Because I hadn't looked over the Dartmouth Football Timeline in a bit I hadn't seen the last few updates on it. The guess here is most of you haven't seem them either.
To that end, here's a copy of the football program's Timeline starting in 2005, the inaugural year of Big Green Alert. Find the full timeline dating back to 1867 HERE.
2005
Buddy Teevens, the Ivy League’s player-of-the-year in 1978 and Dartmouth’s head coach from 1987-91, returns to the helm of Big Green football. Dartmouth wins its opening game against Colgate but then struggles through an injury-plagued campaign.
2006-09
FieldTurf replaces grass on Memorial Field for the 2006 season. The East Stands are reduced in size to accommodate the Floren Varsity House (opened during the 2007 season) that includes new offices, dressing and conditioning facilities for Dartmouth’s football team.
2010
The Big Green end 13 years of frustration by posting a winning season with a 6-4 overall record, and junior Nick Schwieger leads the Ivy League in rushing for a second straight year, earning a share of the Bushnell Cup. Return man Shawn Abuhoff earns All-America honors after leading the country with three touchdowns on punt returns.
2011
Thanks to winning four of their final five games, the Big Green vault into a four-way tie for second place with a 4-3 record, its best league mark and finish in the standings in eight years. Nick Schwieger breaks the school career rushing record with his second straight 1,000-yard campaign, earning All-America third-team honors from the AP.
2012
Dalyn Williams becomes the seventh player in Big Green history — but first in 10 years — to be chosen as the Ivy League Rookie of the Year, more than any other school in the conference.
2013
Dartmouth led the Ivy League in rushing offense and scoring defense in posting its best league record in 16 years at 5-2, just one game behind co-champions Harvard and Princeton. The two losses come in a four-overtime game at Penn and at Harvard on a last-minute field goal, but the Big Green denied Princeton an outright title by defeating the 19th-ranked Tigers in the season finale, 28-24.
2014
With 10 players earning a spot on the All-Ivy First Team (just the sixth team in conference history in double figures), Dartmouth finished the season 8-2 overall and 6-1 in the league standings to place second, its best finish since putting up identical records in 1997.
2015
For the first time in 19 years, Dartmouth is the Ivy League champion, sharing the title with Penn and Harvard with identical 6-1 records. Only a one-point, last-minute loss at 15th-ranked Harvard kept the Big Green from a perfect 10-0 season. In the final polls, Dartmouth was ranked 23rd.
2016
Dartmouth opens the season by beating 22nd-ranked New Hampshire, 22-21, ending a 40-year drought against the Big Green’s in-state rival.
2017
Dartmouth rallies from being down 21-0 to defeat eventual league champion Yale on homecoming, 28-27, the largest deficit overcome in a victory in program history. Only a pair of losses by a combined eight points deny the Big Green at least a share of the conference crown.
2018
The Big Green post perhaps their best season without a league title to show for it, finishing the season ranked 15th by the AFCA and 18th by STATS with a 9-1 record. In a clash of undefeated teams at Princeton, Dartmouth comes up short in a defensive struggle, 14-9, for its only defeat of the year. CB Isiah Swann leads the nation in interceptions and is a consensus first-team All-American to earn the Bushnell Cup, while OL Matt Kaskey and DL Rocco Di Leo also garner All-America honors.
2019
Dartmouth wins its first eight games, the last of which is a 27-10 victory over undefeated Princeton at Yankee Stadium to avenge the loss from the previous year en route to a 9-1 season and a share of its league-record 19th conference crown. CB Isaiah Swann earns AP All-America First Team honors for the second straight year, and LB Jack Traynor takes home the Bushnell Cup.
2021
It’s back-to-back titles for the Big Green for the first time since 1990-92 as Dartmouth posts its third straight 6-1 campaign and 9-1 mark overall. Derek Kyler and Nick Howard become the first teammates to be named All-Ivy at quarterback in the same season while linebacker Jalen Mackie and offensive lineman Jake Guidone earn All-America third-team honors. And with victories against the three non-conference opponents, the Big Green run their win streak outside of conference to a program-record 19 games.
2022
The Big Green open the season with a 35-13 win to make it an even 20 straight wins against non-conference foes before an overtime road loss ends the historical streak. A 27-24 road win at Columbia avenges the only loss from the previous season.
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EXTRA POINT
Thanksgiving is tough on turkeys. So is late winter, as this shot of the birds picking through the snow in our side yard a couple of mornings ago while the white stuff starts to cover their feathers illustrates:
Thanksgiving is tough on turkeys. So is late winter, as this shot of the birds picking through the snow in our side yard a couple of mornings ago while the white stuff starts to cover their feathers illustrates:
