Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Check It Out

Dartmouth's football schedules for 2014 and 2015 have been posted and the nonconference schedule certainly looks a lot different in 2015 than in years past:

2014
Sept. 20 Central Connecticut
Sept. 27 at New Hampshire
Oct. 4 Penn
Oct. 11 at Yale
Oct. 18 Holy Cross
Oct. 25 at Columbia
Nov. 1 Harvard
Nov. 8 at Cornell
Nov. 15 Brown
Nov. 22 at Princeton

2015
Sept. 19 at Georgetown
Sept. 26 Sacred Heart
Oct. 3 at Penn
Oct. 10 Yale
Oct. 17 at Central Connecticut
Oct. 24 Columbia
Oct. 31 at Harvard
Nov. 7 Cornell
Nov. 14 at Brown
Nov. 21 Princeton

The surprise on those schedules is Central Connecticut. To learn more about the Blue Devils, click here.
When defensive end Malcolm Freberg '09 used to make plays during practice there would be frequent shouts of FREE-BERG. Or was it FREE BIRD a la Lynyrd Skynyrd? I honestly don't know which but it always made me smile.

No doubt, former teammates and TV viewers will sometimes smile, sometimes laugh and probably occasionally grimace watching Freberg on the TV show Survivor: Philippines.

Thanks to a regular reader whose occasional links are much appreciated, here's Freberg's bio from the show, some photos (including one in his Dartmouth uniform) and commentary by someone who watches the show, as well as a short video in which he explains himself:



Hard to believe the program is in its 25th edition and I haven't watched 25 seconds of it ;-)
It was fun having a chance to meet freshmen and their parents last night at the get-together in Hanover. Some big and athletic guys are headed this way ;-) . . . Preseason practice begins tomorrow morning. . . . Previews continue on BGA Premium tonight with a look at Yale. The preview series concludes this week with Butler tomorrow, Holy Cross Thursday and Sacred Heart on Friday. . . . Another reminder that even if you are a returning subscriber you need to fill out the signup form to have your username and password activated.