Memorial Day

Following up on the 1956 Dartmouth-produced video shared here a couple of days ago is another, this one from 1950 and featuring future Saturday Night Live legend Buck Henry '52 in the role of fictional freshman Peter:

 

It's fun to watch for the campus scenes you'll recognize and those you won't, for a quick glimpse at downtown Hanover and a look at the late, lamented Hanover Country Club. 

For the uninitiated, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine had a story in 1987 about the star of the video, who was responsible for this memorable scene in the film The Graduate.

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When I worked at the local newspaper we had a news writer who was always cheery, to a fault.

I have a clear memory years ago of him wishing me 'Happy Memorial Day" and not really knowing how to respond.

I posted this on Memorial Day last year and in case you weren't wasting time on this site back then, here it is again. Think about this next fall, whether you are on the field or in the grandstand at Memorial Field:

If that's hard to read, here is what it says:

A Tribute

From the forty seven surviving

Dartmouth veterans of

the Civil War 1861-65

to the

third four hundred and seven

men of Dartmouth who entered

their country’s service in

the Great War 1914-1918

November

1923

Worth Watching Again. And Again. And Again.

 From Dartmouth's celebration of Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month:

Up next in our #AsianPacificHeritageMonth profiles is senior Masaki Aerts of the football team:

• Government major
• 9 catches for 103 yards in career thus far
• Famously caught the “Miracle in Cambridge” Hail Mary pass to beat Harvard in 2019, 9-6https://t.co/Dw4LgowuJ1 pic.twitter.com/UZGgomUL7Y

— Dartmouth Athletics (@dartmouthsports) May 25, 2021

On the subject of the "Miracle in Cambridge," it took a lot of fiddling with a couple of "freeware" programs to turn this into a GIF and figure out how to post it here, but this is fun and should work better after the first time it cycles through:

It seems as if every time I watch it I see something new, from the actual tip, to the catch, to the reactions of players looking on to the various fans in the background.

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This is from a few days back but NJ.com has a story headlined Giants roster breakdown that includes this (LINK):

EDGE Niko Lalos: He was a fun story last year coming out of Dartmouth as a UDFA and making an impact on a few games, but he’s a long shot now.

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I finished a novel the other day and before I downloaded a new one onto my Kindle I pawed through the bookshelves here at the BGA World Headquarters hungry for something to read. We donated a great many books when we (supposedly) downsized with our move to our Vermont hillside, but there was one set of well-worn, hardcover volumes I would never part with. Here's how they are described on the Internet:

"Journeys Through Bookland, published in 1901 by Bellows-Reeve Company, contains 10 volumes of poems, myths, Bible stories, fairy tales, and excerpts from children's novels, as well as a guide to the series. It has been lauded as "a new and original plan for reading, applied to the world’s best literature for children."

I can't begin to tell you how many hours I spent with these books growing up. Time and again I would pull them off the shelf and get lost in Gulliver's Travels, The Swiss Family Robinson, A Dog of Flanders and so many more stories and poems and pen-and-ink drawings.

I eventually downloaded a thriller written by an old friend onto my Kindle the other day. After I swipe to the final page I'm sure I'll probably send the author an email telling him how much I enjoyed it. But no matter how good his book is, it could never sweep me away to imagined places the way those battered old books on the shelf did all those years ago.

The Way We Were

A loyal reader sent along a link to a video titled Dartmouth Visited (1956) that at one point talks about the wonders of a football weekend in Hanover and includes shots of Coach Bob Blackman helping instruct placekicking, a packed Memorial Field and action on the field. This starts at the football segment:

You know what? It's a holiday weekend and you have the time. CLICK HERE to watch the entire 30-minute film. It's fun to see the buildings that are familiar today and to shake your head at just how corny you'll find some of the presentation. Here's how the film is described in the accompanying blurb:

This promotional film for potential applicants to Dartmouth College follows a fictional applicant, "Bert," through an admissions interview, classes, Great Issues lectures, and student activities. It includes interior views of buildings such as Baker Library and Webster Hall, President Eisenhower's commencement visit, an ROTC parade, football, a talk with President Dickey, and aerial views of the campus.

