Three At Night

Add another night game for the Dartmouth football team.

News broke yesterday that the Nov. 2 game at Harvard will kick off at 5 p.m. Sunset will be at 5:36 that night.

It had been previously announced that the Big Green would open at Butler at 6 p.m. on Sept. 21 and kick off the home season against Holy Cross the next week at 7 p.m.

Game times for eight of the 10 games have now been announced. The schedule:

Sept. 21 at Butler – 6 p.m. 

Sept. 28 Holy Cross – 7 p.m. 

Oct. 5 at Penn – TBA 

Oct. 12 Yale (Homecoming) – 1:30 p.m.  

Oct. 19 Bucknell – 1:30 p.m. 

Oct. 26 Columbia – 1:30 p.m. 

Nov. 2 at Harvard – 5 p.m. 

Nov. 9 Cornell – 1:30 p.m. 

Nov. 16 at Brown – TBA 

Nov. 23 Princeton – 1:30 p.m.

The last Dartmouth game at Harvard two years ago was played under the lights and a huge crowd was anticipated until a freak Oct. 29 snowstorm hit Massachusetts. The attendance was generously listed at 6,029 but there might not have been 1,000 in the stands as a snowstorm that dumped as much as 32 inches on one Massachusetts town snarled traffic and brought down trees and power lines all around Boston.

Quarterback Conner Kempe and tailback Nick Schwieger won't soon forget
the last time they played at Harvard. (Robert Mondshine photo)

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Kudos to the Columbia football team, which will host its third annual Jacked 4 Jaclyn Lift-A-Thon Saturday afternoon. From a release:

Now in our third year as a member and supporter of the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation, Columbia Football has continued to grow closer with fellow Lion, Stuart MacNaughton, age 5. Stuart is a source of constant inspiration and strength for members of the team, with parents whose care for Stuart epitomizes the values of love and sacrifice. Over these last few years, the team has seen Stuart grow and develop from a shy and tearful toddler to a fun-loving and rambunctious youngster.

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Headline in today's Dartmouth in the aftermath of last Friday's protest during the annual Dimensions accepted students welcome show:

College cancels classes today
Decision made in response to threats against protesters

BGA is not the place to go for commentary on how the college is run but after an emotional phone call from That Certain '14 last night I have to agree with the Dartmouth's editorial board, which writes:

While they have done an admirable job of condemning and responding to threats against Friday’s protesters, no administrator has stepped forward to comment on the protest itself. This was a major event that has precipitated a dramatic polarization of our campus, and for the administration to leave the protest unaddressed is a gross abdication of responsibility.

 Going back to Saturday's web update story from The D, I find my head spinning at this:

Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson said she hopes that the protest does not discourage students from enrolling. 

“The demonstration last night . . . portrayed that Dartmouth is a place of many voices, and that students here feel they have the freedom to express themselves,” Johnson said. “Hopefully that is a selling point, not a point of deterrence."