Green Alert Take: Worth noting for those who are wondering about all the points the Tigers are putting up is that none of the scoring in the second half was done by the starters.
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From the page linking to the Princeton game notes:Saturday will be the biggest game in Princeton Stadium history.
Saturday will be one of the biggest games in Ivy League history.
It has been 17 years since two undefeated Ivy League teams met in a November showdown, and a quarter century since Princeton was part of that kind of game. This pair also brings national Top 20 rankings into (the) game, which will determine the clear frontrunner in the championship race.
Games like this don’t come often in Ivy League play, so this will be your chance to be part of history.
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From a column by acclaimed and prolific writer John Feinstein (LINK):(W)hile much of the college football world will be frothing at the mouth Saturday for Alabama-LSU and Michigan-Penn State, there are two games I can’t wait for: Army-Air Force (because it’s Army-Air Force) and Dartmouth-Princeton—both teams are undefeated and the winner is going to win the Ivy League title.Green Alert Take: Feinstein should have left himself an "out"by saying the winner is more than likely going to win the Ivy League title. It's not a lock. Should the winner drop its next two games and the loser win its next two, the loser of the game will win the undisputed title. Got that? ;-)
More from Feinstein's column:
This is the part of college football I don’t love: the fact that Division I football—or as the NCAA euphemists call it, “the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS)" – is the ONLY sport in the world where you can not lose a game and not be given the chance to play for a championship.
Every other level of college football has a legitimate tournament—somehow, the "student-athletes" manage to play as many as four extra games, most at the end of the fall semester around finals time—and not flunk out. In fact, most of THEM graduate.Green Alert Take: Maybe the Ivy League football players should enlist Feinstein's help in the push to allow Ivy League teams to compete for the national championship. Perhaps he could shame the Ivy presidents into doing the right thing by ending the ban on Ivy League football competing in the national playoffs. Seems Feinstein believes football players can actually handle the challenge, something the Ivy presidents apparently don't believe.
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The Harvard Crimson school newspaper has posted its account of the Dartmouth-Harvard game HERE.
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What did you read on BGA Daily about the grimace-inducing, conference-produced video headlined, Ivy League Football Coaches Sit Down For Preseason Primer? I'll remind you:What I don't have for you after giving up 31 minutes and 26 seconds of my life to sit through this INFOMERCIAL is even one iota of information about a single player or team in the Ivy League heading into the 2018 football season.So what did the Ivy League do? A similarly awkward video for basketball. (LINK)
And how did Ivy Hoops Online describe the video? This from their posting (italics are mine):
(T)his new format is a missed opportunity to generate excitement for the upcoming season. Instead of focusing on the talented players and teams, the videos come off as edited infomercials promoting the Ivy League to prospective high school athletes and corporate advertisers.The posting ends this way:
Now, the league keeps their coaches from talking about their teams and student-athletes, turning their media days into larger and extended versions of the executive director’s in-game interviews. If the Ancient Eight truly wants to improve its national profile in the revenue sports and compete with the high major conferences, then the league’s leadership has to stop playing it safe. They need to promote its talented student-athletes, respect its loyal fans, and, most of all, embrace the words of Princeton coach Courtney Banghart: “Dare to be great.”Hear, hear!
Green Alert Take: At least for basketball – unlike football – there was a brief capsule of each team posted HERE.
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Happy Halloween!