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You will need a subscription to read the full piece in The Athletic under the headline Baylor plans to get off the ground under Dave Aranda with a clear identity and a new vibe, but here's the part you may find of interest (LINK):

The Bears have multiple capable options at slot receiver, Gavin Holmes (244 receiving yards in 2020); Josh Fleeks (181) and Dartmouth transfer Drew Estrada.

(New receivers coach Chansi) Stuckey came away from spring impressed by Estrada, who caught 110 career passes in three seasons at Dartmouth. “He’s explosive,” Stuckey said.

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Memorial Day weekend was always the unofficial start of summer on the Jersey Shore when I was growing up.

We are going to celebrate the holiday this year with Hanover friends at their lake house here in Vermont. We will not be bringing our bathing suits. As I write this it is 44 degrees at the lake and it will be dropping to the mid-30s tonight. 

That's A Wrap

 

Tobi Adedara receives the Most Improved Defensive Lineman award from Duane Brooks.

For those of you who haven't been visiting BGA Premium this spring, here is the full list of spring "Most Improved" awards presented after last night's final practice:

Quarterback - Nick Howard
Running Back - Keegan McHugh
Tight End - JJ Jones
Wide Receiver - Masaki Aerts
Offensive Line - Cal Atkeson
Defensive Line - Tobi Adedara
Linebacker - Jalen Mackie
Safety - Landon McDermott
Corner - Tyron Herrin
Nickels - Seth Verilus
Specialist - Josh Greene
Strength & Conditioning - Leonard St. Gourdin

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The Dartmouth has a story under the headline Football resumes full-contact practices, looks ahead to fall season that includes this (LINK):

For starting quarterback Derek Kyler ’21, who will be playing during his fifth year at Dartmouth as a result of the Ivy League’s decision to expand eligibility, the opportunity to return to the Big Green was an easy decision to make. Kyler said he would not allow his last season with the team to be one marred by pandemic restrictions. 

“I love Dartmouth, I love Coach T and the coaching staff, the QB coach, it was really a no-brainer to me,” Kyler said. “I wasn't gonna go out like that and just have that be my last football game and I didn't even know it at the time … I was ready to come back and work with the guys … and hopefully get another ring.”

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In case you were wondering, the Big Green reports for preseason camp on Thursday, Aug. 19. That's 84 days from now, or 12 weeks if you prefer. ;-)

BGA Premium wrapped up spring coverage last night but, as Steve Jobs would say, there's "one more thing." The plan is to post a look at the incoming freshman class, with comments on each player from coach Buddy Teevens, as early as next week. Keep an eye on BGA Daily for a link to that post after it goes live.

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Next on tap for Memorial Field (after the June 13 Dartmouth graduation):

Buddy Teevens reports that upwards of 400 campers have already signed up.

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A few updates on previous PATs . . .

A year later the robot vacuum continues to motor right along, doing its thing largely without complaining. I say largely because if I don't pull out the brush and pivot wheel to remove tangled golden retriever fur once a week or so it does complain, stopping and beeping for attention. I continue to highly recommend one of these vacuums, particularly a "low rider" like the one we have, which even motors away under the couch.

The '84 VW poptop camper is purring like a kitten thanks to our "Bus Whisperer." The new radio with Bluetooth and USB is pretty sweet although I'm disappointed it won't play nice with my iPod Touch. Turns out the iPod operating system, which topped out a couple of years ago, is too old to hook up with the new radio. We haven't been camping in the V-dub yet this season but have our eyes on a trip to Acadia National Park. We've even flirted with the idea of a drive to Prince Edward Island if the Canadian border crossing opens this summer. That trip probably won't happen but it's fun to dream about.

We've been in touch with the folks who own the off-the-grid tiny house we lived in the summer after selling our house on Hanover's Moose Mountain and we've pretty much settled on spending an unplugged week at the place in July.

That Certain Dartmouth '14 has made reservations to fly home for a couple of weeks over the end of July and early August. Hooray! She'll be here for the "Christmas in August" we'll be having with Mrs. BGA's side of the family. It's been more than 18 months since we've seen any of 'em after gathering together every Christmas ever since we were married.

