Another top high school football player is headed to Dartmouth, but to play lacrosse. At 6-foot-1 and about 210 pounds, Pat Flynn is a top two-way lineman for Mountain Lakes High School in New Jersey. He's helped his 11-0 team average 8.8 yards per carry on the offensive side and hold opponents under eight points in all but three of their 11 games.
Coach Doug Wilkin told the Daily Record: "Defensively, nobody blocks him, he's relentless. He's in great shape. Not only is he one of the strongest on the team, he plays hard all the time."
It's clear Flynn is coming to Dartmouth as a lacrosse player, but if he ever gets the itch for football – no sport at the college has more two-sport athletes than lacrosse and it's doubtful any Ivy program is as welcoming to walk-ons than the football team.
I just freelanced a story for the latest Big Green Sports News on Ted Newhouse, an interesting squash-lacrosse crossover. The lacrosse team has a couple of ice hockey players (or maybe the ice hockey team has a couple of lacrosse players ;-), basketball captain Robbie Pride plays on the lacrosse team, and laxer Jimmy Mullen had a nice first fall of football this year. Incoming placekicker RC Willenbrock of Colorado is a lacrosse-football standout.
Go back just a bit and All-Ivy/All-New England defensive end Ryan Conger '05 also played a little lacrosse at Dartmouth. Conger, by the way, came from Randolph, N.J., a stone's throw from Flynn's Mountain Lakes.
I've been meaning to check out the Life magazine photo archives for a bit and finally took a look last night. Not a whole lot of Dartmouth football (a ton of pictures of the 1949 game at Princeton) but there's a neat picture from November of 1959 showing the Dartmouth marching band forming an outline of a map of the state of New York with alum Nelson Rockefeller's initials inside. ... If you click the picture, you can get a little sense of what the visiting side of Memorial Field looked like almost 50 years ago.
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