Dartmouth coach Sammy McCorkle looks back at Princeton and ahead to Cornell in this quick video posted by the athletic communications office:
Coach McCorkle breaks down the matchup against a surging Cornell squad and what Senior Day means to this team.💚 #GoBigGreen | #TheWoods pic.twitter.com/U5Vo0WzW44
— Dartmouth Football (@DartmouthFTBL) November 13, 2025
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The Dartmouth has a story headlined Football hopes to keep momentum alive against red-hot Cornell University this Saturday that includes this from running back DJ Crowther (LINK):
“It’s definitely personal. We didn’t forget what happened last year, that long bus ride home, so we’re definitely gonna have that in the back of our minds, preparing each day this week … We just have to go out there and get that W.”
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As it turns out, there will be a little extra motivation on the other side of the field as well. From a story out of Ithaca about a 6-foot-3, 280-pound defensive end (LINK):
Maxwell Van Fleet will have 35 friends, family members and former coaches watching him play at Dartmouth this Saturday. The defensive tackle from Concord, New Hampshire, will be playing an hour from home, in front of everyone who watched him grow up.
There's just one problem: Dartmouth never recruited him.
"I didn't get recruited by Dartmouth," Van Fleet said. "Not that I would have wanted to go there, but it's a little chip on my shoulder. I'm a hometown kid, and I'm gonna show up there, I'm gonna smack some heads and wear that chip on my shoulder."
Van Fleet, who played two seasons at Concord High School before finishing up at St. Paul's, has 26 tackles this fall with two sacks, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery.
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FanDuel has Dartmouth as a 10½ -point favorite over Cornell. In other Ivy League games:
• Harvard is favored by 23½ points at home over Penn.
• Yale is a 10½ -point favorite at Princeton.
• Brown is a 3½ -point favorite at Columbia.
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Pro Football Focus lists its highest-graded FCS teams after Week 11 in various categories and Dartmouth makes the top-10 cut in one. Here are the Ivy teams that appear in the rankings (LINK):
Tackling
1. Harvard – 92.7
2. Penn – 91.9
3. Presbyterian – 91.7
4. Bryant – 91.5
5. Dartmouth – 90.8
6. Cal Poly – 90.6
t7. South Dakota – 90.2
t7. Lamar – 90.2
9. Dayton – 90.1
10. William & Mary – 90.0
Offense
6. Harvard – 85.7
Passing
3. Harvard – 91.9
Pass-Blocking
6. Penn – 82.5
Run-Blocking
1. Yale – 76.4
8. Princeton – 67.9
Defense
5. Harvard – 94.0
Coverage
t1. Harvard – 93.3
Special Teams
t5. Yale – 90.0
EXTRA POINT
This is the fifth football season since we moved to our Vermont hillside home, and in all the hundreds of drives I've made down I-91 to Hanover to cover practice or games, I never had never run into a traffic jam until yesterday afternoon.
For at least three or four miles the traffic never completely stopped, but it was "slow-and-go." I had a pretty good idea where the holdup was, but was floored when I got closer and saw the reason for the backup.
For the past several years there has been “rockfall remediation” taking place at a cliff on the west side of the highway. They actually had a detour off the highway for much of the summer of 2024 and again for a bit this summer. One lane of the highway has been closed for much of the past couple of years as the work continued.
Yesterday they brought in the heavy artillery and the backup was entirely because of lookie-loos checking out how wire mesh was being installed on the rock face. At least the slowdown gave me time to document what was happening:
If you look closely, you an see workers hanging off the rock wall.
