Monday Recap

Look closely and you can see Shawn Abuhoff (8) blocking a Colgate field goal attempt in this still taken from the WCAX news report.

Burlington's WCAX TV has a very nice package of highlights from Dartmouth's win over Colgate Saturday here.

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From yesterday's Big Green Alert Premium:

Quarterback Dan Rooney engineered scoring drives of six plays and 65 yards and four plays and 90 yards Sunday in his only two series to help Dartmouth shake off the pesky Division III Middlebury varsity, 24-0, on Memorial Field.

Both of Rooney’s touchdown passes went to sophomore Dana Barbaro, one for 79 yards and one for five.

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The Daily Dartmouth has a web update on the win over Colgate.

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From yesterday's BGA notes ...

You don’t want to put much emphasis on statistics and rankings after just one game, but as they used to say in those old war movies, “Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em,” so here goes.

Nick Schwieger woke up this morning second in the nation in rushing after his 175-yard outing against Colgate. He’s behind only Kyle Harbridge of St. Francis of Pennsylvania, who has 180.3 yards per game in three games. … As a team Dartmouth is tied for first in the nation in fewest sacks allowed after keeping the board clean against Colgate. There’s one other Ivy team also tied for first and amazingly it is Cornell, which allowed no sacks to Bucknell after last year finishing dead last in the nation for sacks allowed. …

Foley Schmidt is tied for the national lead in field goals per game (3.0) and is third in scoring (13.0 points per game). Others in the top 20 in individual categories are Connor Phillips in sacks (tied for 16th with 1.0 per game) and Joey Casey and Bronson Green in tackles (tied for 16th with 11.0).

Schmidt, by the way passed Ted Perry 74, Tyler Lavin ’05 and Craig Saltzgaber ’86 on the Dartmouth career kick scoring list to move up to No. 3 all-time. With 143 points he trails only Dave Regula ’98 (194) and Dennis Durkin ’93 (202). He had 54 points last year and needs 52 over the final nine games to move into second and will have a shot at the all-time record with a few more games like yesterday.

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The Daily Pennsylvanian writes about a Penn loss to Lafayette that coach Al Bagnoli described as, "an old-fashioned rear-end kicking that we haven’t had here in a long, long time."

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The Princetonian has a roundup of Ivy games.

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Attendance for Ivy League openers:

14,032 Bucknell at Cornell
12,246 Georgetown at Yale
9,438 Lafayette at Penn
8,649 Harvard at Holy Cross
6,820 Columbia at Fordham
6,704 Lehigh at Princeton
5,732 Brown at Stony Brook
5,616 Colgate at Dartmouth

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Here are your weekly Sagarin Ratings with last week's rating in parentheses:

149. Harvard (128)
153. Yale (166)
156. Brown (163)
173. Penn (117)
181. Dartmouth (200)
208. Cornell( 223)
214. Columbia (204)
223. Princeton ( 218)

Non-League Opponents
134. Holy Cross (141)
188. Colgate (175)
243. Sacred Heart (237)

Last: Mississippi Valley State, 246.

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WPRI TV has a report on the passing of Dave Gavitt '59, the former Dartmouth basketball coach who founded the Big East.

The Optimist and The Pessimist will make an appearance tonight on BGA Premium. We'll be recording the next BGA Podcast tonight and it will go up before noon tomorrow.