The Teevens Teleteaser is a great thing, but every time, and I mean every time I type that title here is what I think of:
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Find the Dartmouth game notes for Columbia here.
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The Dartmouth daily preview includes this sentence, which is hardly bulletin-board material although the word "cakewalk" – couched as it is – might at least draw a mention among the Columbia contingent:If Dartmouth’s defense plays like it has the past two weeks against Bucknell and Yale University and the offense returns to its early season form, Saturday should be a cakewalk against winless Columbia, who ranks in the bottom two of the Ancient Eight in every offensive and defensive category and has been outscored by an average of almost 30 points.
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Columbia coach Pete Mangurian talks in the Spectator about the Dartmouth defense and the challenge it presents:“They mix it up enough to make you have to prepare for things, but they clearly have an identity. What they really rely on is being big and strong and sound and physical. And we’ve got to match that up front offensively or else they’ll push us around. We can’t let that happen.”
Mangurian had this to say about how his defense matches up with the Dartmouth offense:
“Last week, we really had problems on the perimeter. We let people get outside of us, and we didn’t control the quarterback. If we don’t control the perimeter running game, and we don’t keep this quarterback in the pocket, then we’re going to have a problem.”
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Predictions from The Sports Network from games on which it has capsule reports:
Harvard 34, Princeton 28
Butler 28, San Diego 24
Lehigh 30, Bucknell 17
Regarding the last, TSN giveth and taketh away in references to the Dartmouth offense:
Now Lehigh travels to Bucknell, a team the Mountain Hawks own a 15-game win streak over. But the Bison are coming off a win themselves over Dartmouth - a game in which Bucknell held a standout offense to 252 total yards.
That should be much more of a challenge against Lehigh . . .
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From a Dartmouth daily story headlined, Athletes benefit from career resources, alum. networks:Head football coach Buddy Teevens ’79, who assists his players in the internship and job search, said his professional contacts are often looking for “good people” and the characteristics suggested by an Ivy League degree, such as strong academic record and athletic commitment, are qualities employers seek in interns or employees. If one athlete is hired and performs well, employers will often call back for another Dartmouth athlete.
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The D also has a story that wanders a little bit, but gets around to considering the challenges involved in being a top athlete and top student. From the story:Although academic advisors and coaches will say that you can balance your academic and athletic goals, the fact that so many classes are offered during standard practice hours, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., means that athletes face a trade-off between taking the classes that they are most interested in and remaining fully committed to their teams.
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Vermont's Killington Resort, one of the ski areas we can see from the end of our driveway, opened for skiing yesterday. I thought I'd see some snow here when I awoke this morning but instead just found a little ice. It was 30 degrees when I went out for the newspaper.
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And finally, a video from CHaD, Dartmouth Hitchcock's Children's Hospital at Dartmouth, has received more than 1.5 million views. Watch it and if you've got a heartbeat you'll be stirred:
Just a though but . . .
Wouldn't it be cool to see that on the new Dartmouth video scoreboard tomorrow?
