Big Green To Bowling Green

Adam Scheier '95, a special-teams specialist as a Dartmouth player and as a coach at Lehigh for the past seven years, is joining the coaching staff at Bowling Green. He will serve as co-special teams coordinator and tight ends coach under new head coach Dave Clawson.

Scheier, who served as a grad assistant at Dartmouth under John Lyons, also coached at Columbia for Ray Tellier and at Princeton for Roger Hughes. In addition to his work directing special teams, Scheier spent the past four years as the Mountain Hawks' wide receivers coach.

Missed this the first time around but the Daily Dartmouth had an opinion piece on the appointment of Bob Ceplikas as interim director of athletics for the next school year. Within the piece was the following, a not-so-subtle jab:

It has been 50 years since Dartmouth won an Ivy League championship in basketball, and 13 since we earned a football title. While several of the College’s teams have achieved high levels of success in the past decade — notably skiing, as well as women’s basketball and lacrosse — the Big Green has, for the most part, fallen from its glory days at the top of Ivy League athletics. And, contrary to what former Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg thinks, the active promotion of winning sports teams is not antithetical to the College’s mission.

Speaking of that last Ivy League championship men's basketball team, members of that team were feted at halftime of last night's win over Columbia on the golden anniversary of the Big Green's last Ivy championship. Dartmouth went on to post a 67-53 win over the Lions to improve to 7-5 in the Ivies (9-17 overall). It's a tremendous longshot, but with Cornell losing a one-pointer at Harvard last night, the Big Green can win a share of the Ivy crown with a sweep next weekend at Brown and Yale, and a Cornell double-dip against Penn and Princeton.

While the basketball team was winning behind 22 points from Alex Barnett, the men's hockey team was dropping a 4-1 decision to Quinnipiac at Thompson Arena. The loss cost the Big Green a bye in the ECAC playoffs. Dartmouth, the No. 6 seed, will now host No. 11 Rensnelaer in a best-of-three series that will kick off Friday.

The morning paper had a story about the passing of Ben Thompson, a name many of you will not recognize. If you went to Dartmouth football games up until the early '90's or so, you would know Thompson as the nattily clad police officer who would stand at the Hanover Inn corner each football Saturday directing traffic with his signature crisp white gloves and brass buttons.