Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Of Schedules And Faces

A couple of scheduling notes to start your Tuesday.

Dartmouth will be the Holy Cross Homecoming opponent on Sept. 22 when the Big Green makes its second trip to Worcester, Mass., in as many years.

In case you are wondering, the Crusaders are slated to visit Dartmouth in 2013 and 2014 but are missing from the schedule for the first time since 1999 in a 2015 schedule that still lists two TBA's. (Future Dartmouth schedules link)

The Big Green will kick off a home-and-home with Butler of the Pioneer Football League in 2012 with the return trip to Indianapolis slated for the next fall. Butler's first-ever game against an Ivy League opponent will be preceded by a game the week before against Division III Franklin College of Franklin, Ind. Franklin, by the way, was 10-2 last year, losing to Wisconsin-Whitewater, 41-14, in the second round of the NCAA Division III Championships after sneaking past Thomas More in the opening round, 24-21.

Butler was 5-6 last year.

OK, we all know the weather in San Diego is perfect, but really? The USD Toreros will be playing their spring game this Saturday. (link)

This is kind of fun. I was asked a question last week about Dartmouth and Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd. I was curious enough to do a little searching and that kind of got out of hand. OK, not kind of ...

Anyway, here's what I came up with – a list of Dartmouth (and several Dartmouth-connected) Faces in the Crowd. They are listed here along with the text that appeared in the magazine, presented from most recent to oldest. (Editor's Note: Faces has come a long way since it started; I can't remember seeing the words "comely" or "pert" in one of the capsules in a long time ;-)

SI FACES IN THE CROWD
July 18, 2011
Chris Downer
Stamford, Conn.
Rugby
Chris and his brother Nick, both recent graduates of Dartmouth, combined on a crucial second-half score and were named co-MVPs in leading the Big Green to the Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship over Army, 32-10. Chris also tied for the tournament lead in tries, with eight and was named to USA Rugby’s Academic Honor Roll.

July 18, 2011
Nick Downer

Stamford, Conn.
Rugby
Chris and his brother Nick, both recent graduates of Dartmouth, combined on a crucial second-half score and were named co-MVPs in leading the Big Green to the Sevens Collegiate Rugby Championship over Army, 32-10. Chris also tied for the tournament lead in tries, with eight and was named to USA Rugby’s Academic Honor Roll.

Feb. 18, 2008
Mike Devine
Orchard Park, N.Y.
Hockey
Devine, a senior goaltender at Dartmouth, made a career-high 54 saves as the Big Green upset then No. 5 UNH 5--3; he also had a win against BU and was named national player of the week by Inside College Hockey. A unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection as a junior, he is second in school history with 43 wins.

Feb. 23, 2004
Christine Capuano
Stoneham, Mass.
Hockey
Capuano, a freshman goalie at Dartmouth, made 32 saves to lead the top-ranked Big Green to a 3-2 victory over Minnesota—her seventh straight win and her fourth over a Top 10 team. She has been an East Coast Athletic Conference rookie and goalie of the week.

Sept. 16, 2002
Kathy Slattery
Lebanon, N.H.
Golf
Slattery, 50, won her 18th consecutive Hanover Country Club women's championship. She has now taken 36 championships at three New Hampshire clubs over five decades. Slattery won her first title at age 15 at the Beaver Meadow Golf Club in Concord. (Editor's Note: Slattery was Dartmouth's director of sports information.)

March 11, 2002
Jamie Herrington
Cornwall, Ont.
Hockey
Herrington, a senior forward at Dartmouth, broke a scoreless tie in overtime against Cornell and the next night, with 15 seconds to go, had the winning goal against Colgate. He leads the team with five game-winners this year. The defeat of the Red Raiders clinched an ECAC playoff berth for the Big Green.

Nov. 15, 1999
Ellen O'Neill
Hanover, N.H.
Marathon
O'Neill, 34, the Dartmouth women's cross-country coach for eight seasons and a former distance runner at the school, won the Clarence DeMar Marathon in 2:56:30. It was her first race at the distance, and her time was only six seconds short of qualifying for the U.S. Olympic Trials.

Fb. 15, 1991
Judy Parish
W. Hartford, Conn.
Parish, a senior center on the Dartmouth women's ice hockey team, had eight assists and nine points, both Ivy League women's records, in an 18-0 defeat of Yale. Her 68 total points rank her first in the ECAC.

Jan. 30, 1984
Jim Sapienza
Louisville, Ky.
Sapienza, a junior at Dartmouth, won his second straight Heptagonal cross-country title, running the 10-km course in 24:31.1. He also was the top American finisher in the IC4A meet, placing third, and holds 13 school running records.

July 11, 1983
Chuck Nagle
Hanover, N.H.
Nagle, 28, coached the women's crew at Dartmouth to an 8-1 record, its best ever, after it had finished last season 0-9, its worst ever. The Big Green won its first Ivy League title and placed second in the national championships.

Nov. 8, 1982
Sandy Bryan
Ipswich, Mass.
Bryan, 21, a Dartmouth senior, scored three goals in the U.S.'s 10-7 overtime defeat of Australia in the finals of the Brine World Lacrosse Cup. She scored 14 goals in the six-game tournament and has 84 in her three-year college career.

May 31, 1982
Gail Koziara
Chicopee, Mass.
Koziara, a 6'3", 170-pound Dartmouth senior, put the shot 46'4" to win the Ivy League women's title for an unprecedented fourth straight year. As a basketball forward, she was Ivy women's Player of the Year in 1980, '81 and '82.

