Stumbled across an interesting page that has a compilation of links to videos associated in some way with Dartmouth football. If I'm reading it right, the page is called, "The Message Behind Dartmouth Football," although that might instead be the title of the video that begins to play upon opening the page. Either way, find the page here.
OK, now check out these excerpts from a story:
The location of Hanover is both an advantage and a disadvantage in a football way to Dartmouth. The outdoor life, which has been carried to a more advanced and attractive stage than at any other institution, has drawn good material from all parts of the country, and the baseball field in the gymnasium, protected from the elements, made it possible for (the coach) to get in a deal of preliminary work sheltered from the sun, while other coaches had to drill their squad in the blazing heat. On the other hand, the team has to make long journeys for some of its games, and the schedule making is no easy problem.And this ...
Dartmouth and Brown have buried the hatchet at last and they will play home-and-home games in the future ...Those excerpts are from a Sept. 28, 1915 New York Times story that can be found here.
Football teams practicing indoors to get out of the weather isn't unusual. To get out of the hot weather, in Hanover mind you, is a new one on me. So is the info about a baseball field "in the gymnasium." Nor did I realize there was a hatchet that needed to be buried between Dartmouth and Brown 90 years ago. If I could find my copy of Green Fields of Autumn I'd try to dig up a little more background on those items.
Today's non-football note is from the lacrosse field where the Dartmouth women's team pushed undefeated and No. 2 Maryland to the edge yesterday before dropping a 13-12 overtime decision on Scully-Fahey Field. To give you an idea, Maryland is sort of the John Wooden UCLA basketball team of the sport with national championships in 1981, '86, '92, '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, '2000, '01. Find a recap of Dartmouth's nailbiting loss here.
Remember quarterback Andrew Hatch and the "will he," or "won't he," be allowed to transfer back to Harvard after spending two years playing at LSU? Hatch aside, an opinion piece in the Harvard Crimson suggests the university is making a mistake by closing its doors to transfers. From the column:
The transfer admission program has been an important part of the College’s history, allowing notable graduates like John F. Kennedy ’40, Henry Kissinger ’50, and W.E.B. DuBois, Class of 1890, to attend Harvard after doing time at other institutions.Kind of hard to argue with that.
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