Will of a Champion

A website called Will of a Champion is reprising a 2007 interview conducted with former Dartmouth linebacker Marshall Hyzdu '00. The headline:

Marshall Hyzdu shares what he did to play Division I football at Dartmouth College, one of the best colleges in the world.

Hyzdu told the site:

Football and all athletics end for every competitor at some point and less than 1% of college athletes ever go on to become paid professionals. In my opinion, an education should be the number one priority. A person’s athletic skills can be stolen at any point in his or her life, but an education is untouchable…no one can ever take away my college degree and education.

At 6-foot-3, 220 pounds, the graduate of Cincinnati football powerhouse Moeller High School was credited with 82 tackles as a Big Green senior. Following the season he was presented with Dartmouth's Frank Hershey Award, given, "To the varsity player who, judged by his teammates, possesses a genuine zest for life, a strong, upbeat attitude and a sincere desire to win because of his dedication and love for the game, his team and Dartmouth College."

What's interesting about Hyzdu's comment about just 1 percent of college athletes going on to play pro spors is that his brother Adam, played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, San Diego Padres and Texas Rangers from 2000-2006. (He was drafted out of high school.) Another brother played football at Miami University.

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The official Dartmouth website has a brief on the Penn game being televised in the Philadelphia area starting at 3:30 on Oct. 2. From the story:

This will be the eighth time Dartmouth and Penn will square off in a televised game, but the Quakers have won each of the first seven dating back to 1983.

Dartmouth's last win at Franklin Field was 1997 when Big Green kicker Dave Regula snatched a fumble of his own kickoff and ran it in 32 yards for a touchdown. (link) Not surprisingly, that made ESPN.

But I digress. The full Big Green will kick off games at five different times this fall. The schedule, now with times for every game:

Sept. 18 at Bucknell, 1 p.m.
Sept. 25 Sacred Heart, 1:30 p.m.
Oct. 2 at Penn, 3:30 p.m.
Oct. 9 Yale, 1:30 p.m.
Oct. 16 Holy Cross, 1:30 p.m.
Oct. 23 at Columbia, 1:30 p.m.
Oct. 30 Harvard, 1:30 p.m.
Nov. 6 at Cornell, 12:30 p.m.
Nov. 13 Brown, Noon
Nov. 20 at Princeton, 1 p.m.

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As we speak the telephone company folks are on the road in front of our house trying to get our phone working for the first time since midday Thursday. Although it's impossible to know how many calls we've missed – probably a few – there's been something liberating about being somewhat out of touch. (Insert your own joke here.)

While the phone people are here they said they are going to hook up our DSL. All things considered, I might not be able to mope about our s-l-o-w internet service after today. (Although fiber optic sure would be nice!)

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I'll be off to the Tommy Keane Invitational golf tournament to take care of my responsibilities as sort of a "media coordinator" for the event in a few minutes. Longtime fans of Dartmouth athletics might want to check out this 10-second video I posted on the TKI blog yesterday. No, that's not Ivor Robson of British Open fame. It's former Dartmouth director of athletics Seaver Peters.