When I worked in Dartmouth sports information we'd regularly receive letters and phone calls from collectors asking to be mailed schedule cards like this one for the fall featuring corner Isiah Swann. Sure, some people just collect them. Others put the freebies aside and are now trying to sell the ephemera on eBay and elsewhere. There's a 1983 Dartmouth card for sale for $3.50, a 1987 card for $2.95, a 1982 card for $4.95 and a 2008 card for $2.50 among others. Perhaps this 2019 card will be worth putting away for a few years, particularly if Swann turns in another All-America season and goes on to play after graduation.
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Swann, by the way, was introduced yesterday as a Big Green co-captain along with linebacker Jack Traynor, who will reprise his role as a captain next fall as a fifth-year senior. Here's a shot I took of Swann (left) and Traynor listening intently to coach Buddy Teevens after the Green-White scrimmage:
Named yesterday to the 2019 Dartmouth Football Leadership Group:
Quarterback Jared Gerbino
Receiver Hunter Hagdorn
Running Back Caylin Parker
Offensive Lineman Zach Sammartino
Defensive Lineman David Chalmers
Defensive Back DJ Avery
Defensive Lineman Jackson Perry
Most Improved awards for spring:
Safety - Niko Mermigas
Corner - Darren Stanley
Defensive Line - TJ Simpson, Jordan McGriff
Linebacker - Mick Reese
Quarterback - Jake Allen
Running Back - Dakari Falconer
Wide Receiver - Masaki Aerts
Tight End - Robbie Mangas
Offensive Line - John Paul Flores
Specialist - Connor Davis
Strength and Conditioning - Corner Isaiah Johnson
Check out BGA Premium for a look at yesterday's Green-White scrimmage (but be careful buying all of the statistics in the non-tackling affair).
Green Alert Take: Trying to keep stats and write a story on the Green-White when the line of scrimmage was arbitrarily changed from time to time, and with coach Buddy Teevens aiding the officials by calling a few imaginary penalties to alter the game situations called to mind a quote from Willie Nelson about par at the golf course he owned. Said the country music legend famously, par is "Anything I want it to be. For instance, this hole right here is a par 47 – and yesterday I birdied the sucker.” Put another way, the Green-White was Teevens' gig and it could be anything he wanted it to be ;-)
