As all of the pieces are falling into place in the final month of training, the team is focused on a single overarching goal of an Ivy championship, something that the Big Green haven’t accomplished since 1996.
“Obviously we want to be Ivy champs and that’s something that we’ve talked about in years past but this year we’re really focused on it,” (linebacker Bronson) Green said.The running back in the photo accompanying the story is Nick Schwieger who last played in 2011.
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Cornell grad Shane Savage is using his second medical-hardship waiver at Richmond as a graduate student. He led the Spiders with seven catches for 54 yards in a 23-21 loss at North Carolina State last week. The Richmond Times-Dispatch has a story about Savage, who did a fifth season at Cornell and is now in his sixth year of college football – minus two lost to injury.
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Speaking of postgrad players, former Dartmouth placekicker RC Willenbrock has yet to see field for the University of Virginia, but is on the Cavaliers' depth-chart "or" line as the second placekicker along with a redshirt freshman. Find his UVa bio here.
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Dartmouth will play a preseason game this afternoon against Harvard on Memorial Field. There is a news blackout on the event and so there will be no coverage today on BGA Premium. Check the site Friday for coach Buddy Teevens' perspective on how it went.Of all the teams the Big Green will play this year, the Crimson has the biggest question at quarterback with the graduation of Colton Chapple. Here's an interview with one of the two leading candidates expected to be on the field in Hanover today:
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The website CelebrityCafe taps Dartmouth's Keggy as one of the top mascots in the nation. There's a pretty funny video accompanying the story here.Publicity like this is what happens when your nickname is a color and there is no official mascot.
Once again, my favorite two nicknames/mascots for Dartmouth would be the BackPackers (think freshman trips, the Dartmouth Outing Club, the Appalachian Trail through campus, Green Bay and the color green ;-) and the North Stars (think geography ;-).
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A couple of New Jersey high school quarterbacks are either on Dartmouth's radar or have Dartmouth on their radar.CentralJersey.com writes about Jeffrey Bost of Rahway, who is being "recruited by Ivy League schools including Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard and Penn, as well as several other Division I institutions."
Austin Fellows, a 6-foot-5, 235-pound QB from Hopewell Valley is reported by NJ.com as having these "college considerations:" Towson, UMass, Lehigh, Delaware, Lafayette, Dartmouth, Pittsburgh, JMU.
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Former Dartmouth offensive coordinator and Princeton head coach Roger Hughes got his first win with the reborn Stetson program two weeks ago and last Saturday suffered his first loss as Florida Tech scored a touchdown with 1:09 remaining to post a 20-13 win. FIT, like Stetson, is a first-year program.
