The “Harvard Heave” decisively won the award with 71 percent of first place votes, while the men’s hockey team’s win against No. 2 Cornell University came in second and the women’s rugby team winning its fourth Ivy League championship in five years rounded out the top three.Green Alert Take: It's just my opinion, but "Harvard Heave" doesn't work for me.
Also from the story in The D, ice hockey's Drew O’Connor outlasted linebacker Jack Traynor for male athlete of the year with diver Justin Sodokoff third.
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Dartmouth sports publicity has a story about the awards handed out at the virtual football banquet Sunday afternoon HERE.
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The updated Dartmouth football roster has been posted HERE.Green Alert Take: Apart from fifth-years Drew Estrada, Seth Simmer, Ross Andreasik and DJ Avery there are just 20 seniors on the roster, Dartmouth's smallest senior class in recent memory.
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Incoming Dartmouth lineman Nick Schwitzgebel has been selected for the Greater Cleveland Coaches Football Association 48th annual East-West All-Star football game which, unfortunately, will not be played this year, a victim of the pandemic. (LINK)
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Speaking of recruits, Dartmouth football has had great success mining private schools in Texas in recent years and is on the list of a rising senior quarterback who passed for 4,102 yards and 43 touchdowns last year per a story headlined the Top returning stat leaders, private school passers in the Dallas Morning News coverage area. (LINK)
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Thanks to a Friend of BGA for sharing a story out of New Jersey centered around the good work of Joel "Jody" Hubbard '82. From the story (LINK):
Pastor Joel Hubbard calls it the Manna Food Depot.
“I get here and the room is empty,” he explained one recent morning as we sat in the so-called multipurpose room of his Park United Methodist Church in Bloomfield, N.J. “And then by 10:30, there’s food in it. And then by 1 o’clock there’s not.”
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Hubbard is a former personal banker and college football coach. He graduated from Dartmouth College, where he was an offensive lineman, in 1982; was ordained in 1987; has four adult children and “one living” grandson, who is about to turn 4. His wife, Grace, is the church’s director of sacred music. The mask she wears at the food pantry says “Grace.”Click the bio from Hubbard's senior season to make it more readable:
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"The good news is I think we're all pretty optimistic that we've got a chance to pull this off and play football this fall. That's what we're working toward," said Patty Viverito, a driving force in the FCS as commissioner of both the Missouri Valley Football Conference and the Pioneer Football League.Green Alert Take: I knew the commissioner quoted in the story was the commish of two different leagues but until the STATS recent ranking of conferences (LINK) it hadn't occurred to me just how disparate her leagues are. Missouri Valley is the top-ranked FCS conference in the nation and, apart from independents, the Pioneer Football League is at the bottom of the barrel. I've used this before but there must be times when legislation is being proposed that the commish has to be as conflicted as a chameleon on a plaid shirt.
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Dartmouth has named Washington Capitals assistant coach Reid Cashman as head men's ice hockey coach, succeeding Bob Gaudet. (LINK)Cashman is a former assistant with the Hershey Bears and spent five seasons as an assistant at Quinnipiac, helping the Bobcats twice make the national finals. A 2007 graduate of Quinnipiac, Cashman earned All-America honors, was a member of the ECAC All-Decade team for the 2000s and was named a Hobey Baker Top-10 finalist in 2005.
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EXTRA POINTI wish I could take credit for digging up this piece written and narrated by former college football coach and NFL great Bill Curry, but it was FootballScoop that thought to re-post this in light of current events. It's just three minutes long but well worth watching:
