On a quiet day before holiday sabbatical (see the Extra Point), here's what we know of the 2025 Dartmouth football schedule:
Sept. 20 – vs. New Hampshire
Sept. 27 – TBA
Oct. 4 – at Penn
Oct. 11 – vs. Yale
Oct. 18 – at Fordham
Oct. 25 – vs. Columbia
Nov. 1 – at Harvard
Nov. 8 – vs. Princeton
Nov. 15 – Cornell
Nov. 22 – at Brown
Green Alert Take: This is a relatively friendly Ivy League schedule with four home games compared to three on the road. Two of the road games are against teams that struggled mightily this year, finishing at the bottom of the Ivy standings (Brown and Penn). Harvard will again be a challenge, but Dartmouth always has a huge following in Cambridge and has played well at Harvard Stadium in recent years.
Green Alert Take II: If I had to make a guess for what games may move to Friday night it would be the Oct. 4 contest at Penn and/or the Nov. 8 game against Princeton in Hanover.
Green Alert Take III: As for the unannounced Sept. 27 game, your guess is as good as mine. I thought it might be Merrimack, but the Warriors have a game scheduled at Stony Brook on Sept. 17. Could the delay be Stony Brook trying to find a replacement, freeing up Merrimack? Again, your guess, but the fact that Dartmouth is playing it close to the vest less than a year out is curious.
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EXTRA POINT
About five inches of snow overnight guaranteed we're going to have a white Christmas here at our Vermont hillside.
With company in town and a full house for a few days, and then a second Christmas down near Princeton BGA is going to hibernate until the new year barring breaking news. So, happy holidays to all, and I'll see you again in 2025!
