Each year BGA Daily has posted charts featuring the Dartmouth offense, defense and special teams for the coming season. Given that it has gotten a little trickier with the COVID "Super Senior" variable this year's charts are based entirely on the roster on the team website. Corrections are encouraged.
Today: The Offense. Defense will be posted tomorrow and Special Teams on Thursday.
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| (Click on chart to enlarge.) Celebrating the anniversary of its annual Athlete of the Year Award, the (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Gazette had a STORY last week fashioned around its first male winner, Todd Twachtmann '87, a four-sport standout in high school (baseball, basketball, football and golf). |
Twachtmann arrived at Dartmouth after a heralded high school career that saw him run for 1,192 and 1,521 yards his final two seasons and twice be selected to the Iowa all-state first team.
The 2010 inductee into the Iowa prep Football Hall of Fame would go on to be the leading rusher on Dartmouth's 1983 freshman football team with 165 yards and a 5.3-yard average. He also finished third in receiving with nine catches for 137 yards and two touchdowns.
But after one season of football he turned his attention to baseball, where he enjoyed a terrific career.
As a Big Green senior the catcher nicknamed "T-Square" batted .416 while serving a solo captain of a team that not only won the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League title with a 14-2 record but advanced to the NCAA Northeast Regional and defeated Michigan, 4-0, in its tournament opener.
Twachtmann – the rare Big Green athlete to become a father while still in school when his wife delivered twin girls after his sophomore year – won Dartmouth's Kenneth Archibald Prize for the best all around athlete with regard to moral worth and high standing in scholarship and graduated with two engineering degrees before earning his MBA from the University of Iowa.
Even with all that on his plate, he went on to play on six Amateur Softball Association national championship teams and represent the United States in the Pan American Games.
When (head coach Kevin) Stefanski met with Brownson and told her she'd be receiving an assistant role under O'Shea, Brownson couldn't hide her excitement."Inside, I was like, 'Yes,'" she said.
Brownson is the head coach of the U.S. Women's Tackle National Team playing in the World Championships later this month. She played for the '13 and '17 gold-medal winners.
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EXTRA POINT
We're back from our couple of days at our good friends' lake house where Griff the Wonder Dog feels 100 percent at home. Seeing him hop out of the car and run right to the front door of the house on his own reminded me of a story a loyal Dartmouth fan once told me.
An alum from the late '50s, he lived most of the year in Florida but would come back to the Upper Valley each year for nine or 10 weeks, depending entirely on whether Dartmouth's final game was home or away. If it was here, he'd be here for 10 weeks. If the game was at Princeton, he'd pack up and spend the night down there before driving home to Florida.
That's right. The fellow arranged his life around Dartmouth football games, returning each year to the same extended stay motel. He told me once that when he'd pull into the motel parking lot after the long drive from Florida his golden retriever would run right to the building's main entrance, and once inside it would run down the hall and wait for him in front of the door to the exact room he stayed in each year.
