It may well be the first time Penn has been the Homecoming/Dartmouth Night opponent.
Records are hard to dig up regarding this so I'm going to take this opportunity to "crowd source" an answer to this question: Can anyone remember Penn being the Homecoming/Dartmouth night opponent? If so, what year?
(For many years Dartmouth stubbornly refused to use the term Homecoming because, the thought went, Dartmouth alumni are always welcome to come home. That was the case when I worked in the sports information office and we were sternly warned not to use the word Homecoming. In practice, however, Dartmouth Night was Homecoming.)
Because for many years Penn and Princeton alternated as Dartmouth's season-opener and final game the opportunities for Penn to be the opponent for Dartmouth Night/Homecoming were relatively few.
Anyone?
By the way, the next three Homecoming dates and opponents have been selected:
2020 — Oct. 3 vs. Penn
2021 — Oct. 9 vs. Yale
2022 — Oct. 29 vs. Harvard
Green Alert Take: For the record, while commentators and message board posters like to advance the old saw about picking someone you can beat up on for your Homecoming opponent that's clearly not the case at Dartmouth and probably not at many schools these days.
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Dartmouth will hold its first of two preseason scrimmages today at 10 a.m. Check BGA Premium this evening for a report.As always, it will be a non-tackling scrimmage. There will be officials but the action will be situational with the ball placed at different areas of the field and drives determined not so much by the down markers but by the coaches.
In case you are wondering, the Green-White scrimmage is set for next Thursday and it, too, will be non-tackling. Dartmouth is not having an outside scrimmage this year.
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The college football season is two-plus weeks old and Ivy League teams are still two weeks away from playing a real game. In case you can't wait . . .Here are Dartmouth's results in season-openers under Buddy Teevens with final overall and Ivy League records in parentheses:
1987 - Princeton 34, Dartmouth 3 (2-8, 1-6)
1988 - Penn 33, Dartmouth 27 (5-5, 4-3)
1989 - Princeton 20, Dartmouth 14 (5-5, 4-3)
1990 - Penn 16, Dartmouth 6 (7-2-1, 6-1)
1991 - Dartmouth 21, Penn 15 (7-2-1, 6-0-1)
2005 - Dartmouth 26, Colgate 21 (2-8, 1-6)
2006 - Colgate 28, Dartmouth 7 (2-8, 2-5)
2007 - Colgate 31, Dartmouth 28 (ot) (3-7, 3-4)
2008 - Colgate 34, Dartmouth 20 (0-10, 0-7)
2009 - Colgate 34, Dartmouth 15 (2-8, 2-5)
2010 - Dartmouth 43, Bucknell 20 (6-4, 3-4)
2011 - Dartmouth 37, Colgate 20 (5-5, 4-3)
2012 - Dartmouth 35, Butler 7 (6-4, 4-3)
2013 - Dartmouth 30, Butler 23 (6-4, 5-2)
2014 - Dartmouth 35, Central Connecticut 25 (8-2, 6-1)
2015 - Dartmouth 31, Georgetown 10 (9-1, 6-1)
2016 - Dartmouth 22, New Hampshire 21 (4-6, 1-6)
2017 - Dartmouth 38, Stetson 7 (8-2, 5-2)
2018 - Dartmouth 41, Georgetown 0 (9-1, 6-1)
