The NEC archives video of its games so if you want to do some research on the Big Green's next opponent, you should be able to get last week's Central Connecticut upset of Bryant via this LINK. It's kind of strange watching a game without any crowd noise. It feels almost as if the announcing was done after the fact, which it wasn't.
Editor's Note: Two things. First, trust me, the archived game is there but I have no idea how I found it and got it to play. You may have to poke around. Second, the broadcast was not edited and so the first minutes before the game started are a reminder that any time you do something in front of a microphone you need to assume it is live.
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The new Dartmouth athletics website debuted this morning. Check out the sports publicity football page HERE. I missed it last week but came across the pre-Yale Teevens Teleteaser on the football page and you may want to go back and check it out.
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A couple of notes of interest culled from the Ivy League weekly review:• The Ivy League has three teams -- Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton -- at 4-0 for the first time since 1968. That year, Harvard and Yale each got to 8-0 and Penn got to 5-0 before dropping its sixth game. Harvard and Yale battled to tie in The Game in epic contest famously known as "Harvard beats Yale 29-29"
• At 4-0, Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton join Coastal Carolina and James Madison at 6-0 and Dayton, Jacksonville and McNeese State at 5-0 as the remaining undefeated FCS teams this season.For what it's worth, there can be no more than two undefeated teams in the Ivies when Dartmouth visits Harvard on Oct. 30 because two of them – Harvard and Princeton – square off the week before.
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The New Haven Register has a story out of Tuesday's media luncheon in New Haven where former Yale fullback Bill Primps reminds everyone how the 1969 Bulldogs . . . "lost to Dartmouth. They teed off on us in the fourth. We came back and ran the table and won the Ivy."True about winning the Ivy. But to be completely accurate, they came back and shared the Ivy League title with Dartmouth and Princeton, with each finishing 6-1. That was one of just three times the title was split three ways with the others being in 1966 (Dartmouth, Harvard and Princeton with 6-1 records) and 1982 (Dartmouth, Harvard and Penn with 5-2 records).
More from the New Haven Register story, regarding this year's loss to Dartmouth:
. . . (M)uch like the Big Green of 1969, they teed off on the Bulldogs late in the game. Dartmouth still had starting quarterback Dalyn Williams under center with a sizeable lead late. Williams threw the game’s final touchdown, a 36-yard score, with under 3 minutes left.
“Everyone plays the way they want,” Yale head coach Tony Reno said. “That doesn’t bother me, whatever other teams do.”
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The timing is a little strange but the Dartmouth Review has posted a lengthy "preview" of the Big Green season HERE.
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We spoke with That Certain Dartmouth '14 last evening from Yellowstone where she is finishing a season as an educational ranger and she said she did a Skype session with a classroom from Spain earlier in the day. I mean, how cool is that? (Although she did a Dartmouth term abroad in Barcelona she said the class she Skyped with was learning English, so she didn't have to test her Spanish.)While she was at Dartmouth she ran two years of cross country and track and continues to enter road races, so I asked her how much running she's been able to do lately in the park. She said she's had to cut back and run on the treadmill for the past month because there are so many elk around and they tend to get aggressive because of their famed rut this time of year. I'll say it again. How cool is that?
