Saturday Stuff

A Bloomberg story spun out of the Ivy Football Association Dinner saw some of the attendees giving their thoughts on the Super Bowl. From the story (LINK):

Several former Dartmouth players — among them retired Goldman Sachs partner Robert Downey — insisted the Bengals should be playing the Eagles. After all, former Bengal and Cincinnati city council member Reggie Williams was on hand.

Still, even Williams couldn’t deny a Dartmouth affinity with the Eagles: “Their green, it’s the closest to Dartmouth’s color,” he said. “If I had to choose a team, I’d choose the Eagles, because they were so overpowering of San Francisco.”

Downey was the Dartmouth honoree at the event held at the Marriott Marquis in New York’s Times Square.

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Speaking of wealth, under Buddy Teevens the Dartmouth program regularly brings in guests to speak to Big Green players about opportunities after graduation and that was the case again this week:

Thank you to Mike Triplett ‘96 for speaking to our players last night about opportunities in software investment!#TheWoods pic.twitter.com/pOEIAu9kHe

— Dartmouth Football (@DartmouthFTBL) February 3, 2023

Triplett was a 5-foot-11, 180-pound tailback from Wichita, Kan.. A cum laude Dartmouth economics major, today he's a managing director at Insight Partners, a New York City-based venture capital and private equity firm. (LINK)

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The UniWatch site has a story posted HERE under the headline Let’s Look at a 100-Year-Old College Football Game Scorecard that details the game program for Dartmouth's 32-9 win over Harvard in 1925. That Big Green team finished 8-0 and was recognized as a national champions

The details and photos reproduced from the program include a "Summary of the Most Important Penalties" page. Several of the penalties that might catch your attention:

• Slugging – Half distance to goal and disqualification
• Leaving field during one minute intermission – 15 yards

• Man going on field without permission – 15 yards

• Pushing, pulling, interlocked interference, etc. – 15 yards

And my person favorite:
• Crawling – 5 yards

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The Senior Bowl will be televised today at 2:30 p.m. on the NFL Network. Tune in to check on Princeton wide receiver Andrei Iosivas, who will play for the "American" team. Iosivas, who will attend the NFL Combine, chose between Princeton and . . . Dartmouth.

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EXTRA POINT
This was taken at 6:45 this morning. Note the horizontal line under the word OUT. Yeah, that means it was 20.7 below zero and we're not talking wind chill. The sun indicates we're headed for a clear day.

We had colder days when we lived on the shoulder of Moose Mountain but not much colder, not very often and not recently.

Atop New Hampshire's Mount Washington last night the thermometer got to 46 below zero and the wind chill to 108-below, thought to be the coldest ever recorded in the United States. (LINK)