Friday, Aug. 12 – BrownNote: If you haven't already signed up for Big Green Alert premium for the 2011 season, now is the time. As in the past, 2010 subscriptions will shut down with the start of opponent previews.
Monday, Aug. 15 – Columbia
Tuesday, Aug. 16 – Cornell
Wednesday, Aug. 17 – Harvard
Thursday, Aug. 18 – Penn
Friday, Aug. 19 – Princeton
Monday, Aug. 20 – Yale
Tuesday, Aug. 21 – Colgate
Wednesday, Aug. 22 – Sacred Heart
Thursday, Aug. 23 – Holy Cross
With the beginning of the previews there will be fresh copy on the BGA premium site every weekday until the start of camp, and then a full story out of Dartmouth football every day until the end of the season.
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A 5-foot-6, 160-pound running back heading to Marist College ran for a record 265 yards and three touchdowns yesterday as New Hampshire pounded Vermont, 45-21, to make it 21 Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl wins in 23 years.
Watching Salem's Max Jacques run behind the dominating New Hampshire offensive line it was hard not to feel for incoming Dartmouth running back Cody Patch. He had to know he would have been given ample opportunity to share in the yardage bounty by his Lebanon High School coach, who served as the head coach of the New Hampshire squad. Patch missed the game with a rib injury suffered in practice.
New Hampshire now leads the all-time series 43-13-2 after winning for the 11th year in a row.
Green Alert Take: Long a summer staple at Memorial Field, the Shrine game was played once again at Windsor (Vt.) High school and while the river's edge community goes out of its way to do whatever is needed to host the game, it needs to return to the Dartmouth campus.
Try as the Shriners might with portable grandstands running the length of one sideline, the game and the experience – for the fans as well as the players – is a shadow of what it has been in the past at Memorial Field. After battling traffic on one of the few roads into Windsor, and then being unable to see much of the action or clearly hear PA from the temporary sound system yesterday, it's easy to be concerned about the future of the contest.
The Shrine game was shifted a half hour south several years ago when the home Dartmouth stands were scheduled to be replaced. Although that project was put on indefinite hold, media reports suggest the game has continued on in Windsor because, despite the smaller crowds, it allows the Shriners to make more money for their hospitals. Given that it is for such a worthy cause, the hope here is that Dartmouth and the Shrine committee can find a way to bring the game back where it belongs before it is too late.
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A Chicago-area linebacker " is garnering interest from a number of Ivy League schools, including Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton and Yale" according to the Sun Times.*
A writer for a newspaper in Maine thinks the Patriot League is the frontrunner to absorb the University of Maine and possibly UNH football team as the Colonial Athletic Association's presence north of the Mason-Dixon Line withers. Of course, the writer also thinks the Patriot League allows 63 scholarships. (link)*
Speaking of UNH, a writer for Foster's Daily Democrat looked at the university's annual report and concluded, ". . . the Wildcats must do a lot with a little."
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