More on Schwieger

A Boston Globe blog had a nice lede to a story on this week's New England Gold Helmet award presentation:

Dartmouth students rushed Memorial Field in Hanover on Saturday afternoon after the Big Green halted a 17-game losing streak with a commanding 28-6 Ivy League victory over Columbia.

They were just following the lead of Dartmouth sophomore back Nick Schwieger, who ran through, around and over the visiting Lions for a school-record 242 yards and a touchdown on 29 carries.

The same Globe blog included this high praise:

Harvard coach Tim Murphy, whose 4-2 Crimson host 1-5 Dartmouth at the Stadium, called Schwieger "arguably, the best back in the Ivy." He is averaging an Ivy-best 101.3 yards rushing per game.

Not surprisingly, Schwieger was named Dartmouth's male Athlete of the Week. The accompanying story is a Q&A that includes this:

Besides winning every game the rest of the way, do you have any personal goals for the remainder of the season?

I would love to hit the 1,000-yard mark, and I think it's something we can do. It would be a great accomplishment not just for me but the offensive line and the entire offense as well. As an offense, we need to keep the pressure on our opponents by running right at them. We're showing a balanced offense, which will help us continue to score. You can win a lot of games by scoring 28 points.

Dartmouth's official preview of the Harvard game is here and the game notes can be found here.

For Harvard's game notes, click here.

It didn't take long after the first win of the season for the discussion to return to the coaching situation in Hanover. The Daily Dartmouth has a column that includes these thoughts:

It probably felt great to win this past weekend, but if Dartmouth does anything short of running the table for the rest of the season, all signs indicate that his prospects of coaching next year aren’t too good. (Buddy) Teevens might have survived the week, but in the long run, it doesn’t seem too likely that people will want him to keep coaching.

and ...

The evidence is there that this team could be good under Teevens, and I think that switching up the coaching staff might ruin the chances for a group that actually has a lot of potential.

I’m just saying, I’m not sure that jumping on the “Buddy Teevens has to go” bandwagon is a good idea. The team is clearly improving, and until it stops improving, I don’t think it’s a good idea to change things up.

And finally, a story about Princeton tailback Jordan Culbreath on the New Jersey.com site reminds us that football, in the end, is just a game.