Dartmouth's game notes for tomorrow have been posted HERE.
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The local Valley News has a Dartmouth-Brown preview HERE.
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The Boston Globe's preview of The Game includes this (LINK):
At the Sunday team meeting after Harvard’s football varsity clinched at least a share of the Ivy League crown with a last-second field goal at Pennsylvania last weekend, Andrew Aurich posed a question.
If your goal before the season was to share the title with Dartmouth, raise your hand. “Nobody raised their hand,” the first-year coach said. “I said, OK, me too.”
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Roar Lions Ivy League Power Ranking (LINK)
1 Harvard
2 Dartmouth
3 Columbia
4 Yale
5 Cornell
6 Penn
7 Brown
8 Princeton
Green Alert Take: Looks a lot like the Ivy League standings, which is as it should be as we approach the final game.
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| Trainer Ben Schuler, Nick Marinaro and Kyle Brown (BGA photo) |
At the conclusion of last night's final full practice of the season, offensive linemen Nick Marinaro and Kyle Brown were honored with the training staff's Hard Nose Award. A 2015 story on the Training & Conditioning website explained that the award goes to a . . . (LINK):
. . . senior who has overcome a major injury or series of injuries and has returned to have a significant impact on the field.
Along with overcoming injuries, the Hard Nose Award recipients must have followed the athletic training staff’s rehabilitation instructions. The criteria also include not disregarding or embellishing injuries and not lobbying on your own behalf or for a friend in order to influence the award’s outcome.
Asked after practice about this year's winners, Dartmouth coach Sammy McCorkle said:
"You can't say enough about Kyle Brown and 'Sauce.' When the award was created they are the kind of guys they were thinking about. The way they fought through injuries and kept battling back is a great example to our younger guys and the rest of the team about how to face adversity. Those two guys did whatever they had to do to get back on the field and this means a lot to them. You heard it in how emotional they were talking about it."
All-Time Hard Nose Winners
2024 – Nick Marinaro, Kyle Brown
2023 – Sam Koscho
2022 – Nick Howard
2021 – Donald Carty
2021 – Tanner Cross
2019 – David Chalmers
2018 – Andrew Yohe
2017 – Darius George
2016 – Flo Orimolade
2015 – Eric Wickham
2014 – AJ Dillione
2013 - Chase Womack, Elliot Kastner
2012 - Garrett Wymore
2011 - John Gallagher
2010 - Luke Hussey
2009 - Peter Pidermann
2008 - Joe Battaglia
2007 - Taylor Layman
2006 - Joe Gibalski
2005 - Charles Ganske
2004 - Derham Cato
2003 - Lyle Campbell
2002 - Bob Reeves
2001 - Matt Mercer
2000 - Dan Hutchinson
1999 - Tom Reusser
1998 - Kyle Rogers
1997 - Keith Lockwood
1996 - Jeff Schmitt
1995 - Taran Lent
1994 - Josh Bloom
1993 - Chris Umscheid
1992 - Neal Martin
1991 - Al Rosier
1990 - Tim Meier
1989 - Harris Siskind
1988 - David Gazzaniga
1987 - Lance High
1986 - John Randolph
1985 - Slade Schuster
1984 - Harry Bourque
1983 - Mark Pare
1982 - Gary Spiegelman
1981 - John Merriman
1980 - Tom Marek
1979 - John Clark
1978 - Nigel Key
1977 - Dave Casper
1976 - Jim Lucas
1975 - Dan Murphy
1974 - Brian Wroczynski
1973 - Rick Gerardi
1972 - Doug Jaeger
1971 - Brendan O’Neill, Stu Simms
1970 - Giff Foley
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EXTRA POINT
When Mrs. BGA was explaining where we live, her new friend had our house confused with another at the top of our hill. When Mrs. BGA told her we were actually the first house down the hill from that place, the woman responded, "Oh, the one with the old VW bus."
Hearing the made me smile. ;-)