The tick problem I wrote about a few weeks back has only gotten worse. I went up one of our local trails earlier this week and picked a half dozen of the annoying things off my legs along the way. I'll not be using that trail again.

As for the black fly season, which usually runs from Mother's Day to Father's Day, the news is better. Instead of the usual swarms, I've probably seen more ticks than black flies. I'm not sure what that's about but I'm not complaining . . . about the black fly side, at least.

I don't think the "Cascading Petunias" I transplanted from the Aerogarden to hanging baskets are going to make it. The flowers themselves are doing fine but they don't know they are down at the end of stems that are drying up badly as we speak. I'm afraid it's only a matter of time.

After averaging perhaps eight miles a day driving for much of the past year (two over and two back from my favorite trail, roughly the same distance to our one-room post office to get the mail) I've discovered how expensive gas has become. While Mrs. BGA rides a free shuttle bus to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center each day the schedule wouldn't work for football practice so I needed to make the 29-mile drive myself. That's 58 miles a day times 12 days of practice, or roughly 700 miles of driving. Without question that's more than I drove in the previous six months combined. It's an incredibly scenic drive on a largely empty interstate but those fill-ups have been annoying. Stay tuned for some more news about that. In the meantime, a huge thank you to those of you who have taken the sting out of those visits to the pump.

And finally, the flip flops are out. I pull on a pair of lightweight hiking shoes before I hit the trail each day but apart from that all you'll find on my feet until fall are my "Go Aheads." Even today, despite it being 39 degrees when I walked The Wonder Dog, my toes were free. Now that I think about it, there is a wedding coming up and I'm guessing Mrs. BGA would frown on me wearing flip flops . . .  but you get the idea ;-)

Happy Birthday, Coach Yukica

Joe Yukica, who guided Dartmouth to three Ivy League championships, turns 90 today.

A onetime All-East receiver at Penn State, Yukica served as a Bob Blackman assistant from 1961-65 and then as head coach at New Hampshire for two years before Boston College hired him away to breathe new life into its struggling football program. Over his 10-year run with the Eagles Yukica posted a sterling 67-37 record, highlighted by a 14-13 win over Texas in 1976.

Yukica spent just one more season at the Heights after the upset of the seventh-ranked Longhorns before being lured back to Dartmouth, where in his initial season he tapped a senior named Buddy Teevens to be his starting quarterback. The result was a 6-1 Ivy League record and a conference championship in 1978. Yukica would go on the lead Dartmouth to Ivy titles in 1981 and '82 as well.

After Yukica suffered three losing seasons in a row under a new athletic director he was fired with a year remaining on his contract. Always a man of principle, he decided to sue for the right to fulfill the final year of his contract. The Los Angeles Times had a story about what followed under the headline, He Fought the System. . . And Won: Dartmouth Fired Joe Yukica, but Joe Yukica Fired Back and Regained Job as Football Coach. (LINK) 

Among those who vouched for Yukica was Joe Paterno, a young assistant at PSU when Yukica was a Nittany Lion standout. The then-Penn State head coach flew into a tiny airport in Haverhill, N.H., in order to testify on Yukica's behalf.

For a story about Yukica that appeared on his local community website a couple of years ago, click HERE.

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Former Dartmouth reserve safety Matt Burke has been hired by the New York Jets in a “game-management” position where he will aid with “situational football and game-planning football prep work. He will not be a position coach, nor will he call plays.” (LINK)

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Former linebacker Jeff Blackburn's '91 return to Amazon makes more sense with yesterday's news about the online giant. From a Bloomberg story (LINK):

When news broke in mid-May that Jeff Blackburn was rejoining Amazon.com Inc. to run the company’s entertainment division, industry observers figured big changes were afoot. Why else would Blackburn quit his job at a Silicon Valley venture firm after just five weeks?

Then the world learned that Amazon was looking to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company on Wednesday announced it would acquire the legendary Hollywood studio for $8.45 billion, a princely sum for a catalog that includes the James Bond, Robocop and Rocky franchises.

