Dartmouth FB Hosting Bone Marrow Drive

The Dartmouth football team will host a bone marrow drive tomorrow beginning at 4 p.m. at Memorial Field. From the release:

The test consists of a simple cheek swab and no blood or needles are involved whatsoever. The entire process of registering and being tested takes no more than 15 minutes, and it very well could save someone’s life.

The eligibility criteria to be a donor are that you must be between 18 and 55 and in general good health.

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The drive hosted by the Dartmouth football team is part of an effort to save the life of Jackson Liff, a one-year-old Afro-American boy diagnosed with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), a potentially fatal disease. The goal set by DKMS Americas is to register 10,000 new donors at various bone marrow drives around the Northeast.

The regular-decision recruiting story should be on Green Alert premium later today. While you wait, here's a video interview with Austin Katigan, a receiver/punter/athlete from Oklahoma. From the intro:

At this point last year, Casady’s Austin Katigan didn’t think it was going to be possible to play college football.

But in what has been a memorable senior season for all the Casady football players, Katigan has been accepted to Dartmouth and will play football.

Catholic Online has a story about a Father Owen McGrath, who played football and baseball at Dartmouth in the early 1900s. Interesting story. From the story:

In the ornamented journalistic style of the day, the reporter writes that "during his four years in Dartmouth he was the means of carrying the colors of his college to victory many times in the contests of the gridiron and diamond."

Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim has announced the promotion of Carol Folt from dean of the faculty to provost. Find a story in The Dartmouth.