During his talk with the Dartmouth football team Thursday, college President Jim Yong Kim shared memories of his careers as a high school quarterback in Iowa, talked about some of the all-time greats who have played for the Big Green and stressed the value of sports, football and yes, winning. (Click photos to supersize)
Kim spent a few minutes tossing passes to Dartmouth's quarterbacks.
Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens liked the president's "night tight spiral," and "tight release."Click the video to see President Kim in action and hear Teevens' comments:
Dartmouth can relax. The NAIA Quincy College football team rallied from a 17-0 deficit last night to post a 26-20 upset victory over Indiana State to run the Sycamores' losing streak to 27 games. If Indiana State had won the game, the longest losing streak in the nation would have belonged to the Big Green, which has dropped its last 12 games. Find a brief story about the game here.
The Championship Subdivision News offers up 27 Fearless Predictions for the 2009 Season including this one: 1. The three teams that were winless in 2008 will not go winless in 2009. It includes this:
... Buddy Teevens’ rebuilding tenure at Dartmouth was not as expected with an 0-10 finish, but they have enough returning to pull off an upset at home with wideout Tim McManus. They’ll knock off Cornell at home - and maybe beat Princeton at home, too - to show some improvement over 2008.The CSN folks also have this prediction: 22. The Ivy League champion will have at least two losses.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal in Tennessee is reporting that 6-foot-3, 225-pound defensive end Steve Stafford of Evangelical Christian School has committed to Dartmouth. Stafford was a D-II, West AA Coach's All-Regiona Team honorable mention pick last year.
A possible recruiting target is 6-2, 250 Brandon Bunting of Mt. Pleasant High School in football-rich Western Pennsylvania. From a Pittsburgh Live story: "Brandon Bunting was born to be a football player. Specifically, Bunting was born to be a lineman." It goes on to say,
"Bunting has the potential to be a Division I player and has attracted some interest from several Ivy League and Patriot League schools. Lehigh University and Dartmouth have shown particular interest."Tyler Haney '03, a product of the same Gulf Breeze (Fla.) High School that sent current Dartmouth tight end Carroll Papajohn to Dartmouth, has a lengthy post on a blog site called The Guy’s Guide to Feminism that mentions in a couple of places how his football career in Hanover didn't work out the way he hoped. He left the team after two years.
Former Harvard and Minnesota Vikings all-pro Matt Birk is the subject of a story in the Baltimore Sun now that he's a member of the Ravens. The top of the story includes this:
Harvard, Harvard, Harvard. It's a steady drumbeat that has followed the 6-foot-4, 310-pound St. Paul, Minn., native everywhere since he was a sixth-round draft pick in 1998.Hank Paulson and Jeff Immelt are former Dartmouth football players who went on to have enormous power in the business world, and in Paulson's case, the government. Their counterpart from the powerhouse Big Green women's basketball program would be Gail Koziara Boudreaux '82, who has been named 54th on the Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World list. Find a story here.
So with his Ravens career about to begin, it seemed appropriate to ask him: Does it ever get old listening to people gush over the fact that he is the only NFL starter with a Harvard degree? Does he ever get tired of talking about it?
And finally, that certain Hanover High senior runner/softball player has looked at colleges in New England and down through Pennsylvania. Last night she took a call from the head coach of a track program at a terrific out-of-region school. Sounds as if there could be a road trip for the senior and Mrs. BGA this fall.
And One More Thing
I know this is going to sound generational, but Bill Gates will have nothing on the person who comes up with a painless and effective way to remove tattoos. Talk about a gold mine.
Dartmouth players enjoy a special moment between President Kim and his son, who were presented with an official Dartmouth football and Big Green helmet. (Click to supersize)
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