Largely on the strength of his 75-yard interception return for a touchdown, Dartmouth's Tyson Grimm has been named the Ivy League's defensive player of the week while teammate No'Koi Maddox was named special teams player of the week for his blocked punt/touchdown return and fumble recovery.
Big Green quarterback Grayson Saunier was named to the Ivy League's weekly honor roll.
Dartmouth has a story HERE, and the Ivy League's listing of honorees for the week across all sports is found HERE.
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For a little more background on Harvard, check out Dick Friedman's Harvard Magazine story headlined Harvard Football: Harvard 35, Princeton 14; Still undefeated after subduing the Tigers, the Crimson await Dartmouth. (LINK)
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Here is something we never had reason to pay attention to until this fall.
HERO Sports has worked up how it thinks the FCS playoff bracket might look if the season ended today. Per HERO's thinking, Harvard would be the 12 seed and open against Drake, with the winner going on to face No. 5 Montana State.
Dartmouth would be the fourth "bubble" team left out.
Teams in the Northeast who would make the HERO cut would be Lehigh (8th seed), Monmouth (9th), Harvard (12th), Rhode Island (13th) and Villanova (15th).
Rhode Island and Villanova would make the field as at-large teams.
Find the full HERO FCS bracket HERE.
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This interview from last spring with former Dartmouth quarterback Jackson Proctor '25 went live just yesterday. Proctor explains how he ended up at Dartmouth, speaks at length about Buddy Teevens and talks about his career as an athlete with the host, who played for Teevens at Maine.
Proctor grad transferred to Northern Illinois where earlier this fall he left the team "for undisclosed reasons."
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Dartmouth is knocking on the door of the top-25 in the latest polls.
Stats Perform | W-L | Pts | Prev | |
1 | North Dakota State (56) | 8-0 | 1,400 | 1 |
2 | Tarleton State | 9-0 | 1,318 | 3 |
3 | Montana | 8-0 | 1,280 | 4 |
T4 | Montana State | 6-2 | 1,205 | 5 |
T4 | South Dakota State | 7-1 | 1,205 | 2 |
6 | UC Davis | 6-1 | 1,086 | 6 |
7 | Lehigh | 8-0 | 1,034 | 7 |
8 | North Dakota | 6-2 | 1,022 | 8 |
9 | Tennessee Tech | 8-0 | 990 | 9 |
10 | Monmouth | 7-1 | 903 | 10 |
11 | Villanova | 6-2 | 744 | 11 |
12 | Harvard | 6-0 | 682 | 14 |
13 | Rhode Island | 7-2 | 678 | 13 |
14 | Lamar | 7-1 | 651 | 15 |
15 | Mercer | 6-1 | 583 | 17 |
16 | Southern Illinois | 5-3 | 540 | 16 |
17 | Illinois State | 5-3 | 511 | 18 |
18 | Youngstown State | 5-3 | 379 | 22 |
19 | Northern Arizona | 5-3 | 377 | 20 |
20 | Stephen F. Austin | 6-2 | 301 | 24 |
21 | Southeastern Louisiana | 6-2 | 272 | NR |
22 | Austin Peay | 5-3 | 217 | 25 |
23 | Jackson State | 5-2 | 215 | 12 |
24 | Abilene Christian | 4-4 | 192 | 23 |
25 | Presbyterian | 7-1 | 107 | 19 |
Dropped Out of Top 25: South Dakota (21) | ||||
Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): South Dakota (5-4), 99; Western Carolina (5-3), 95; Alabama State (5-2), 21; Dartmouth (5-1), 17; Lafayette (5-3), 15; Delaware State (5-3), 14; West Georgia (6-3), 14; Gardner-Webb (5-3), 12; Dayton (6-2), 8; Prairie View A&M (6-2), 4; UT Rio Grande Valley (6-2), 4; New Hampshire (5-4), 2; Sacramento State (4-4), 2 |
FCS Coaches | W-L | Pts | Prev | |
1 | North Dakota St. (25) | 8-0 | 625 | 1 |
2 | Tarleton St. | 9-0 | 598 | 3 |
3 | Montana | 8-0 | 575 | 4 |
4 | Montana St. | 6-2 | 529 | 5 |
5 | South Dakota St. | 7-1 | 525 | 2 |
6 | UC Davis | 6-1 | 495 | 6 |
7 | Lehigh | 8-0 | 461 | 7 |
8 | Tennessee Tech | 8-0 | 433 | 8 |
9 | Monmouth | 7-1 | 423 | 9 |
10 | North Dakota | 6-2 | 401 | 10 |
11 | Villanova | 6-2 | 350 | 12 |
12 | Rhode Island | 7-2 | 340 | 13 |
13 | Mercer | 6-1 | 323 | 14 |
14 | Lamar | 7-1 | 314 | 15 |
15 | Harvard | 6-0 | 248 | 17 |
16 | Southeastern Louisiana | 6-2 | 235 | 19 |
17 | Southern Illinois | 5-3 | 224 | 18 |
18 | Illinois St. | 5-3 | 192 | 20 |
19 | Youngstown St. | 5-3 | 181 | 21 |
20 | Jackson St. | 5-2 | 126 | 11 |
21 | Northern Arizona | 5-3 | 108 | 22 |
22 | Presbyterian | 7-1 | 99 | 16 |
23 | Stephen F. Austin | 6-2 | 89 | 24 |
24 | Austin Peay | 5-3 | 78 | 23 |
25 | Abilene Christian | 4-4 | 36 | 25 |
Dropped Out: None | ||||
Others Receiving Votes: UT Rio Grande Valley, 25; Western Carolina, 21; West Georgia, 18; Dartmouth, 12; Lafayette, 12; Gardner-Webb, 10; South Dakota, 9; Sacramento St., 4; Prairie View A&M, 3; Alabama St., 2; Central Connecticut St., 1. |
EXTRA POINT
I thought tick season was over. Notice the tense. Thought, not think.
Fingers crossed this latest bugger wasn't carrying disease.