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| This was the Memorial Field project as of last week. (Click to supersize.) |
• There are 46 specially designed braces helping hold up the brick front of the stadium as well as the side walls.
• The braces have "anchors augured 7' into the ground," with care taken to miss the water, sewer and drain lines that run parallel to the stadium wall.• The dismantling of the stadium went three weeks faster than anticipated and subcontractors adjusted their schedules accordingly.
• Excavation for the new foundations began on Jan. 5.
• Work on the concrete footings started Jan. 8.
• Hardly slowed by sub-zero temperatures, more than 400 cubic yards of concrete were poured during the week of Jan. 12.
• Three "ground thaws" and more than 400 "concrete blankets" allow the work to remain on schedule.
• Again according to Engelberth, between 20 and 25 workers spend 2½ hours daily "to perform winter protection."
• Masonry for the bathrooms is set to begin early next week.
• The current projection is for the foundations to be finishing in the second week of March.
• Precast concrete erection is slated to begin on March 11. Some 800 pieces of "structural precast" that have been stored in Windsor, Vt., for the past six years will be power washed and moved onsite in early March.
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A Sports Illustrated story on Seahawks' quarterback Russell Wilson takes a close look at the impact family, and specifically his dad, Harry (Dartmouth '77) had on his life and his career. From the story:Harrison Wilson III is as critical to understanding Russell Wilson as anybody. He died June 9, 2010, at age 55 from complications related to diabetes. He was a lawyer, a former Dartmouth football and baseball player, and the son of a Norfolk State University president. Harrison’s brother, Ben, is an environmental defense attorney in Washington with an office decorated wall-to-wall in sports memorabilia. He uses phrases like de rigueur in conversation and can speak as eloquently and passionately about the 1933 Negro League champions as he can about the Clean Air Act.
“A child is not born with a dream in his heart, someone has to suggest it to them,” Ben says. “Russell’s father said, ‘Russell you could do this one day. You could be a great baseball player. You could play both sports!’ And Russell believed that. He was an apt pupil.”Do check out the story for a wonderful picture of father and son together after Russell helped Richmond's Collegiate School to a football victory.
A story in the Providence Journal also touches on the huge impact Harry had on his son's career.
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The Los Angeles Times has a blurb about a "Practice Like Pros" clinic next Wednesday at UCLA that will feature, "NFL Hall of Famers Warren Moon and Anthony Munoz, Dartmouth Coach Buddy Teevens and Seattle Seahawks assistant coach Rocky Seto."
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Harvard defensive end/linebacker Zach Hodges will be joining Yale tailback Tyler Varga at the NFL Combine. (LINK)
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Everywhere you turn there is coverage of President Phil Hanlon's Moving Dartmouth Forward presentation, with much of the focus on the banning of hard liquor on campus. Dartmouth Now has a story as well as the New York Times and the Boston Globe. Student and faculty reactions are reported in The Dartmouth.