing of Alden "Whitey" Burnham at age 85. Whitey coached soccer, lacrosse and wrestling at Dartmouth, leading the Big Green to Ivy League titles in soccer in 1964 and lacrosse in 1964 and '65. He moved into athletic administration in 1969, retiring two decades and, oh, a million friends later.
Whitey was one of those people who brightened your day each time you saw him, and not just because he usually had something funny to say.
Whether it was an auction or a banquet, Whitey was always in demand to be the emcee. I remember one time when he was having trouble with a microphone and he told the audience, "I've been in front of more dead mic's than an Irish undertaker." I laughed the first time I heard him say it and I laughed just as hard the 10th time I heard him say it. And so did everybody else.
Whitey had a line for every occasion, including an end-of-season banquet for a team whose coach was in jeopardy. Introducing the coach, Whitey said of the fellow, "He doesn't know whether he found a rope or lost a horse."
Whitey Burnham was a proud graduate of Springfield College who remembered fondly – and is still fondly remembered – at the University of Delaware, where he began his coaching career. His list of honors and accomplishments (perhaps topped by membership in the National Soccer Hall of Fame) is almost as long as the list of people who called him a friend. I was proud to be one of them.
Burnham Field, the Dartmouth soccer facility, is named in his honor.
I clearly remember sitting in with YT when he took time out of his day to chair a mock interview committee we had for a young sports information intern who had nervously bombed his first real job interview. Whitey looked the intern in the eye and said to him kindly, "Always remember, you never get a second chance to make a first impression."
That's something Whitey Burnham never had to worry about.
And oh yeah, the kid got the very next job he interviewed for.
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