With Sammy McCorkle heading up the Dartmouth football program for the 2023 season it's a good time to see the Big Green's interim coach in his natural environment: on the field. Here he is in a mic'd up video segments from 2017 and 2015:
Gesine met Ray Prado, an artist and photographer, at a meeting for a film her sister was making. They started dating, and, on a lark, Ray suggested they go to a football game at Dartmouth College, his alma mater.“He was trying to make an impression,” she says. “He thought Dartmouth would make the impression. But it was Vermont.”When they drove over the Connecticut River from Hanover, N.H., to Norwich, Vt., something happened. Maybe it was the air, the light, the shimmering trees. Maybe it was being so close to the King Arthur’s flour mill that would produce her staple. The mountains reminded her of those in Bavaria, where her mother grew up, and the Blue Ridge Mountains she visited while growing up in Virginia.
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The Dartmouth has a story about former Big Green defensive back Ahmir Braxton HERE and a local Colorado TV station has a report HERE. Braxton is no longer listed on the Dartmouth roster.
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Week One Dartmouth opponent New Hampshire has two members of the Athlon preseason All-America first team. Speedster Dylan Laube was chosen as the all-purpose back and Josiah Silver was selected on the defensive line. (LINK)
The 6-foot-2, 236-pound Silver is ranked by HERO as the No. 2 defensive lineman in the nation with 6-1, 254 teammate Dylan Ruiz, who sets up on the other side from Silver, ranked No. 10.
Also high on HERO's list are Harvard's 6-2, 305 Thor Griffith, ranked the fourth-best defensive lineman in the country and Yale's Clay Patterson, who came in at 27. (LINK)
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He walked on at Wisconsin but in his only spring football practices with the Badgers quarterback Marshall Howe opened eyes. Offered a scholarship after a strong spring, he entered the portal. His next stop? New Haven as a transfer to Yale. (LINK)
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31. Hanover, New Hampshire• Largest college: Dartmouth College• Pop. enrolled in college: 53.5% – #16 highest on list• Bars, breweries, bowling alleys, and food trucks: 14.3 per 100,000 residents – #30 most on list• Total population: 8,813 – #35 largest on listHanover is a picturesque New England town with a strong emphasis on education. The town provides a quaint downtown area, outdoor recreational opportunities, and a tight-knit community known for its intellectual pursuits and cultural events. The town’s Baker-Berry Library, modeled after Independence Hall in Philadelphia, houses 2.5 million books, including 17th-century editions of the works of William Shakespeare.
Love the bit about "14.3 per 100,000." It might hold water if there were 100,000 people around here. ;-)
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EXTRA POINT
We picked up the '84 VW Westfalia poptop camper yesterday from the "bus whisperer" and it's running like a charm with the exception of a grinding sound we were warned about that will go away with a few more miles. At least that's what we were told before we even paid the bill!
In the fall of 2020 we drove the ancient VW to Gunnison, Colo., to visit That Certain Dartmouth '14 at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. She's now at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah and we are driving out there starting in the wee hours of Monday morning. It's a three-week trip and no, we won't be taking the VW bus this time.
The plan as we speak is for BGA Daily to continue during the trip as long as we have internet capability. It may (read: will be) more abbreviated and challenging to pull together, but the hope is for us to continue meeting this way each day. We'll see.
