Dartmouth On Schedule

The 2009 Dartmouth football schedule poster features (clockwise from top left) pictures of junior wide receiver/co-captain Timmy McManus, senior safety/co-captain Peter Pidermann, junior All-Ivy defensive end candidate Charles Bay and sophomore corner Shawn Abuhoff, the Ivy League Rookie of the Week three times in the last four games of the 2008 season.

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The Colgate football team that will provide the opposition in Dartmouth's Sept. 19 opener at Memorial Field will feature four new starters on the offensive line. Among the departed are no fewer than three All-Patriot League first-team selections who paved the way for senior Jordan Scott, one of the most productive runners in FCS/I-AA history.

While there may be questions up front, there aren't any in the backfield where there's no mystery who will take Scott's place. The feature back in Hamilton, N.Y., will be Nate Eachus, a 5-foot-10, 206-pound sophomore with a well-deserved reputation as a battering ram. Eachus began last year as a linebacker, starting three early season games. He was playing linebacker against Cornell when Scott was injured and he was switched over to the other side of the ball. In just over two quarters of action against the Big Red, he ran for 241 yards (and no, that is not a typo). In other words, playing just a little more than a half of his first game as a running back, he surpassed the all-time Dartmouth single-game record of 229 set by Al Rosier in 1991.

Eachus exploded for 214 yards against Bucknell and 171 against Lafayette. Starting just four games at tailback, he ran for 932 yards, which would be fourth on the all-time Dartmouth list for a single season. To read a little more about Eachus, a two-time All-Anthracite running back (and you can't have enough All-Anthracite players if you ask me) check out a story in Pennsylvania's Reading Eagle. Find his bio here.

Another premier player Dartmouth will see on the other side of the field this fall is New Hampshire tight end Scott Sicko. Über-scout Gil Brandt taps him as No. 16 among senior tight ends nationally this fall, the only FCS player on the NFL.com list. Although it hasn't been updated as of this posting, you can find Sicko's bio here.