Night Vision

A BGA mockup of Memorial Field at night

At the risk of embarrassing That Certain Hanover High Graduate, before she went to the college down the hill (it may be "the college on the hill" to most, but from our vantage point up here on Moose Mountain it is most definitely "down the hill") we gave her an iPhone and a year's service. It was something we were going to do anyway, but it did get me thinking when someone emailed that her new classmates would think she was "Amish or something," if she showed up on campus without a cell phone.

What got this cell-less Luddite thinking about that was typing up the 2011 schedules for the opponent previews on Green Alert premium and noticing all of the night games. If Dartmouth hadn't finally scheduled its first-ever night games against Penn and Harvard this fall people might have started to call the Big Green "Amish or something." Check out all of the night games among Dartmouth opponents, each of whom has at least one game under the lights this fall:

Brown

Sept. 17 at Stony Brook, 6 p.m.

Sept. 23 at Harvard, 7 p.m.

Oct. 1 Rhode Island, 6 p.m.

Columbia

Oct. 1 at Princeton, 6 p.m.

Cornell

Sept. 17 Bucknell, 7 p.m.

Harvard

Oct. 1 Brown, 7 p.m.

Oct. 29 Dartmouth, 6 p.m.

Penn

Sept. 17 Lafayette, 6 p.m.

Sept. 24 at Villanova (Franklin Field) 7 p.m.

Oct. 1 at Dartmouth, 6 p.m.

Oct. 8 Fordham, 7 p.m.

Princeton

Sept. 17 Lehigh, 6 p.m.

Sept. 24 Bucknell, 6 p.m.

Oct. 1 Columbia, 6 p.m.

Yale

Oct. 15 at Lafayette, 6 p.m.

Colgate

Sept. 3 Albany 6 p.m.

Sept. 24 at Towson, 7 p.m.

Nov. 5 at Lafayette, 6 p.m.

Sacred Heart

Sept. 3 Marist, 7 p.m.

Sept. 16 Bryant, 7 p.m.

Holy Cross

Sept. 1 UMass, 8 p.m.

Lafayette, by the way, has seven of its 11 games this year under the lights. I shuddered at the idea of the Nov. 5 game against Colgate being at night and then realized with a start that the Gate-Pards game is just one week after Dartmouth and Harvard play under the lights considerably farther north ;-)

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The Princeton Packet writes about the coming season at Old Nassau.

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YNN has a brief with short video about the start of Cornell practice that includes comments on the new rules to limit contact in practice.

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The Without A Peer RPI hockey blog looks at the idea of the school joining the Patriot League, something BGA floated in the past (link). What I didn't realize is that an entreaty had been made not that long ago. From the RPI blog:

RPI's position as a "small school" in the grander scheme of things, is largely linked to their Division III status. Yet, in the Patriot League, by enrollment, the Institute would be outpaced only by Lehigh and American. By selectivity, if that's an important metric, RPI actually fits better in the Patriot League than it does in the Liberty League, its current home.

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The Penn preview will be posted on BGA premium later today.