The Fordham football team may be struggling, but kudos to the sports information office down there for getting game notes out during the week:
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| Click HERE for the Fordham game notes. |
Saturday's game will be played at Moglia Stadium and if the name sounds familiar it should. The former "Campus Stadium" was renamed in honor of the former Dartmouth linebacker coach in 2023 (although obviously not for his time in Hanover ;-). This is from the 1981 Dartmouth media guide. (Remember those things?)
Learn more about the former Dartmouth linebacker coach who became a business mogul in his Hall of Honor bio on the Fordham website HERE.
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For what it's worth, here are the FanDuel odds for this week's games featuring Ivy League teams:
Dartmouth is a 14½ point road favorite over Fordham
Penn is a 7½ point road favorite at Columbia
Brown is a 1½ point home favorite over Princeton
Harvard is a 28½ point home favorite over Merrimack
Yale is a 22½ point home favorite over Stonehill
Cornell is a 2½ point home favorite over Bucknell
Editor's note: Those odds are presented as a way of offering a look at how so-called experts see the games. If you want to know why it's absurd to do anything with those odds other than discuss them, check out the Fearful Forecast later today on BGA Overtime to see how poorly one longtime Ivy watcher – that would be me – is doing with his picks this fall. ;-)
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The NJ.com site has a story headlined N.J. football midseason awards: Strong efforts highlight first half, with more to come that includes this, which Dartmouth followers will appreciate (LINK):
Jack Cannon, Holmdel, Sr., QB/DB
What more can be said about Cannon? The Dartmouth commit has not slowed down one bit this fall to the tune of 1,412 passing yards, 978 rushing yards, and 33 total touchdowns. His performance game in and game out can best be described as heroic, as he's accounted for a freakish 98 percent of Holmdel's total offensive yardage. This is nothing new for Cannon - he's been doing this for three years. It wouldn't be a surprise though to see him post career-high numbers in his senior year, and he's on track for it. He's also one of the most impactful players in the state. Holmdel would be a fraction of the team it is now without him.
Green Alert Take: I have to chuckle thinking about all the emails I would get if a Big Green subscriber who passed away a few years ago was still with us. He read something similar about another incoming quarterback years ago and was absolutely certain he was going to be the next Jay Fiedler. Turns out, he played more like Arthur Fiedler, but to the end of his career the alum thought he should be the starter. Time will tell how Jack Cannon and the rest of the class will perform when they get here but it's clear the quarterback from New Jersey is having a heckuva year.
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Neither Chris Corbo nor Delby Lemieux got a mention this week but two players Dartmouth has seen this fall did show up in an FCS Football Central story headlined FCS Football: 2026 NFL Draft Stock Watch (Week 7). From that story (LINK):
Ezekiel Larry | EDGE | Yale
Week 7 Stats: Three tackles, three solo, two for loss, two sacks, one forced fumble, 23.1% pass rush win rate, 11.5% pressure rate
Larry had his best performance against a Dartmouth offense that ranked 16th in EPA per play and fifth in plays with pressure allowed percentage. Larry was most impactful in the passing game, winning in a multitude of ways. He won with power, with speed, and with good hand fighting. He was consistently impactful on earlier downs, and his motor to close on the quarterback was most impressive. Despite the loss, Larry did his part as a pass rusher.
Elijah Howard | RB | Central Connecticut State
Week 7 Stats: 16 carries, 128 yards rushing, one rushing TD, 4.5 yards after contact, four receptions, 22 yards receiving.
Larry's performance against Dartmouth is included in the writeup. Howard had 14 carries for 69 yards and one touchdown rushing against the Big Green, and four receptions for 40 yards.
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The National Athletic Trainers Association has a paper in its online publication headlined Associations of Tackling Characteristics, Player Position, and Head Contact Risk During Game Play in College Football and the authors include a few names you'll recognize:
Stephen L. Aita PhD, Emily Z. Holding PhD, Richard P. Bolander PhD, Kelsea Marshall PsyD, Curt Oberg AB, Benjamin Schuler MS, LAT, ATC, Michael Derosier MS, ATC, Eugene F. Teevens III AB, and Jonathan D. Lichtenstein PsyD, MBA
In case you skipped that part, the names that jump off the page for me belong to former Dartmouth head coach Buddy Teevens, Curt Oberg, another former Dartmouth player and special assistant to the head coach, Ben Schuler and Mike Derosier, the current and former head football trainers, and Jonathan Lichtenstein of the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Geisel School of Medicine and The Dartmouth Institute. (And brother of former Dartmouth kicker Jason Lichtenstein.) Emily Holding and Kelsea Marshall of the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock are also authors.
From the acknowledgments:
We would like to acknowledge Dino Cauteruccio Jr for data organization and logistics, Jack Moore for photography, and the multiple student-athletes who conducted the preliminary classifications of the video data. Finally, we would like to acknowledge the late Coach Buddy Teevens. Coach Teevens pioneered the no-tackle approach to football practice and continued to innovate primary prevention in concussion with the development of the mobile tackling dummy. His work in the arena of injury prevention leaves his unquestioned legacy as one of the greatest ambassadors for football and player safety. The findings and conclusions in this presentation are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of Dartmouth College Athletics, the Ivy League, or the Ivy League–Big Ten Epidemiology of Concussion Study. No external funding was received for this study.
Because the study is so dense, here's an AI generated graphic that tries to offer a general summation of the findings for the rest of us.
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EXTRA POINT
Mrs. BGA and I wanted to test the long-awaited EV charging adapter we received this week and because the Tesla chargers in West Lebanon are an earlier generation that will not work with the adapter, we headed north to St. Johnsbury, Vt., with the thought to do a quick testing charge, grab dinner and catch a movie.
The charge went perfectly, so then it was off to dinner. Because we were running a little short on time, I pulled into a KFC. Mrs. BGA is not a fan, but the KFC was the only fast food around so we didn't have much choice. It turned out to be an interesting choice.
I decided to order the chicken pot pie only to be told they were out. Mrs. BGA decided on chicken fingers, only to be told they were out. We were the only customers to "eat in" at 6:15, and in that entire time only two people picked up to-go orders. Any wonder why?
But I digress. Next we headed to the theater where, before we could get our tickets, we had to pick our seats on a touch screen near the register. After paying for the tickets, Mrs. BGA headed to the rest room and I went into the theater, which had rows of six seats on either side of a center aisle.
I had the ticket receipt for our seats, but I never looked at it. I just went halfway down the aisle and grabbed a couple of seats on the left side.
When Mrs. BGA joined me, she said, "These are not our seats."
I wasn't worried.
We were the only people in the theater. For the entire movie.
Oh, and the movie was Roofman, where Channing Tatum plays a real-life robber who lived out of site in a Toys R Us for months. It's a harmless and mildly entertaining movie. Find the trailer HERE.