While sitting in the Floren Varsity House football offices yesterday I pulled out my iPod Touch and took a quick video of the timeline and displays that greet visitors. Take a look.
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Yesterday's post about the Dartmouth-Chicago game in 1925 resulted in an email from a loyal reader with a link to a story in the Boston College paper The Heights about a Dartmouth player-turned-coach whose innovation in the interest of safety predates the non-tackling practices of Buddy Teevens.The gentleman in question is Frank Cavanaugh '99 (that's '18' 99 folks). From a story about him:
. . . (O)ne afternoon an end candidate reported for practice wearing some hitherto unheard of leather bonnet, apparently modeled to shield the head of the wearer from the indispensable punishment of the game. His teammates and coaches gathered around the tawny haired youth as would a band of Indians around an incandescent lamp. Some ventured a snicker, and wondered if the college youth of 1895 was becoming effeminate.
Two years later this same tawny haired fellow was chosen for AllAmerican honors, having adequately proven that his ability and judgment were not to be taken lightly.Check out the story from the Oct. 26, 1932 edition of The Heights.
Major Frank Cavanaugh, by the way, coached Dartmouth from 1911-16, compiling a 42-9-3 record.
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The New Haven Register's Portal 31 blog has a very brief capsule look at the 2013 Dartmouth team spun out of last week's Ivy League media day.
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A "medical historian based at the University of Cape Town" who has been a visiting researcher at Dartmouth writes in "Dispatches from the Ivy League," about "privilege" and uses the college's Karl Michael Pool as the centerpiece of her Daily Maverick column.Green Alert Take: In addition to rethinking some of her stereotypes, the author might want to get out more. Not to demean Karl Michael Pool, but she would be surprised – no, she would be shocked – at the facilities she would see at schools that aren't, to use words from the introduction to her piece, "the domain of the elite." And as for her contention that undergraduates "wear Dartmouth apparel like denim," I invite her to stroll down College Avenue in Happy Valley some day where the abundance of blue and white would probably blow her mind.
And finally, she would do well to meet That Certain '14 before writing junk like this:
After hours, the students’ drug of choice is not marijuana, but cocaine. Their allowances are generous, their study-hours long and their sights set on high-powered jobs on Wall Street and Capitol Hill. They’re nicknamed the “Catalogue Kids”, because they appear to have strolled off the pages of a JCrew advertisement – a brand that combines Hilton Weiner-style designs with Italian fabrics. In combination with their Dartmouth gear, they wear salmon chinos, polo shirts, espadrilles and loafers. Everyone’s teeth and hair have been straightened.At least she got the "study-hours long" and teeth straightened parts right, even if the latter only made paying for college that much more challenging.
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Former Dartmouth president Jim Kim, now heading up the World Bank, played golf with President Barack Obama yesterday and is show in the feature picture accompanying this story.
