Friday, November 21, 2025

A Day Away

Brown's notes for Saturday's game have been posted. Dartmouth's should go up later today.

Click HERE to view Brown's notes.
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The BGA Overtime preview of Green-Brown Tussle will go up this evening. 

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Here's what the "Big Green and Black" will be wearing at Brown:

Graphic courtesy of Dartmouth

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HERO Sports has predictions for two games with playoff implications HERE. From the posting:

Dartmouth at Brown

Dartmouth is 7-2 with two currently-ranked wins over UNH and Yale. The Big Green will have an argument for the playoffs if it wins an eighth game on Saturday. 

Prediction: Dartmouth 31-21

And . . .

Harvard 24-17

Finally, “The Game” has FCS playoff implications. 

Harvard is 6-0 in Ivy League play, while Yale is 5-1. The winner on Saturday earns the auto-bid. If Yale were to win, the Ivy League’s chances of being a multi-bid league increase with Harvard likely getting an at-large bid at 9-1. If Yale loses, it likely won’t make the playoffs at 7-3 with a head-to-head loss to Dartmouth, who could potentially hit eight wins. A 10-0 Harvard team looks to have a shot at a Top 8 seed.


Bubble teams should be rooting for Harvard.

And their prediction: Harvard 24-17. 

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CNN reporter Harry Enten, a Dartmouth grad, has a piece titled The nerds will finally go to the college football playoffs HERE.

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At the conclusion of the final (?) practice of the fall yesterday, head football trainer Ben Schuler announced that Zyion Freer-Brown, a 6-foot-1, 240-pound senior linebacker from Lorain, Ohio, has been chosen the 2025 winner of the Hard-Nose Award.

From the description of the honor Freer-Brown won:

"Chosen by the Athletic Training Staff, the recipient of this award that has fought through hardship the right way in conjunction with the Athletic Trainers and contributed to the team!"

Freer-Brown has overcome a heart issue, a broken ankle, a foot injury and AC joints problems to lead the Big Green in tackles this fall with 75.

All-Time Hard-Nose winners: 

2025 – Zyion Freer-Brown
2024 – Nick Marinaro, Kyle Brown

2023 – Sam Koscho

2022 – Nick Howard

2021 – Donald Carty

2021 – Tanner Cross

2019 – David Chalmers

2018 – Andrew Yohe

2017 – Darius George

2016 – Flo Orimolade

2015 – Eric Wickham

2014 – AJ Dillione

2013 - Chase Womack, Elliot Kastner

2012 - Garrett Wymore

2011 - John Gallagher

2010 - Luke Hussey

2009 - Peter Pidermann

2008 - Joe Battaglia

2007 - Taylor Layman

2006 - Joe Gibalski

2005 - Charles Ganske

2004 - Derham Cato

2003 - Lyle Campbell

2002 - Bob Reeves

2001 - Matt Mercer

2000 - Dan Hutchinson

1999 - Tom Reusser

1998 - Kyle Rogers

1997 - Keith Lockwood

1996 - Jeff Schmitt

1995 - Taran Lent

1994 - Josh Bloom

1993 - Chris Umscheid

1992 - Neal Martin

1991 - Al Rosier

1990 - Tim Meier

1989 - Harris Siskind

1988 - David Gazzaniga

1987 - Lance High

1986 - John Randolph

1985 - Slade Schuster

1984 - Harry Bourque

1983 - Mark Pare

1982 - Gary Spiegelman

1981 - John Merriman

1980 - Tom Marek

1979 - John Clark

1978 - Nigel Key

1977 - Dave Casper

1976 - Jim Lucas

1975 - Dan Murphy

1974 - Brian Wroczynski

1973 - Rick Gerardi

1972 - Doug Jaeger

1971 - Brendan O’Neill, Stu Simms

1970 - Giff Foley


Zyion Freer-Brown shares the moment with his "brothers" after winning the award.

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EXTRA POINT

I do not have Sirius radio in my car, but maybe once a year the service goes live for several weeks to try to tease me into subscribing. Good luck with that.


I hit the Sirius button yesterday to see if there was an ongoing trial ahead of tomorrow's long drive to Providence. There wasn't. Instead, the service was running an ad bragging that if you take out a subscription you can get "ad-free music channels." I had to laugh.


Maybe music channels are "ad-free," but I'm here to tell you the sports channels weren't during the trials I've had. Ten minutes of someone talking about a "nasal irrigation system" was enough to turn me off the radio – and probably Sirius forever. Ewww.

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