Find Columbia's game notes for tomorrow HERE.
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The Dartmouth has a story under the headline, "Football seeks to maintain focus against struggling Columbia." (LINK)Tailback Kyle Bramble told the school newspaper:
"A lot of guys are starting to get excited about the week after against Harvard. But all 10 games count, and we don’t want to screw it up by losing to a team like Columbia.”
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The Columbia Spectator preview is HERE. Coach Al Bagnoli made it clear to the Columbia paper that the Lions need to play a game free of miscues:"I think it'll be a great challenge for our kids. Hopefully we'll step up and acquit ourselves and put this other game behind us … but if we make another four or five mistakes, we're going to see the same results. We've got to quit shooting ourselves in the foot.”
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The Spec joins the national media in covering Dartmouth's Mobile Virtual Player. (LINK)
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Between stints at the newspaper I worked in the Dartmouth sports information office and one of my responsibilities was to be the staff photographer. In the days before the digital revolution and fully automated cameras that was a whole lot trickier than it is now and I shot enough out-of-focus, poorly exposed pictures as proof. That's why I so admired a fellow who showed up for one game a year toting an absolutely huge lens and who somehow left with photographs of virtually every player on the roster – whether they got into the action or not. Graduating players most years got posters of their pictures and others would stop by the sports information office to look through the proofs and order a few reprints of their own.
Charlie Pack was from C.W. Pack Sports Photography in Honolulu of all places. This is from his web page:
In 1977 C W Pack Sports was started with the mission of providing action photos to student athletes. We know from our personal experience, the importance of the relationships built during the 4 short years of college athletics, and wanted to preserve a small piece of that for athletes of all divisions.
Along the way, we developed strong relationships with coaches, sports information and athletic directors, and felt a personal committment to provide a service to them as well.
After a 1984 article in Sports Illustrated on us and our misssion, we declined offers to expand to national coverage in order to honor the committment to the core schools we had establsihed relationships with.One of those schools was Dartmouth. C.W. Pack shot photos of schools from Middlebury to Maryland to Miami:
A former Dartmouth captain has tracked down the C.W. Pack archives, which were sold to a company named GameFace Media. If you played football for Dartmouth between 1977 and 2007 and never got your photo or lost it, you are in luck because GameFace is making high-res copies of the photos available. Dartmouth is the first archives being made available.
I have no stake in what GameFace is doing but I'm here to tell you this is an incredible opportunity.
From the GameFace website:
Gameface is the largest publisher of amateur athletic photos in the United States. Our digital collection includes thousands of Dartmouth Football photos from 1977-2007. Click on the galleries below to discover action pictures of you, your family and your friends. We offer reasonable prices for digital downloads, prints and other keepsakes.Find the Dartmouth archives here. Click through and see what's there. Christmas is coming, you know ;-)
To see exactly how many different players Charlie managed to capture in one game, check out his coverage of the 1996 undefeated Dartmouth team's game against Yale HERE. He was shooting both teams so there's a ton worth looking at for you Yalies as well ;-)
