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A loyal reader familiar with the tradition at Princeton of having a bonfire when the Tiger football team defeats both Yale and Harvard in the same season writes:"We all know that no one loves a bonfire more than Dartmouth Football Fans!
"Answer [to the best of my knowledge]: 2019 was the 9th time (since 1970) and the first time in 24 years (the 1996 Dartmouth team beat Harvard 6-3. Yale 40-6, and Princeton 24-0).
"Fun that the 2019 games were similar scores: 9-6 win against Harvard, 42-10 against Yale, and 27-10 against Princeton.
HYP Sweeps by decade:
1990’s – 4 times: 1990, 1992, 1993, and 1996
1980’s – 1 time: 1983
1970’s – 3 times: 1970, 1971, 1973
Bonus Answer: In 1995 Dartmouth did not lose to any of the HYP with wins against Harvard (23-7) and Yale (22-7) and a tie with Princeton (10-10).
Bonus Answer 2 (per a different reader): "The 1991 Dartmouth team went 6-0-1 in league play, beating Yale and Princeton, but tying Harvard. (We were better than the Crimson, but just didn't play like it that day)." Scores were Dartmouth 31, Princeton 13; Dartmouth 28, Yale 24; and Dartmouth 31, Harvard 31.
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There haven't even been any OTAs yet (and may not be) and already the pundits on the SB Nation Cincy Jungle site are predicting the 55-man roster from the 84 players the Bengals have under contract. Dartmouth's Isiah Swann gets a mention HERE.
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You need a subscription to read it but The Athletic has a story under the headline Get to know the Giants’ defensive undrafted free agent signings that has a funny bit about Dartmouth's Niko Lalos HERE.
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Former Dartmouth football captain Mike Rabil '06 gets a mention in a Boston Globe story about the Premier Lacrosse League's decision to use a quarantined tournament format for its second season. Rabil was co-founder of the PLL with his brother Paul, a collegiate superstar at Johns Hopkins. (LINK)
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Dartmouth wide receiver coach David Shula gets a nice mention in an Arizona Daily Star column about his late father Don by a retired orthopedic surgeon who trained at DHMC. From the story about the legendary NFL coach (LINK):I knew his son, Dave, very peripherally. Dave Shula had played football at Dartmouth when I was an orthopedic resident at the school and as a group, the orthopedic doctors were the team physicians, staffing the practices, clinics and games. It was easy to see the coach’s oldest son was special. I was not surprised when he became an NFL head coach himself at the tender age of 32 — one year younger than his Hall of Fame father was when he was named coach of the then-Baltimore Colts in 1963.
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EXTRA POINT
As they say in Vermont, if you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes. That has never been more true than the last 24 hours when the weather was truly wacky.We awoke to 4-5 inches of snow yesterday morning only to have almost all of it melted away by 2 p.m. and the lawn as green as ever. If not for the vestiges of snow at the base of a few pines it looked like a glorious spring day – although the mercury never got above 31 degrees.
Not long after the lawn was clear of snow the sun disappeared behind the clouds and the white stuff returned with an absolute vengeance. For perhaps 15-20 minutes it looked like a mid-winter storm with a total whiteout limiting visibility to maybe 50 yards. Then, just as quickly, the sun returned. Next? Not sun showers but a sun snowstorm, albeit with nothing sticking.
Later in the afternoon the sun disappeared again and snow returned with a roaring wind whipping it sideways. It snowed for 45 minutes or so but didn't stick, and there was no snow on the ground when we hit the sack.
This morning? We awoke to about an inch of new snow that is in the process of melting away.
