Dartmouth Unveils New Website

The new and improved Dartmouth athletics website has been unveiled. A lot of thought went into making the site cleaner and easier to negotiate. As part of the kickoff, Dartmouth invites you ...

"to watch video streams of our events this weekend for free to see what we have to offer. Volleyball Friday night; field hockey, football and men's soccer on Saturday; and women's soccer and another field hockey game on Sunday."

Should you want to skip directly to the football page, click here.

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Above – Former Dartmouth quarterback and current Director of Football Operations Brian Mann addresses the audience at the New England Football Writer's luncheon where Nick Schwieger was announced as the winner of this week's Gold Helmet Award.

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The Boston Globe blog writes about Schwieger winning the weekly Gold Helmet.

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Our local daily has a story about freshman quarterback Cole Marcoux, currently third on the Dartmouth depth chart. From the story:

"... (W)hat had been a smooth and technically sound delivery morphed into an awkward shot-putting of passes as August dissolved into September.

“I've not seen it in my years of coaching quarterback and we don't know how he got it,” said (offensive coordinator Jim) Pry, who's been is his profession for more than 30 years. “Maybe his arm got tired in camp and he sort of labored a little bit.”

Pry told the paper the motion is, "a hitch in his giddy-up."

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In the era of the internet it's hard to keep things quiet. The Los Angeles Times blog notes that freshman corner AJ Dettorre could get his first start Saturday against Sacred Heart.

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The National Football Foundation has announced that freshman linebacker Hunter Foraker of Mullen High School in Colorado is ...

"one of 31 finalists for the 2010 NFF High School National Scholar-Athlete Awards, which will honor one young man from each of the country's five regions as the best and the brightest for their accomplishments as athletes, scholars and citizens at the high school level."

Foraker is joined by finalists from Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Cornell, Colgate, Lafayette, Duke and Stanford among others.

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The Sports Network picks this week ...

Dartmouth over Sacred Heart
Harvard over Brown
Towson over Columbia
Yale over Cornell
Villanova over Penn
Princeton over Lafayette

And ...

New Hampshire over Lehigh
Syracuse over Colgate

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Love the caption of a picture on The Sports Network front page. Could there be a better name for a linebacker than Nick Nasti of Eastern Illinois?

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The Dartmouth writes about much-needed dining hall renovations at the Class of 1953 Commons, formerly Thayer Dining Hall. A quick breakfast in the Bucknell dining hall Saturday was another reminder of how dramatically overdue the improvements at Dartmouth were.