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One of those creepy celebrity websites takes a look at women's soccer standout Christen Press, daughter of Cody Press '80, a former Joe Yukica co-captain. (LINK)

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The Northeast Conference has released its 2021 football  schedule and Sept. 25 Dartmouth opponent Sacred Heart's slate looks like this:

Sept. 24 Bucknell
Sept. 11 at Bryant
Sept. 18 Morgan State
Sept. 25 at Dartmouth
Oct. 2 at Howard
Oct. 9 Merrimack
Oct. 16 Central Connecticut
Oct. 23 Duquesne
Nov. 6 at St. Francis
Nov. 13 Wagner
Nov. 20 at LIU

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In this space yesterday I wrote about the bald eagle I saw land along the interstate Tuesday night and and how I wasn't able to snap a picture of it.

Early this morning I was on my daily mountain hike (more of a run today) and when I came around a bend I discovered I had company on the trail. I slowed to a walk, swiped up the camera on the iPod Touch with which I was listening to a podcast, and got as close as I felt comfortable before snapping a picture.

Let's be serious. If I couldn't get a better picture than this of a porcupine waddling ahead of me on the trail this morning, how could I have gotten a shot of an eagle landing and then taking off again a couple of nights ago?

Caveat Emptor

With spring practice winding down and Ivy League football returning in the fall (barring something we don't even want to imagine), I thought it would be interesting to see what the ticket re-sellers were up to these days with regard to Ivy League football. There wasn't much of interest online except on the GAMETIME site. From the re-seller's Dartmouth web page (LINK):

College football historians understand the importance of the Ivy League in the history of the sport. More importantly, they also know that the Dartmouth Big Green is one of the most storied programs in Ivy League history. In modern times, it’s been relatively easy to track down cheap Dartmouth football tickets. However, that could start to change in the years to come. The Big Green appears to be a team on the rise, meaning last-minute Dartmouth football tickets will once again be in high demand.

The re-seller was complimentary about the fellow with the whistle in a paragraph headlined, Everyone’s Buddy:

If there’s been one prominent figure in Dartmouth football in modern times, it’s undoubtedly Buddy Teevens. As the starting quarterback at Dartmouth, he led the Big Green to the 1978 Ivy League title. He returned as head coach in 1987 and won Ivy League titles in 1990 and 1991
before leaving for other jobs. Of course, Teevens returned in 2005 to fix a struggling program. It was a long journey that included a winless 2008 season. But the school had faith in Teevens, who eventually got Dartmouth back to the top of the Ivy League, winning conference titles in 2015 and 2019, setting up the Big Green for bright days ahead.

But GAMETIME was a little ahead of its skis in the section titled, How much are Dartmouth Football tickets?

Dartmouth ticket prices will differ depending on a number of factors. Generally speaking, the average ticket price for Dartmouth tickets is around $52 a ticket. But you can be looking at a few hundred dollars more, depending on the opponent, stage of play, and demand.

Green Alert Take: You did notice the headline on this posting, right?

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BGA Premium wrapped up it's three-part look at this year's freshmen with coach Buddy Teevens last night. The team's final practice will be tomorrow evening with a recap to appear on BGA later in the night. And be sure to keep an eye out for a look at the incoming freshmen on BGA Premium as early as next week.

A reminder that signup for BGA Premium for the 2021 season won't begin until early July. Until then, the spring coverage is on me ;-)

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Elsewhere in the Ivy League, Princeton Athletic Director Mollie Marcoux Samaan is leaving the school after seven years to become commissioner of the LPGA. An accomplished amateur golfer, Marcoux Samaan's senior thesis at Princeton was titled, The Social Construction of Sport and Gender: A History of Women's Golf from 1895 to 1955. (LINK)

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The Daily Pennsylvanian has a story headlined, Wharton receives $5 million Bitcoin donation, the largest crypto donation in Penn history. (LINK)

Green Alert Take: Had to chuckle about the "in Penn history" part. Seriously, UPenn has been around in some form or another since 1740 and in all that time no one gave more than $5 million in crypto currency? Hard to believe it never happened 50 or 75 years ago, huh?  ;-) 

From the story (and the italics are mine):

"The donation was announced just one day after Bitcoin’s value decreased by nearly 30%. Immediately upon receiving the donation, Penn liquidated it through NYDIG, an alternative asset manager which regulates and verifies Bitcoins to institutions and high net-worth persons."

