Recognize that guy holding the championship trophy? That's Dartmouth grad Jared Gerbino '20 after he helped the Firenze (Florence) Guelfi to a 21-17 win over the Milano Seamen in the Italian Football League’s (IFL) national championship game yesterday at Stadio Dall’ara in Bologna.
A computer-generated translation of the game story said of Gerbino that he "literally drags his opponents running into the endzone," on the 19-yard touchdown reception that put Firenze Guelfi ahead for good in the championship game.
Gerbino, who played tight end and running back in addition to sharing quarterback duties under coach Art Briles, was interviewed in the run-up to the Italian "Super Bowl" here:
He finished the regular season running for 727 yards and 13 TDs in eight games, third in the IFL, and had 472 receiving yards with seven touchdowns, also third in the league.
He helped his team advance to the championship game by running for 90 yards and a touchdown in a semifinal victory over the defending champion Parma Panthers and is featured prominently here in his No. 1 jersey:
EXTRA POINT
While friends who have a lake house are away on their annual week-long vacation with family they generously invited us to spend the holiday weekend on the lake. We packed up everything we thought we would need yesterday and headed 23 miles up to their beautiful lakeside home.
Did I say we packed up everything we thought we would need? We forgot one important thing: Scrabble. Sorry, but it's just not a vacation weekend for us without the legendary word game.
Given that this is a lake house, we figured they had to have Scrabble. We thought we'd looked absolutely everywhere and had come up empty until I opened up the beautiful old wooden trunk they used for a coffee table. Lo and behold, Scrabble!
And as an extra bonus, Boggle, our second-favorite word game.
