Hiatus

Greetings from somewhere down the road!

Mrs. BGA and I are taking advantage of our second (and final) year of free EV charging with a road trip to Williamsburg, the Outer Banks, Charleston and Savannah. The tentative plan is to update the site a bit as we go, but expect the posting will be sporadic between now and our return in mid-June.

Given that we'll be doing some camping along the way, I won't always have the opportunity to do my usual web surfing to find tidbits to post, but if you see something and can send it along, I'll be happy to post it.

I leave you with a picture I took on May 30 of snow that fell overnight on Mount Moosilauke. I don't think it was the six inches they got over at Mount Washington, but it makes for a nice pic above the green of our field and the sugarbush adjacent to it.

Cheers,

BW

Congrats, Jace

Ever wonder in this era of grad transfers if players actually go on to earn degrees at their next school? At least when it comes to former Dartmouth tight end Jace Henry '24, the answer is yes.

A spring commencement release from Nevada lists the Ivy League product as collecting his degree in international affairs. Henry, who already held a mechanical engineering degree with honors from Dartmouth, was a member of the 2025 Academic All-Mountain West team last fall.

Henry came to Dartmouth as a quarterback, and went on to earn All-Ivy League honorable mention honors as a tight end. Moving on to Nevada, he was lost for the season due to injury after four games in 2024, but returned last year to win a spot on the All-Mountain West honorable mention team as a blocking tight end. Listed at 6-foot-3 and 270 pounds, he finished the season with seven catches for 43 yards, making nine starts. At the team banquet, he was named a winner of the Coaches Choice Award.

Find his Nevada bio HERE.

Henry is currently working under the aerospace department of Voyager Technologies where he "assists in the design, testing and analysis of Divert, Attitude and Control Systems using controllable solid propulsion technology for kinetic kill vehicles."

Green Alert Take: Academic All-Mountain West? Heck yeah.

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Speaking of grad transfers, it was reported here months ago that former Harvard quarterback Jaden Craig will play this fall at TCU. Now a video has gone up that shows all of his passes and runs last fall against Dartmouth. If nothing else, it's a chance to watch 8½ minutes of Dartmouth-Harvard football HERE.

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A headline on the FootballScoop site: Bill Belichick popularized game planning for "the middle 8," recent data shows it was a myth. Check out the story HERE and see if you agree or disagree.

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Earlier this month, this electronic presenting steered you to a story about how qualifying students from the tiny town of Wheelock in northern Vermont can go to Dartmouth for free. (LINK)

Now WMUR-TV in Manchester has posted an archive of retired commentator Fritz Wetherbee's stories, including one about how Dartmouth College was supposed to be established in Landaff, N.H., about 45 miles north-northeast of Hanover. If you think Hanover is in the middle of nowhere . . . .

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EXTRA POINT
It was 41.7 degrees here at our Vermont hillside home when I went downstairs this morning. Brrr. Maybe it's time to head south for a bit? Stay tuned. ;-)

This And That

It's been almost three weeks since Dartmouth wrapped up spring practice with the Green-White Game, but better late than never. The Dartmouth takes a look at the action from May 9 and includes this quote from coach Sammy McCorkle on the selection of new team captains Grayson Saunier, Harrison Keith and Joshua Johnson LINK:

“It wasn’t a surprise one bit. We’re really excited for all three of those guys. They all bring different leadership styles, different personalities, and they’re exactly what our locker room needs, what our culture needs and what our program needs.”

BGA Overtime had full coverage of the Green-White as well as spring football HERE. 

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Former offensive lineman Jake Guidone '21, who spend a grad transfer season at the University of Connecticut and then a summer with the Baltimore Ravens, is today a financial advisor, but he hasn't left football behind. He's been announced as a staff member at QB Velocity, a company founded by a former Xaverian Brothers High School teammate that uses the slogan, "Where tomorrow's top football players are made today!"

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Something I saw recently on the web regarding Jay Fielder had me thinking about about an anecdote NJ.com sportswriter Steve Politi reported in a 2013 column from the Masters.

Having spotted Arnold Palmer with his eponymous drink, Politi wrote (LINK):

"I chased Kelsey, the waitress serving Arnold Palmer yesterday, back to the bar where she was putting in another drink order.

"How did Arnie order his drink?"

"He leaned over and said, 'I'll have a Mr. Palmer.' Then he winked," Kesley said.

Here's why I thought about that:

That's former Dartmouth quarterback Jay Fiedler '94 presenting the National Football Foundation's Jay Fiedler Top Scholar Athlete award for the top scholar athlete in his Long Island county to Matt Kind earlier this month.

Green Alert Take: I wonder if Jay whispered, "It's the Mr. Fiedler Award?" ;-)

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And while we're at it . . . just because you can use a laugh:

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EXTRA POINT
Vermont is known as the nation's leading producer of maple syrup, so it should come as no surprise it's also known for its signature maple creemees. Summer being as short as it is in these parts, creemee season is serious business in the Green Mountain State.

Believe it or not, there's even a Vermont creemee passport! (LINK)

Around The NFL

No. 62 is former Dartmouth offensive lineman Delby Lemieux, here joining other Minnesota Vikings rookies at Children's Hospital in St. Paul. Find a story HERE.

Curious what the financial arrangements are for Lemieux and other undrafted free agents? Per a story carried by MSN, the Ivy League product signed an $82,500 guaranteed contract, with a $7,500 bonus. Should he stick with the team his three-year UDFA deal would be worth $3,107,500. 

Find the Big Green graduate's Vikings bio HERE.