Green Alert Take 2: Those Wharton folks aren't dummies.

More from the story:

"Penn began accepting crypto donations in January 2021. As a general rule, Penn will sell cryptocurrency as soon as it is received."

Green Alert Take 3: See the final sentence in Green Alert Take 2.

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CLICK HERE to read a Q&A in The Dartmouth with school president Phil Hanlon in which he “reflects on the challenges faced by the College throughout the pandemic and discusses its impact on Dartmouth’s future.”

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I have what I freely admit is a well-deserved reputation for being a somewhat slow driver. Maybe that's one of the reasons why I love our '84 VW Vanagon camper. It gives me an excuse for taking my time going down the road.

I generally drive a little faster going home after Dartmouth football practice, the better to get you that night's BGA Premium report in a timely fashion. That was unfortunate last night.

Don't get the wrong idea. I didn't get my first-ever ticket or anything. And by most people's standards, I wasn't actually going fast. Probably 68 or so.

The unfortunate part was that even 68 mph was too fast to pull over and pull out my camera before it was too late.

It was about 7:40 last night on deserted I-91 north in Norwich, Vt. that something to my left caught my eye.

It took a second to register that with huge wings spread wide, legs extended and a brilliant white head it was a bald eagle landing gently on the grass alongside the passing lane. I don't know if it spotted some road kill, a rabbit or some other prey but by the time it occurred to me to slow down, pull over and grab my camera I knew it would be gone.

And The Candidates Are . . .

From a Cincinnati Bengals press release (LINK):

Balloting by Season Ticket Members to round out the Bengals' inaugural Ring of Honor class starts Monday and runs through June 18.

Season Ticket Holders can vote for two nominees to see who joins Bengals founder Paul Brown and Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Anthony Muñoz.

Among  the candidates is former Dartmouth linebacker Reggie Williams '76, in the bottom right of the graphic above. The story in the posting included this look at his career:

An excerpt from the capsule above:

As powerful as he was on the field, he was a force of nature off it. In a span of two years he won the Byron "Whizzer" White Award for Humanitarian Service (1985), NFL Man of the Year (1986) and Sports Illustrated's Co-Sportsmen of the Year (1987). A College Football Hall of Fame inductee and one of the great players in Ivy League history, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Dartmouth in 1990. 

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Staying in Ohio, the Cleveland.com Browns page has a lengthy look at the unusual route some of the team's assistant coaches took to their football careers. Dartmouth plays a role for one of the coaches and surprise, the coach in question is not Callie Brownson. (LINK)

It's tight end coach Drew Petzing, who graduated from Vermont's Middlebury College and went on to coach at Harvard and Yale. The son of CPAs, he thought he might be headed for an MBA until . . . 

He spent a month in the Tuck Business Bridge Program at Dartmouth, a month-long intensive course that prepares its participants for an MBA program. The people were great. The relationships were great. The work?

“I walked out of it thinking, ‘I don’t want to do this,’” Petzing said.

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Dartmouth sports information has a quick look at last Saturday's Green-White scrimmage HERE.

Be sure to check out BGA Premium tonight for a little look back at the scrimmage as well as the third and final installment of coach Buddy Teevens' comments on the players in the Class of 2024.

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A story in The Dartmouth headlined, College’s decision not to offer air conditioning this summer leaves students frustrated has me thinking back to my days in grad school at Penn State. Trust me when I tell you summers in Centre County, Pa., are significantly hotter and a whole lot more humid than they are in the Upper Valley. And oh by the way, there was no air conditioning in the dorms when I was there.

I don't remember where Dave, a neighbor in the grad hdorm, was from. I seem to recall it was somewhere in the Midwest. What I do recall was Dave telling me shortly after we met that he came to town on an overnight bus and liked to travel light. Maybe not Jack Reacher light – meaning just a toothbrush – but we're talking seriously light. The guy was a minimalist before minimalism was cool.

