Monday, November 04, 2024

That's A Wrap

The Dartmouth has a story about the Big Green's game against Harvard HERE.

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The Harvard Crimson writes about Saturday's must-have win over Dartmouth HERE.

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The local Valley News only picked up the AP writeup HERE.

Green Alert Take: Don't blame the Dartmouth beat writer, who has been doing a fine job covering the Big Green. Newspapers being what newspaper are now, he's as busy as the proverbial "one-armed paper hanger" and had to cover a high school state championship instead. It's yet another reminder of why I'm so glad my newspaper days are behind me.

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Be sure to check out BGA Overtime tonight for analysis and notes coming out of the Harvard game. And come back tomorrow for what figures to be an interesting conversation between The Optimist and The Pessimist.

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Watch Owen Zalc's 54-yard field goal for Dartmouth Saturday afternoon and then check out what I discovered. (This video may fool you at first, but the kick is going away from the camera ;-)

Here's what I found. Not only was Zalc's field goal at Dartmouth record, topping the 52-yarder booted by Tyler Lavin against Colgate in 2003, but it tied the Ivy League record of 54 yards which had been done five times previously:*

Charlie Gogolak, Princeton  vs. Cornell , Oct. 9, 1965
John Killian, Cornell  vs. Columbia, Nov. 1, 1969
Tom Mazzetti, Penn vs. Leigh, sept. 24, 1976
Tom Mazzetti, Penn vs. Lafayette , Oct. 16, 1976
Tom Mante, Yale vs. Columbia, Sept. 26, 2009

* Several Ivy League field goals from the early 20th century were listed as being longer but research conducted by former Dartmouth sports information director Kathy Slattery Phillips after Lavin's 52-yard boot in 2003 led to the determination that they were in fact not as long as recorded.

Here's something else. With his two field goals against Harvard, Zalc has continued to obliterate another Ivy League record. Per the Ivy League record book, coming into this season the conference record for consecutive games with a field goal was 11, set by Steve Morgan of Brown over the 2004-05 seasons.

Zalc now has field goals in 16 consecutive games. He did not make one in his first collegiate game at New Hampshire a year ago in swirling post-hurricane winds but put one through the uprights in the other nine games. He's also kicked at least one in every game this fall.

Zalc heads into this week's game at Princeton having made 12-of-15 attempts in his sophomore season and 29-of-36 in his career. The Dartmouth record for field goals in a career is 38, held by Dave Regula '98 in 53 attempts. 

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Now for the standings and before you get annoyed about Harvard being listed first, I was taught the order to use in the case of ties is league record, overall record then most recent results:

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Dartmouth-Harvard highlights from the ESPN+ broadcast:


Green Alert Take: OK, call me stupid. Watching on-site Saturday I thought the scoreboard was malfunctioning during the Harvard field goal attempt. It wasn't until watching this that it occurred to me the yellow stripes were intended to confuse the kicker.

Green Alert Take II: That's creative but Columbia did the Big Green one better against Yale. Check out the story HERE.

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Harvard has what it terms a "creative video recap" from field level HERE. (Watch to the end to see a good view of the Hail Mary attempt.)

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EXTRA POINT
Our shadows were long when Mrs. BGA, Griff the Wonder Dog and I reached the peak of Wrights Mountain yesterday afternoon.


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