Sept. 7, 1981
Kim Selmore
St. Augustine, Fla.
Selmore, a junior at Dartmouth, pitched a perfect game to lead Afro-Am to a 7-0 intramural slo-pitch softball win over all-male Gile Hall. A guard on the Big Green women's basketball varsity, she once drew six offensive fouls in a game.

Nov. 26, 1979
Jim Yukica
Hanover, N.H.
Jim, 16, the son of Dartmouth Coach Joe Yukica, quarterbacked Hanover High to a 50-27 win over archrival Lebanon High by throwing for seven touchdowns and 411 yards. He also kicked four extra points and played the entire way on defense.

Aug. 16, 1979
Jeff Hickey
West Hartford, Conn.
Hickey, a senior at Dartmouth and an All-Ivy defensive end, set an NCAA lacrosse record for consecutive goals in a game. The attackman scored the Big Green's first nine goals in a 12-10 loss to Hofstra to break the old record by two.

March 20, 1972
Chris Carstensen, co-captain of the Dartmouth swimming team, set meet records in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle and anchored the winning 400-yard freestyle relay team as the Indians defeated Yale for the first time in 47 meets dating back to 1923.

April 19, 1971
Harlan and Justin Stanley Jr., 22-year-old identical twins of Winnetka, Ill., swing mean collegiate rackets. Justin (left) captains the tennis and squash teams at Dartmouth College. Harlan the tennis and squash teams at Wesleyan University. Justin is the older, Harlan the taller (6'3" to his brother's 6'1"). They faced each other this year in an intercollegiate squash match for the first time, and Justin won in close games 15-11, 15-14, 15-10, as Dartmouth beat Wesleyan 9-0. They will not meet in intercollegiate tennis.

Jan. 27, 1969
Larry Gillis, a Dartmouth senior, triumphed in two Class A ski jumps in a weekend's competition at Bear Mountain, N.Y. He soared 145 and 137 feet to take the Franklin D. Roosevelt jump, then twice leaped 145 feet to win the Torger Tokle event.

April 15, 1968
Dave Farago, 19, a 5'11" center from Fort Francis, Ont., scored 95 points when he made 55 goals and had 40 assists to lead his Dartmouth College freshman hockey team to an 18-5 record this season against other New England freshman and prep-school teams.

March 15, 1967
John Blair, a right-handed lead-off man for the Dartmouth Indians who was batting .133 earlier in the season, went seven for seven (six straight singles through eight innings and a triple in the ninth) and scored six times as his team shut out Amherst 24-0.

Oct. 11, 1965
Jay Evans, an admissions officer at Dartmouth College, won the Cohasset, Mass. Kayak Slalom over an unusual 19-gate course off Boston's south shore. Although entrants were allowed to practice the course in advance, "the tides," said Evans, "made it an ad-lib race."

May 24, 1965
Jamie McGregor, a premed student and a lock on the Dartmouth Rugby team, scored two tries (six points) as the Indians swamped previously undefeated Yale 19-0 in the Hartford Cup Match in Farmington, Conn. The Cup victory was Dartmouth's first in four years.

July 6, 1964
Gene Ryzewicz, who enrolls at Dartmouth this fall, will be missed at Cathedral High in Springfield, Mass. The four-year honor student scored 1,606 points in varsity basketball (a city record), was his school's star halfback and batted .603 this spring.

Feb. 24, 1964
Chip Hayes of Ann Arbor, Mich., center on the Dartmouth College hockey team, scored three goals in each of two successive victories—8-0 over Middlebury and 7-1 over Defending Ivy League Champion Harvard—to put his team on top of the league standings.

May 20 1963
Dan Dimancescu, a junior at Dartmouth, pedaled and paddled his way to two intercollegiate victories. In the morning Dan won a 45-mile bicycle race and then after a short break for lunch teamed with his roommate to take a 44-mile, white-water canoe race.

March 11, 1963
Dick Durrance, 20, Dartmouth sophomore, whose father held every major U.S. Alpine skiing title in the '30s, took skimeister honors at the Middlebury and Dartmouth carnivals when he totaled the most points in the downhill, slalom, cross-country and jumping events.

Nov. 12, 1962
C. Allison Merrill, highly successful coach of the ski team at Dartmouth College—where he developed outstanding crosscountry skiers—was named the coach of the Nordic (cross-country and jumping events) team for the 1964 Winter Olympics.

Jan. 9, 1961
Al Rozycki of Chicago, Dartmouth A student and halfback who set Ivy League records for rushing and pass receiving, was chosen from nationwide field of 82 candidates to receive 15th Swede Nelson award for sportsmanship and fidelity to "the football code."

Feb. 10. 1958
Marilyn Whinnerah, comely U. of Colorado senior, flashes regal smile after being named Queen of Dartmouth Winter Carnival. Host team, led by Bill Smith and Dick Taylor, won ski honors for seventh straight year.

Sept. 23, 1957
Nelson Rockefeller, businessman, sailing enthusiast, onetime soccer player at Dartmouth, but only mildly interested in baseball, held out helping hand in attempt to keep Dodgers in Brooklyn. His offer: to assist in building new stadium (see page 22)

Feb. 25, 1957
Chiharu (Chick) Igaya, slick-skiing Japanese Olympian, set downhill record, next day captured slalom for combined title, finished third in jumping to give Dartmouth victory over host team in Middlebury (Vt.) Winter Carnival.

Feb. 18, 1957
Virginia Evans, pert Mt. Holyoke sophomore from Summit, N.J., reigned as queen of Dartmouth Winter Carnival, won by host team when Olympians Ralph Miller and Chiharu Igaya dominated downhill and slalom events.

This should be a complete list, but if I missed anybody, send me an email.

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