Speaking of cool, Dave had a large box fan humming in his dorm window one of the first times I dropped by his room. It was a steamy late-August day and I asked where he bought it. He said he didn't. Buy it, that is. He told me he brought it from home.

Turns out Dave had interviewed at Penn State shortly before graduation in the spring and as he walked around campus he noticed a box fan in virtually every dorm window. That's how hot and sticky it is in State College.

I've forgotten a lot of my fellow grad students from all those years ago and can't remember Dave's last name or face. But I still laugh at the thought of a guy hopping off a Greyhound with everything he needed for the next year or two crammed into a pack on his back . . .  and a large box fan in his hand.

Maybe the poor snowflakes unhappy about the air conditioning situation at Dartmouth could tear a page out of Dave's book.

Back-To-Back (And Sometimes More)

Teams Winning Consecutive Ivy League Football Championships

Dartmouth
1962, 1963
1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973
1981, 1982
1990, 1991, 1992

Harvard
1974, 1975
1982, 1983
2007, 2008
2013, 2014, 2015

Penn
1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986
1993, 1994
2002, 2003
2009, 2010
2015, 2016

Princeton
1963, 1964

Yale
1967, 1968, 1969
1976, 1977

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While Dartmouth football won the Ivy League football championship every year from 1969-1973 it turns out that was not the greatest title run in school history.

The Big Green won six consecutive championships between 1893 and 1898 in what was known as the Triangular Football League. Dartmouth joined Amherst and Williams in founding the league, which for a short while also included MIT. The Big Green participated in the league from 1887-1898, winning eight titles in the 12 years:

1887 – MIT
1888 – Dartmouth/MIT
1889 – Dartmouth
1890 – Williams
1891 – Williams
1892 – Amherst
1893 – Dartmouth
1894 – Dartmouth
1895 – Dartmouth
1896 – Dartmouth
1897 – Dartmouth
1898 – Dartmouth

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The Daily Pennsylvanian catches us up on what the Ivy League school-by-school plan is for the return to in-person learning in the fall HERE. For the most part, all students without medical or religious exemptions will need to be vaccinated and faculty/staff are strongly encouraged to get the shots as well.

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Before watching Lefty's dramatic win at the PGA Championship yesterday, Mrs. BGA and I transplanted the "Cascading Petunias" from our Aerogarden into a couple of hanging baskets. Time will tell how they do outside, but regardless, the seed kit bought in late fall was about the best $15.99 I've spent in a long time. They helped brighten a long, dark, cold winter.

The flowers were planted Nov. 1, bloomed in early December and were thriving right up until we transplanted them. They are looking a little peaked in our sun room this morning, but maybe that's to be expected after being moved from their hydroponic home and landing in potting soil for the first time.

A Familiar Name

From a story in today's Boston Globe story about a Certain Mother and Daughter from Massachusetts:

As a senior in 1983, Moira Teevens was the Globe’s All-Scholastic female athlete of the year in track and field. When she was inducted into the Silver Lake Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009, presenter Steve Duggan, said “she was truly one of the most dedicated, successful female athletes that Silver Lake Regional High School has produced.”

And, of course, the reason the story is referenced on this page:

Moira Teevens (Nobili) followed her older brother, Buddy, to Dartmouth College, and while the latter established his greatness on the gridiron, Moira was a three-time All-Ivy League selection in cross-country (1984-86). Upon her graduation in 1987, she held records in the 1,500, 3,000, 5,000, and distance medley relay.

Running has been at the forefront in the Nobili household for a long time. Izzy’s older sister, Madaket, who also starred at Nauset, is a junior on the cross-country and track teams at Dartmouth, where Buddy is in the second stint of a 20-plus-year tenure as football coach of the Big Green. 

Find the full story HERE. 

Green Alert Take: I've written about this before but when Moira Teevens was running at Dartmouth I was the college's assistant director of sports information and one of my responsibilities was to grab the 35mm Nikon and shoot team photos. It could be a thankless task trying to get the lacrosse, crew or cross country teams to line up and get the shot. Think herding cats.

