When Dartmouth associate head coach Chris Wilkerson accepted the head coaching position at the University of Chicago (BIO), he succeeded another former Dartmouth assistant, Dick Maloney. But as an email yesterday reminded me, the football connection between the two schools goes back a lot further.
It was in 1925 that Dartmouth overpowered the Maroons to lay claim to the mythical national championship. From the story above, which appeared in the Pittsburgh Press:
It was Dartmouth's last game of the season and since the New Englanders are the only undefeated, untied team of major importance east of the Mississippi river, they claim a national championship.
While that title might not be as clear cut as Notre Dame's championship in 1924, there is no mistaking that Dartmouth is one of the greatest teams in the nation.
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Jake Novak's Roar Lions 2013 Columbia football blog revisits Bo Patterson's 67-yard touchdown reception from Dalyn Williams that helped ruin the Lions' Homecoming Game last fall.
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The first FCS Coaches Poll is out and interestingly, Harvard is getting more respect than defending champion and Ivy favorite Penn. Here's how some teams of local interest are ranked:
8. New Hampshire
27. Colgate
29. Harvard
37. Penn
55. Brown
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Among the other teams receiving votes was Albany, which will be coached for the 44th and final time this fall by Bob Ford. The venerable coach, who guided Albany from club status to Division III to Division II to Division I, announced his retirement effective at the end of the season yesterday.Dartmouth has had a number of assistant coaches over the years who have spoken highly about breaking into coaching as grad assistants under the popular and tremendously well-regarded Ford.
UAlbany will be playing its first season in the CAA this year after 14 years as a member of the Northeast Conference.
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ESPNW has Bonnie Bernstein interviewing Dartmouth alum Kirsten Gillibrand '88 (D-N.Y.) about the role that sports (she played tennis and then became a squash captain in Hanover) has had in her life. Gillibrand tells Bernstein:
“One of the reasons why I admired and liked Dartmouth was because they had such an active sports program and women’s sports were so important to Dartmouth.”
Gillibrand points out that sports helped her develop an attitude about never giving up that has been key to her political career.
Watch the video, which includes scenes from Dartmouth, here.
