More Than Just Rewards (or Awards)

Dartmouth award winners at Sunday's banquet:

• Bob Blackman Trophy (Dartmouth MVP): Nick Schwieger
• Jake Crouthamel (underclassman who contributed the most to the success of the team on offense): Schwieger
  
• Kenneth T. Young Award (who contributed the most to the success of the team on defense): Shawn Abuhoff
• Dartmouth Special Teams Award: Abuhoff
  
• Doten (outstanding sophomore): free safety Garrett Waggoner
• Manners Makyth Man: wide receiver Tim McManus
• Earl Hamilton (outstanding freshman): tailback Dominick Pierre
• Scout Team: quarterback Andy Gay and defensive back Chad Hollis
• 12th Man (hard work and dedication regardless of playing time): tight end Kevin Gallagher
• John M. Manley '40 (weight room) offensive lineman Ryan O’Neill
• Gordon P. Bennett (outstanding lineman): defensive end Charles Bay
• Les Godwin (extraordinary perseverance to rise above personal disadvantage to contribute measurably to the team): linebacker Luke Hussey
• Alan Hewitt '34 and Robert Hewitt '40 (athletic performance and academic achievement): receiver Tanner Scott
• Earl Hamilton Varsity (friendliness, humor and appreciation of the outdoors): defensive tackle Lane Shipley
• Frank Hershey (zest for life, positive attitude and desire to win): linebacker Matt Oh

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The Daily Dartmouth has a Princeton game story here.

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The Daily Princetonian has stories here and here. From the first of the two stories:

The last team to go winless in the Ivy League, coincidentally, was Dartmouth, during a 0-10 season in 2008. Two years later, the Big Green took Penn, the eventual league champion, to overtime, and Dartmouth outscored its opponents by more than five points per game, losing only one game by more than a touchdown.

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The SportsProf, always a terrific read, writes about the Dartmouth-Princeton game from his orange-and-black perspective. SportsProf, if you are out there, drop me an email.

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Power ratings at the end of the season can be a little redundant, except when there is a three-way tie for second place. Here's how the Harvard radio station WHRB ratings look:

1. Penn
2. Harvard
3. Yale
4. Brown
5. Dartmouth
6. Columbia
7. Cornell
8. Princeton

From the WHRB capsule on Dartmouth:

The sleeper pick of the season came close to pulling multiple upsets throughout the year, but fell short repeatedly.

And ...

The best thing is that QB Connor Kempe and fearless TB Nick Schweigger (sic) are only juniors, leaving the core of the offense intact for next season, and imagining how they will contribute and improve next year is a scary thought.

(For some thoughts about that check out The Optimist and The Pessimist tonight on Green Alert Premium.)

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Penn has risen to 13th in the FCS Coaches Poll. Speaking of which, check out the 2010 NCAA Division I Football Championship bracket. How far do you think the Quakers will go? Oh, sorry. I forgot.

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The Editorial Board of the Columbia Spectator is calling for football coach Norries Wilson to be fired. They may have it fixed by the time you read this, but it makes you wonder how closely the board is paying attention when it writes:

We are a long way from the team that dropped 44 straight in the ’80s. And thank the lord we’re not Princeton (the Tigers didn’t win a single game this year).

Princeton 36, Lafayette 33

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Dartmouth did not win an Ivy League championship in the fall but the men's soccer team is doing its best to make up for it, moving on to the NCAA Sweet 16 with a 2-1 win over No. 9 Notre Dame. The Daily Dartmouth story has quotes from Big Green coach Jeff Cook and The Observer has quotes from Notre Dame's Bobby Clark, the beloved former Dartmouth head coach. Dartmouth will now play 15-4-1 UCLA on Sunday and regardless of how good the No. 9 Bruins are, you can bet that game will be emotionally easier for Jeff Cook, who counts Bobby Clark as one of his true mentors and friends.

Brown also advanced to the Sweet 16 with a win over No. 11 UConn and now takes on Cal. Find the full bracket here.

Green Alert Take: Exciting times with two Ivy League soccer teams each winning a pair of games in the NCAA Tournament and now getting to jet off to the West Coast over Thanksgiving. And with the Penn football team going on to the playoffs! What's that? They aren't allowed to play? It must be that football players aren't as smart as soccer players, right? Or maybe that they aren't as smart as football players from schools like Lehigh, Villanova and William & Mary, who are allowed to participate in the NCAA playoffs. That's what the Ivy League is telling us, right?