After nine practices without a break, the Dartmouth football team had a chance to relax and have some fun Wednesday at Storrs Pond Recreation Area, a mile or so from the Dartmouth campus. To view an album of photos from the afternoon, click here and then click on the word FUN near the top of the page. Enjoy!
(Some of the above photos can be enlarged with a click, some supersized with two clicks.)
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The 2013 Dartmouth junior varsity football schedule:Thursday, Sept. 12 – One quarter at end of Harvard scrimmage, approx. 3:30 p.m.*
Saturday, Sept. 14 – Middlebury, 1 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 29 – Williams, 1 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 20 – Norwich, 1 p.m. (passing only)
Sunday, Oct. 27 – Bridgton, 1 p.m.
* No official word yet but that likely will not be open to the public.
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Onetime Dartmouth basketball coach Gary Walters will step down as athletic director at Princeton next spring after 20 years in the role.From the Princeton release:
In his first 19 years as athletic director, Walters has overseen a program that has won 214 Ivy League championships, a figure 82 higher than the next-highest total by any other school in the league during that time. Princeton has also won 48 national championships since his arrival, including four this past academic year.
Princeton has won the Ivy League¹s unofficial all-sports points championship each of his years, and his athletic program has been the highest Ivy finisher in the Directors’ Cup standings, which measure overall athletic success through NCAA championship participation, in 16 of his 19 years. There has also been at least one team or individual national champion in each of his 19 years as AD.
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Dartmouth is listed by US News & World Report as one of the 10 Best Value schools in the country among national schools that, "emphasize faculty research and offer a full range of undergraduate majors, plus master's and Ph.D. programs."Green Alert Take: All I can say is those of us who are paying for a Dartmouth education these days certainly hope US News has it right ;-)
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It's back to work today for the Big Green with a single practice rescheduled from this afternoon to this morning. Check BGA Premium tonight for full coverage.
