Totally Tubular

Dartmouth-Brown today on VERSUS, noon today. (Can you still say "on the tube" with the advent of flat-screen TVs?)

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The announcers: Mike Crispino and former Princeton and NFL lineman Ross Tucker.

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Hard as it is to believe, the forecast for gametime against Brown is 53 degrees and sunny. The temperature is supposed to top out at 58 degrees at 2 p.m. ... A little trivia for newbies: For many years Dartmouth closed the season on the road because it was considered too cold to play football in these parts in the final week of the season. True story.

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A Versus columnist who grew up in Hanover and once sold refreshments at Dartmouth games offers up some memories here.

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The Providence Journal has a story that if you read down explains how Brown is still mathematically alive in the Ivy League race. From the story:

Penn (7-1, 5-0) must lose to Harvard (6-2, 4-1) this week and Cornell (2-6, 1-4) to finish 5-2. Harvard must beat Penn and lose to Yale (6-2, 4-1) to finish 5-2. Yale must lose to Princeton (1-7, 0-5) at home and beat Harvard in Boston to finish 5-2.

Also from the story:

The Bears still have one paw in the door, but they need a lot of help.

No, given the above scenario they need a miracle ... and some kind of outbreak on top of it.

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NFL news with a Dartmouth connection from Seahawks.com:

The Seahawks have retained a key component in their football operations staff by signing VP of football administration – and chief contract negotiator – John Idzik to a two-year extension.

Idzik '82, is a former Dartmouth wide receiver.

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The CriticalPast website linked to yesterday has a 2:53 clip from the 1929 Dartmouth-Yale game you can check out here. The game was played before a crowd of 80,000 according to the info accompanying the clip. (Thanks for doing my footwork on that one.)

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Always-interesting TigerBlog posts a re-creation of a famous Sports Illustrated cover that is reason enough to click through. Better than the cover is the lesson TB uses the cover to, um, illustrate:

If you're watching these games, keep in mind that you're watching the early stages of friendships that are going to last for decades.

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Remember, if you live in New Hampshire or Vermont you can get a ticket for just $5 today, with a free youth ticket in the deal. It would be fun to see a nice crowd at Memorial Field on a nice day.