With former punter Brian Scullin waving a pirate flag draped from a hockey stick and leading the ebullient student cheering section on, freshman Kyle Hendricks spun a masterpiece for 7 1/3 innings before the bullpen completed the shutout. Johnathon Santopadre clubbed two home runs as the Big Green won its first Ivy title in 22 years. That it happened in the first year of Biondi Park only made it that much sweeter. Find a story in the Daily Dartmouth.
The surprising storybook season for Dartmouth softball ended the way Cornell's baseball season finished, with a loss in the third and final game of the championship series, this time in Ithaca.
Back to the gridiron, the Daily D has one of the more interesting football stories I've seen in the student publication in some time. Headlined, "Football shows promise and problems in spring game," the story includes these thoughts:
The lack of downfield passing displayed this weekend is cause for concern. The vast majority of pass plays resulted in check-downs to the flats for smaller gains, allowing linebackers to more effectively gear toward stopping the run by crowding the box.and ...
The offensive linemen still need to work on keeping their pad level lower. During the game, they lost leverage to the defensive linemen on a number of plays.The D also has a "Power Ranking" of spring teams. The school paper usually takes a more gentle approach to coaching criticism than this column does at the bottom, when it takes a shot at a pair of Big Green coaches.
The New York Times has a column that begins this way:
After three decades of steady growth in the number of teams and student-athletes, colleges and universities large and small, private and public, east and west, are slashing millions of dollars from their sports budgets.I have to admit to mixed feelings about the issue. On the one hand, I absolutely understand how cutting sports can help the overall health of an athletic department. While Dartmouth has said categorically it would not be dropping sports, some who watch the athletic program closely have explained in detail why it would be advisable in the long run to do so, and they make a good argument.
But as the parent of an athlete who is looking to compete in college in a couple of years, I can't imagine what it would be like for her to pick her school, enjoy a successful freshman year and have the sport yanked out from under her. All I know is I wouldn't want to be an athletic director these days.
Rooting through some things in the basement I came across this promotional piece produced by the sports information office in 1986-87. Needless to say, it didn't catch on. But I still like the idea of a Big Green Thing stomping on whatever is in its way. (Click to supersize)Wasting time on the computer after finishing yesterday's blog, I came up with a newer design. It's amateurish, but there's the root of an idea there.
I seem to recall the Dartmouth Outing Club having a logo of some sort where the sole of the hiking boot print spelled out words. I used to think that something similar would be an original logo on the side of a helmet that really says Dartmouth. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized what it would really say is someone stomped on the players' heads.Oh well, back to the drawing board for this obviously frustrated graphic designer ...
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