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This is a clean and bright, early card, postmarked 1908, showing students at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire getting ready to head off for a big football game. Notice that their are two Concord stagecoaches in front, loaded with Dartmouth students ! This is a high quality Tuck published card, series 2647 "Dartmouth College", and it has a nice descriptive paragraph from Tuck on the back describing the scene.The card can be purchased for $5.50 here.
Given that the card is postmarked 1908 it might well be from the 1907 season when Dartmouth finished the year undefeated at 8-0-1, allowing only one team to score. Dartmouth was led by John "Muldoon" Glaze. The results that fall:
1907 Dartmouth Football
Dartmouth 12, Norwich 0
Dartmouth 0, Vermont 0
Dartmouth 6, Tufts 0
Dartmouth 10, New Hampshire State 0
Dartmouth 6, Massachusetts Agricultural 0
Dartmouth 27, at Maine 0
Dartmouth 15, at Amherst 10
Dartmouth 52, Holy Cross 0
Dartmouth 22, at Harvard 0
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A story in The Dartmouth headlined Student Spotlight: Richard Stephenson '12 about his role with the SHEBA dance troupe starts this way:Richard Stephenson ’12, or “SHEBA Richard” as he is known by some on campus, did not grow up dancing. The North Port, Florida, native’s idea of a “stage” was grass field bookended by yellow goal posts until he arrived on campus as a freshman.
Stephenson had intended to play football for the Big Green, but his passion for the game dissipated after his father passed away the summer before he came to Dartmouth.My ears perked up at the mention of football but I couldn't recall hearing about Stephenson. I dug through my reports on possible recruits and while his name didn't show up, a Google search shows he played on the offensive line at his Florida high school. Although he chose not to attempt to walk on at Dartmouth, he made his mark on campus first as a performer and then as a choreographer and director.
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Congratulations to women's lacrosse goalie Kristen Giovanniello, who won The Dartmouth vote as the college's female athlete of the year. (LINK) Giovanniello earned second-team All-Ivy League acclaim after playing every minute of the season and tying for the best save percentage in the conference.Green Alert Take: Silly me for going out on a limb and writing last week that the greatest female athlete in Ivy League history would pull in the most votes. I will say this: If Abbey D'Agostino came in second in this race it would be the first time all year ;-)
