Big Day In Big Green Land

Here is today's schedule:

Penn at Harvard, Noon

Yale at Princeton, Noon

Brown at Columbia, Noon

Cornell at Dartmouth, 1 p.m.

New Hampshire at Bryant, Noon

Central Connecticut at Duquesne, 1 p.m.

Fordham at Georgetown, 1 p.m.

For fans at today's game, it's pretty simple. The score to watch is Penn at Harvard. Should the Crimson win, both Dartmouth and Cornell will be eliminated from the Ivy League race.

If Penn beats Harvard, the winner of Dartmouth-Cornell will still have a shot. The loser will be eliminated.

With four teams still alive at the start of the day, here's a reminder of how the standings look through eight weeks, keeping mind there's still a chance for a four-way tie:

Green Alert Take: Even should Harvard win today, the Ivy League's decision to allow its teams to play in the postseason adds meaning to today's game at Buddy Teevens Stadium. With a win over Cornell, Dartmouth would remain in the conversation for an at-large bid to the tournament.

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The Cornell Sun has a look at today's game HERE.

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BGA Overtime has a preview story headlined Surging Cornell Will Challenge Big Green HERE.

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It is Senior Day in Hanover and Dartmouth is celebrating the Class of 2026:

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Centennial Celebration

It was 100 years ago this fall that Dartmouth won the college football National Championship. Here's how one expert ranked the teams:

1925 Top-10

1) Dartmouth 8-0

2) Michigan 7-1

3) Alabama 10-0

4) Pittsburgh 8-1

5) West Virginia 8-1

6) Washington 10-1-1

7) Stanford 7-2

8) Tulane 9-0-1

9) Wisconsin 6-1-1

10) Washington & Jefferson 6-2-1

From a retrospective look at the 1925 season that included these rankings (LINK):

Dartmouth was widely regarded as the mythical national champion (MNC) at the time, and if there had been an AP poll in 1925, Dartmouth would have finished ranked #1 by a landslide vote.

While there are surely those today who would debate the Big Green being crowned national champions – we are looking at you, Tuscaloosa – as David Shribman wrote in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine (LINK):

No one would have questioned the primacy of a Dartmouth team that won by an average score of 43-4; a team so dominant that, as the season progressed, it often would decline to accept rivals’ penalties; and a team that prompted the legendary Amos Alonzo Stagg, the Chicago coach who invented the quick kick, the lateral pass, and the quarterback-keeper play, to call it the greatest team he ever saw. And no one would have minimized the offensive power and defensive discipline of a team journalist Damon Runyon said was “champion of the world.”

To celebrate the centennial of Dartmouth's national championship football team, the college has produced T-shirts available for purchase:

Click HERE for ordering information.

 Find a story on the Dartmouth athletic communications site HERE.

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And finally, making its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2005, the Dartmouth women's soccer team pushed No. 5 Arkansas to the limit only to fall, 1-0, on a goal in the 60th minute. Find a story HERE.

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EXTRA POINT

I almost always bring the same thing for a pick-me-up on my daily hike. Of course, it's not quite what it used to be, although the wrapper clearly hasn't changed.