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Russell Street Report (named for the address of the Baltimore Ravens' stadium) has a page dedicated to the draft prospects of graduated Dartmouth offensive lineman Zach Sammartino.
The Russell Street Report segment ends this way (LINK):
As for the fit, Sammartino would fit really well in Greg Roman’s gap scheme. As a right guard, he has the power to maul defenders off the line on the power rights that Mark Ingram feasted on. He also brings some solid pass blocking to the table and good awareness to be able to help out in that regard. The question is whether he can unlock his athletic potential to be able to run zone block schemes.
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HERO Sports has a listing of the top 20 scoring defenses in the FCS since 2012. No fewer than three of the best seasons in that span belong to Dartmouth. The 2018 Colgate team is No. 1 with 9.3 points per game. Of local interest:2 – 2015 Dartmouth 10.1
7 – 2018 Dartmouth 12.0
8 – 2014 Harvard 12.3
11 – 2019 Dartmouth 12.4
13 – 2015 Harvard 13.0
13 – 2018 Princeton 13.0
Find the full list of top-20 defensive seasons for points allowed since 2012 HERE.
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Did you know that the 1918 Dartmouth football home game against Penn State was canceled? The reason: With the Spanish Flu raging, "the travel distance exceeded maximums specified by Health Officials." (LINK)
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ESPN.com has an "as told to" story by Stanford's Anna Wilson, who saw her college basketball career ended abruptly by COVID-19. (LINK)Why mention the story here?
Anna Wilson's father was Harry Wilson '77, the Dartmouth football and baseball player who she speaks about in the story.
Green Alert Take: Back in the early days of BGA, long before Anna Wilson was five-star talent and rated as high as the 34th best prospect in the country I stumbled across a story noting her basketball talent as a middle schooler and mentioned her Dartmouth connection to then-Big Green women's basketball coach Chris Wielgus. While there's an abundance of green in the Wilson family – she has uncles who went to Dartmouth in addition to her dad – the attraction of the big time won out as it did with her brother, another of Harry's children. You may have heard of him. Fellow by the name of Russell Wilson.
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EXTRA POINTThe first place I recall seeing e-book readers used in force was riding the "T" subway in Boston and I admit I thought they were a little pretentious. When That Certain Dartmouth '14 won a Nook at a bingo night (?) at Dartmouth and brought it home for the summer I found myself intrigued, mostly because I'm an admitted electronics geek. (True story: I got that from my mother ;-)
Anyway, two years ago I actually got a Kindle e-reader of my own for Christmas and I'd be lost without it. Sure, there's something special about holding an actual book in your hands and turning the pages, but I soon found that the ability to do a search for first-reference to a character in a novel is hugely helpful when you put a book down for a bit and can't remember who that person is or why they are important. That would have been a dream reading Dostoevsky as an English major undergraduate. Reading nonfiction in an actual book if I came across a word that I didn't know I seldom – if ever – went in search of a dictionary but instead got the gist of what it probably meant. With the Kindle it's two taps and I have a definition in front of me and I remember it. There's also the matter of clutter. I can't begin to tell you how many books we donated when we packed up to move and how many still fill the shelves in my office. But since getting the Kindle my inclination to hoard hardcover and paperback alike has been tamed.
These days I appreciate the Kindle (as well as the Books app on my MacBook Air and iPod Touch) more than ever. With our library closed I can still take books out of the online Vermont state library. Granted, the waiting list for New York Times bestsellers is ridiculously long but standing here at my desk I can go through pages and pages of "available now" books and always find something interesting to read. And when I'm not in my usual cheapskate mode, I can actually buy a book without leaving the house and have it delivered immediately.
