Crimson And Clover

There's no Crimson and Big Green so this will have to do. Click and listen while you read ;-)

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From a fine preview in The Dartmouth:

In perhaps its biggest game of the season, the Dartmouth football team will host Harvard University on Saturday in the Big Green’s first-ever Homecoming weekend matchup under the lights. 

Just one quibble. All that stuff about "The next game is the biggest game of the year" is absolutely true for coaches and players. But there's no perhaps for the rest of us.

It's Homecoming, it's Harvard, it's at night, it's on TV and there are potential Ivy League title ramifications. This IS the biggest game of the season without question. At least so far.

The D's prediction:

It’s Dartmouth Homecoming, which means anything is possible. Dartmouth 21, Harvard 20.

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An entertaining and inventive story in the Harvard Crimson finishes this way:

After last week’s debacle, the Crimson is going to be playing angry on Saturday, which means bad news for Dartmouth 

Pick: Harvard 49, Dartmouth 10

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The WHRB Harvard student radio blog takes a brief look at Harvard-Dartmouth.

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You make the call. Read the blog entry North Carolina's star receiver wrote for a communications class then read what a group of 11-year-olds had previously written and you decide if the Tar Heel committed plagiarism. The USA Today blog has the entries and a story.

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Picking up the thread on three brothers competing in sports at Dartmouth that started with the news that Danny McManus would follow brothers Timmy and Ryan in playing football for the Big Green, here's a fun one.

Bill Deevy '74 played shortstop for the Dartmouth baseball team, Jon Deevy '76 played freshman tennis and squash and then rugby as a senior, and Brian Deevy '77 played rugby, teaming with Jon on the '77 Ivy League champions. That's three brothers wearing the Dartmouth Green. It's good stuff, but this is better:

William Joseph Deevy '47 lettered in swimming for Karl Michael.
William Joseph Deevy '74 lettered in baseball for Tony Lupien.
William Joseph Deevy '11 lettered in football for Buddy Teevens.

Three of the same name, three generations, one school. It's Deja Vu.

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The latest Teevens Teleteaser from the Dartmouth sports information office: