Dartmouth used to include future schedules in its media guide and online. Unfortunately, that's not the case anymore.
While you don't need an Ivy League degree to figure out the Ancient Eight portion of future schedules – just work back 10 weeks from Thanksgiving and insert the Ivy games in the usual order – working up the teams for the out-of-conference portion is trickier. Here's what we know so far about who the Big Green will be playing in nonconference games in coming seasons:
2024
Fordham
at Merrimack
Central Connecticut
2025
at Fordham
New Hampshire
TBA
2026
TBA across the board
2027
at New Hampshire
at Central Connecticut
TBA
2028
New Hampshire
TBA
TBA
Expect a return game to Lehigh somewhere along the way. Apart from that, your guess is as good as mine although I hope there are more Patriot League games.
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Speaking of Lehigh and Fordham, while we weren't looking the Patriot League made a subtle change in its scholarship rules. Starting this year, the league will allow a full 63 schollies for the first time. Also, the 90-player roster limit has been eliminated.
Green Alert Take: Colgate's win over Dartmouth last fall, Lafayette's emergence in 2023 and the continued excellence of Holy Cross suggest the Patriot League may finally be turning the corner it couldn't even see in the first years since introducing football scholarships everywhere but at Georgetown a decade ago.
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And now for today's visit to the record books . . .
The Ivy League Rookie of the Year award was introduced in 1981. Since then, Dartmouth has had eight players so honored.:
1981 – Quarterback Mike Caraviello
1986 – Wide receiver Craig Morton
1990 – Quarterback Matt Brzica
1991 – Quarterback Jay Fiedler
2001 – Kick returner/corner Steve Jensen
2002 – Linebacker Josh Dooley
2012 – Quarterback Dalyn Williams
2016 – Wide receiver Hunter Hagdorn
Rookies of the Year By School
8 – Dartmouth
7 – Harvard
6 – Penn
6 – Yale
5 – Columbia
5 – Cornell
3 – Brown
2 – Princeton
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EXTRA POINT
When I picked up the mail a couple of days ago there was a returned letter in our box. It was a Christmas card we'd sent to an old friend on Dec. 12. In case you are counting, the card took 91 days to make it back to our box.
In addition to the familiar yellow "return to sender" sticker on the envelope someone had printed vertically along the left side of the envelope, "MOVED." Scribbled hastily above that, also in pink in larger print were the letters, "WTF."
Seriously?
