Penn Recap

The Daily Pennsylvanian game story begins this way:

For the past few years, Dartmouth football has been the doormat of the Ivy League.

But Saturday, Penn needed overtime to defeat a much-improved Big Green squad 35-28 at Franklin Field.

A DP column talks about Dartmouth (and other Ivy League opponents) taking dead aim at the defending conference champions. Great picture of Eddie Smith enveloping running back Jeff Jack, by the way.

Also, the Penn paper has a 22-picture slide show from the game that has some nice Dartmouth pics.

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Quarterback Conner Kempe in the Daily Dartmouth game story:

“It was really a heartbreaker. You just go through the whole game and think, ‘If this would’ve happened this way and this would’ve happened that way.’ You really just have to take it as it is and just move on. It’s in the past.”

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Video of Penn's postgame press conference

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The first "we played them, now you've played them," result from the Ivy League season is in. Dartmouth opened the season with a 43-20 win over Bucknell. Now Cornell has beaten the Bison, 21-12. Cornell Sun story on the game

Green Alert Take: What does it mean? It means that they both beat Bucknell ;-)

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Penn won and Dartmouth lost but the Big Green climbed in the Sagarin Ratings this week and the Quakers fell. The number after the school name is last week's ranking.

125. Harvard (138 - beat Lafayette)
140. Penn (135 - beat Dartmouth)
150. Brown (128 - lost to URI)
170. Yale (157 - lost to Albany)
176. Columbia (196 - beat Princeton)
187. Dartmouth (193 - lost to Penn)
201. Princeton (181 - lost to Columbia)
226. Cornell (234 - beat Bucknell)

Also of Note:

124. New Hampshire (115 - lost to Maine)
165. Colgate (173 - beat Georgetown)
182. Holy Cross (201 - beat Fordham)
234. Sacred Heart (235 - lost to Central Connecticut)
237. Bucknell (238 - lost to Cornell)

(245 Butler - last team ranked)

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Being on the road I missed this but a number of you emailed a link to the Boston Globe story on the Dartmouth football program and the famed, "Dartmouth Experience." From the piece that begins with a look at players studying abroad:

“It is a unique thing,’’ said (coach Buddy) Teevens, who acknowledged that a few of his colleagues in the Ivy League question the concept and how he can be expected to build a successful program. “But when the players are away, they are accountable.’’

Green Alert Take: What is interesting is that only in recent years have we started hearing publicly that the "off term" was any kind of a disadvantage. It is yet another illustration of how football really has become a year-around activity.

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Check out Liberty University's newly expanded stadium and keep in mind this is the FCS, same as the Ivy League. Slide show

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