Where at one time sports camps on college campuses were about coaches making a few dollars during the summer, they've evolved at least in part to become tryouts for young athletes hoping to catch the eye of college coaches. Teevens told the paper:
“Kids come up here one day, then go to the next camp. Brown has one, there's another at Yale … It's convenient for the families and it gives us a chance to evaluate the kids on a one-on-one basis.”Added Teevens:
“This benefits everyone. It's great exposure for the players, they get to see the college, meet with coaches and we get to meet with kids one-on-one and introduce ourselves to the parents.”While potential Dartmouth recruits come from far and wide to attend the camp, the story mentions a 6-foot-4 wide receiver with terrific academics who plays his high school football across the road from Memorial Field. (And in the interest of full disclosure who just so happens to be the best friend of That Certain Hanover High Senior To Be.) You can find his highlight video here.
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The town of Hanover is celebrating its 250th anniversary this weekend and as part of the birthday celebration Jack DeGange, 
the former director of sports information at Dartmouth College (and unofficial historian of all things Dartmouth athletics) has helped pull together the volume of essays and photographs pictured above). If you can order it online I haven't been able to find where ... yet. Anyone?Jack, by the way, has also compiled histories of Dartmouth football and ice hockey. If you act quickly you can still get copies of his Dartmouth College Football, Green Fields of Autumn by contacting him directly at the link over there in the right-hand column ;-)
Speaking of Hanover's history ...
Click here to watch a video made in anticipation of Hanover's big birthday bash. It starts with a look at the Hanover Center Olde Timers Fair and then looks back at the 200th anniversary celebration in 1961 with a slide show of pictures from that year's parade. It goes on for a bit but there are some neat pictures of downtown Hanover.
And click here for a photostream of historic Hanover and Dartmouth College photos.
If you are in Hanover this afternoon there are activities galore and this evening the town will be hopping with Grammy Award-winning Buckwheat Zydeco giving a free concert on the Dartmouth green starting at 6:30. (By the way, I can recall debates back in my newspaper days about whether it was the Dartmouth green or the Dartmouth Green, or perhaps the Hanover green or Hanover Green. But I digress ... )
You can learn more about Buckwheat here.
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