Making it even harder, in the days before digital cameras it was critical to take a number of photos to make sure no one was looking away, making a face, hand signaling or whatever.

One day I was sent out to Hanover Country Club to shoot the women's cross country team and there wasn't much interest in assembling and posing for the picture. After a few minutes of frustration, Moira realized I needed a little help. To this day I remember the entire team falling into line when she read them the riot act. She had coach written all over her even back then.

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Dartmouth's Undefeated Football Seasons

Year	Coach	W-L	PF	PA	+
1925	Jesse Hawley	8-0	340	29	311
1962	Bob Blackman	9-0	231	57	174
1965	Bob Blackman	9-0	271	71	200
1970	Bob Blackman	9-0	311	42	269
1996	John Lyons	10-0	275	104	171

1925	Opponent	Score	Location
Sept. 26	Norwich	59-0	Hanover
Oct. 3	Hobart	34-0	Hanover
Oct. 10	Vermont	50-0	Hanover
Oct. 17	Maine	56-0	Hanover
Oct. 24	Harvard	32-9	Cambridge
Oct. 31	Brown	14-0	Providence
Nov. 7	Cornell	62-13	Hanover
Nov. 14	Chicago	33-7	Chicago
1962	Opponent	Score	Location
Sept. 29	Massachusetts	22-3	Hanover
Oct. 6	Penn	17-0	Hanover
Oct. 13	Brown	41-0	Providence
Oct 20	Holy Cross	10-0	Hanover
Oct. 27	Harvard	24-6	Cambridge
Nov. 3	Yale	9-0	New Haven
Nov. 10	Columbia	42-0	Hanover
Nov. 17	Cornell	28-21	Ithaca
Nov. 24	Princeton	38-27	Princeton
1965	Opponent	Score	Location
Sept. 25	New Hampshire	56-6	Hanover
Oct. 2	Holy Cross	27-6	Worcester
Oct.9	Penn	24-19	Hanover
Oct. 16	Brown	35-9	Providence
Oct. 23	Harvard	14-0	Cambridge
Oct. 30	Yale	20-17	New Haven
Nov. 6	Columbia	47-0	New York
Nov. 13	Cornell	20-0	Hanover
Nov. 20	Princeton	28-14	Princeton
1970	Opponent	Score	Location
Sept. 26	Massachusetts	27-0	Hanover
Oct. 3	Holy Cross	50-14	Worcester
Oct. 10	Princeton	38-0	Hanover
Oct. 17	Brown	42-14	Hanover
Oct. 24	Harvard	37-14	Cambridge
Oct. 31	Yale	10-0	New Haven
Nov. 7	Columbia	56-0	Hanover
Nov. 14	Cornell	24-0	Ithaca
Nov. 21	Penn	28-0	Philadelphia
1996	Opponent	Score	Location
Sept. 21	Penn	24-22	Hanover
Sept. 28	Lehigh	21-14	Bethlehem
Oct. 5	Fordham	20-7	Hanover
Oct. 12	Holy Cross	35-7	Hanover
Oct. 19	Yale	40-6	Hanover
Oct. 26	Cornell	38-21	Ithaca
Nov. 2	Harvard	6-3	Cambridge
Nov. 9	Columbia	40-0	Hanover
Nov. 16	Brown	27-24	Providence
Nov. 23	Princeton	24-0	Princeton

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Remember what was written in this space one week ago today? I'll remind you:

Our emerald green lawn is overrun by shockingly yellow dandelions and you know what? Although the lawnmower will take care of that tomorrow it really does look beautiful today. 

I take it back. Not the bit about how pretty the dandelions look when they are in full bloom. It's what comes afterward that isn't very beautiful. In fact, it's downright ugly.

Even though I mowed the dandelions down they've now shot their puffs up all over our lawn. And I mean all over it.

I'm glad we're not in a neighborhood where passersby will shake their heads at our less-than-manicured yard because it means I can spend my afternoon in front of the TV rooting for Lefty to somehow hold on and win the PGA. The puffs can wait until tomorrow, and if they happen to blow away they won't infiltrate a nearby neighbor's lawn for one reason. There aren't any. Nearby lawns, that is!