Monday, Monday

 From the Dartmouth football office:

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On Saturday afternoon Dartmouth's Woods Watch Party replayed the 2017 shootout against Princeton that Dartmouth won by a 54-44 score behind Jared Gerbino's 202 yards and four touchdowns on the ground. Gerbino's performance landed him tied for ninth on the all-time Dartmouth list for rushing yards in a game.

Following up on last week's look at the top passing games in Big Green history, here are the top single game running performances by an individual on the Dartmouth ledger:

Rank	Name	Year/Vs	Yards	Att	Avg	TD	Score
1	Nick Schwieger ‘12	2011 Cornell	257	26	9.9	1	W 33-24
2	Greg Patton ‘13	2009 Cornell	243	29	8.4	2	W 20-17 (2 OT)
3	Nick Schwieger ‘12	2009 Columbia	242	29	8.3	1	W 28-6
4	Al Rosier ‘91	1991 Brown	229	25	9.2	4	W 45-13
5	Shon Page ‘90	1990 Harvard	222	23	9.7	2	W 17-0
6	David Clark ‘90	1989 Penn	219	51	4.3	1	W 24-0
7	Nick Schwieger ‘12	2010 Bucknell	216	25	8.6	2	W 43-20
8	Tom Spangenberg ‘64	1962 Princeton	208	29	7.2	2	W 38-27
T-9	David Clark ‘90	1989 Brown	202	30	6.7	0	W 12-6
T-9	Jared Gerbino ‘20	2017 Princeton	202	32	6.3	4	W 54-44
11	Bill Roberts ‘51	1949 Holy Cross	195	18	10.8	1	W 31-7
12	John Short 71	1970 Cornell	192	28	6.9	1	W 24-0
13	Al Rosier ‘91	1991 Princeton	190	34	5.6	1	W 31-13
13	Dylan Karczewski	1997 Cornell	190	34	5.6	1	W 24-20
15	Al Rosier ‘91	1990 Princeton	186	25	74	1	W 23-6

 

It shouldn't surprise anyone that big numbers on the ground translate to victories with greater frequency than big numbers through the air, which so often are the result of a team struggling to come from behind. While the Big Green was just 7-8 in the top-15 individual passing games as posted here last week (LINK), Dartmouth was 15-0 in games featuring top running performances.

You have to drop all the way down to the 19th-best rushing performance by a Dartmouth player (Milan Williams with 179 yards on 30 carries with one TD) before finding a Big Green loss. That game was a 31-28 overtime defeat against Colgate in 2007, a contest Dartmouth led, 28-0, midway through the third quarter. In some regards proving a point, even in that game the team with the leading rusher came out on top as the Raiders' Jordan Scott ran for 211 yards and three touchdowns.

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The Daily Pennsylvanian takes a look back at one of the toughest losses the Big Green ever suffered in a story headlined Reliving Penn football's 2013 marathon four-overtime victory over Dartmouth; The nearly four-hour contest remains the longest in Ivy League history. (LINK)

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Scroll well down a site called Sportscasting.com and you'll find a story headlined, Russell Wilson Will Always Cherish the Lessons His Father Taught Him Before His Tragic Death (LINK). From the story:

Russell Wilson’s father Harrison was a gifted athlete in his own right. He was good enough to play both baseball and football while attending Dartmouth College. He was especially talented on the football field, racking up 65 catches for 860 total yards in his four-year career, before going on to get a law degree and enjoying a successful career as a lawyer.

Yet Harrison Wilson also harbored dreams of breaking into the NFL — and very nearly did so. In fact, he spent one training camp as a member of the San Diego Chargers, according to a video on the Seahawks’ webiste. In the final preseason game, he even caught a touchdown pass. Although he didn’t end up making the team, that catch remained one of the proudest moments of his life.

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EXTRA POINT

There was a time when this made you sit up and take notice. No longer. I read somewhere that these are the two most-overused words on TV and I can't argue. They've lost all meaning.