With Dartmouth's 2025 football schedule filled out with the addition of Central Connecticut, here's a look at who the rest of the Ivy League teams will be playing out-of-conference. Harvard and Penn still have opponents yet-to-be named.
Brown
Georgetown
Rhode Island
at Bryant
Columbia
at Lafayette
Georgetown
Lehigh
Cornell
at Albany
Colgate
Bucknell
Harvard
at Holy Cross
TBA
TBA
Penn
at Lehigh
Marist
TBA
Princeton
San Diego
at Lafayette
Mercer
Yale
Holy Cross
at Lehigh
Stonehill
By way of contrast, here are a few of the nonconference games being played by Patriot League teams (including new member Richmond):
Lafayette – Oregon State and Bowling Green
Richmond – North Carolina
Fordham – Boston College
Colgate – Syracuse
Bucknell – Air Force
Holy Cross – Northern Illinois
Just sayin'.
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Don Dobes, Dartmouth's defensive coordinator, was recently named the American Football Coaches Association Assistant Coach of the Year. Click through the interview below to hear how, as a student at Illinois Wesleyan, he and a teammate designed their own college course that saw them road trip to the 1979 coaches convention in San Francisco. That led to him becoming a graduate assistant for Jerry Berndt at DePauw, where his roommate would be another grad assistant. Fellow by the name of Buddy Teevens.
He talks about being linebacker coach for Berndt at Penn under defensive coordinator John Lyons, who would go on to be Dartmouth head coach. He shares stories from his coaching stops at Penn, Rice, Temple and Princeton, interrupted by a short stint at DIII Rowan, where he coached in a national championship game.
Along the way, Dobes learned an important lesson: "You're not really a coach in this profession until you get fired."
He talks about being let go at Princeton and ending up at Dartmouth the next season, seven weeks after interviewing with Teevens and being pretty sure he wasn't going to get the job.
It's well worth a listen:
Green Alert Take: I'm not sure I will do it, but if I ever choose my Mount Rushmore of Dartmouth football coaches since I first started covering the team in the Joe Yukica era, Don Dobes will be on it.
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EXTRA POINT
It makes me a little suspicious when you bring your car to the dealer for a recall at the manufacturer's expense and after doing an unsolicited "free" overall health check they tell you the car also needs new brakes. But when you bring it to a local shop to get the brakes done, the mechanic – who could have made money replacing the brakes – instead tells you they are just fine.