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Former Dartmouth defensive back Tyron Herring '23 signed this week with the Cleveland Browns. An undrafted free agent after playing two season as a grad transfer at  Delaware, Herring had previously been a practice squad member of the Green Bay Packers and later signed with the New England Patriots. (LINK)

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Still another onetime Big Green standout is opening eyes in the NFL after a grad transfer year at Duke. Here's Tampa Bay Buccaneers General Manager Jason Licht as quoted in a story headlined Buccaneers' potential Calijah Kancey replacement could be right under their nose (LINK):

"Josiah Green, I was going to bring up. Very good athlete from Duke; defensive tackle. (He was at) Dartmouth before that making a lot of plays."

The story wraps up this way:

(J)ust how much Green comes along, in (concert) with how healthy and effective Kancey is over the next two years, may be key factors in the former first-rounder's long-term future in Tampa Bay. Ideally, Kancey rights the ship and Green also makes his mark and carves out a role.

For the time being, though, Kancey is a question mark and Green is a UDFA catching plenty of attention.

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Sticking in Florida, the news was unfortunate earlier this month for former Big Green corner Isaiah Johnson '22, who tore his ACL last December while practicing with the Miami Dolphins. Johnson, who spent two seasons as a grad transfer at Syracuse, has been waived by the NFL team for a "failed physical." From the story (LINK):

Johnson has appeared in four career games with Miami (2025), recording three special teams tackles. He entered the NFL as an undrafted college free agent with the Dolphins in 2024 and spent two seasons on the practice squad (2024-25). He played his final two collegiate seasons at Syracuse (2022-23), where he appeared in 25 games with 19 starts and totaled 115 tackles (74 solo), two interceptions, nine passes defensed and one forced fumble. He transferred to Syracuse from Dartmouth (2018-21), where he totaled 55 tackles (38 solo), one interception returned for a touchdown and seven passes defensed.

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The 7220sports.com website out of Wyoming has a piece about current grad transfer defensive end Teddy Gianaris under the headline, Welcome To Wyoming Football: Thaddeus Gianaris.  Here's what Wyoming head coach Jay Sawvel had to say in the story (LINK):

Thaddeus is a unique guy. First of all, he's an astronomy major at Dartmouth and an Ivy League grad. So when you say smart guy, yes, he's uber-smart. Thaddeus has a tremendous motor and works extremely hard. We're going to be really happy that Thaddeus is in the program this year. I think there's a lot of traits that Larry Wilson had a year ago, playing for us at defensive end. Thaddeus has many of those same traits, but he's probably a better overall athlete, so that translates really well. And, look, Thaddeus was a good player in the Ivy League, you know? I mean, when you watch these transfer type things and stuff like that, like, Ivy League football is pretty good."

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EXTRA POINT
I found myself thinking about the Julia Roberts movie Erin Brokovich while I was reading a New York Times story about a mom in Montana trying to stop development of a giant AI data center. If you want to know just how large those data centers can be, this line from the third paragraph of the story puts it in perspective:

The development, part of a nationwide boom in facilities that can power artificial intelligence, would be the size of about 3,800 football fields.

And that's not a typo. Take out the end zones and you could fit almost 4,500 football fields in the data center's proposed footprint.

 

Welcome To List Season

Listening to a podcast during my hike late yesterday afternoon I had to laugh when I heard a college football commentator refer to this as "list season."

Without any real news to report he was about to manufacture some by creating a list of top players at the school he covers.

I can relate.

Welcome to the latest BGA "list season" entry, again courtesy of the hard work done by former Dartmouth SID Rick Bender, who built a spreadsheet that includes individual rushing totals for every game since 1980, and most games between 1970-80.

From Rick's hard work, here is every 50-yard run by a Dartmouth player since 1980 in descending order.

Long	Name	Opponent	Date
97	David Clark	Princeton	Nov.  19, 1988
97	David Clark	Harvard	Oct. 15, 1988
82	Rashaad Cooper	Harvard	Oct. 27, 2018
79	Shon Page	Harvard	Oct. 27, 1990
78	Jackson Proctor	Brown	Nov. 18, 2023
75	Nick Howard	Cornell	Nov. 13, 2021
75	Jackson Proctor	Brown	Nov. 23, 2024
70	Kyle Bramble	Brown	Nov. 16, 2013
69	Jake Pallotta	Columbia	Oct. 25, 2019
68	Q Jones	Sacred Heart	Sept. 24, 2022
67	DJ Crowther	Cornell	Nov. 15, 2025
66	Nick Schwieger	Columbia	Oct. 24, 2009
66	Caylin Parker	Yale	Oct. 5, 2018
65	Nick Schwieger	Cornell	Nov. 5, 2011
65	Keegan McHugh	Brown	Nov. 20, 2021
64	Ryder Stone	New Hampshire	Sept. 17, 2016
64	Jackson Proctor	Brown	Nov.  19, 2022
63	Ryder Stone	Brown	Nov. 15, 2014
63	Shon Page	Lehigh	Sept. 22, 1990
62	Ryder Stone	Sacred Heart	Sept. 26, 2015
62	Greg Smithq	Holy Cross	Oct. 12, 1996
62	Drew Estrada	Jacksonville	Sept. 21, 2019
61	Brian Grove	Brown	Nov. 14, 2015
61	Brian Grove	Princeton	Nov. 22, 2014
60	Chad Gaudet	Harvard	Oct. 30, 2004
58	Dominick Pierre	Penn	Oct. 5, 2013
57	Dylan Karczewski	Yale	Oct. 14, 1995
56	Nick Schwieger	Bucknell	Sept. 18, 2010
56	Nate Servis	Columbia	Oct. 20, 2007
54	Kyle Bramble	Yale	Oct. Oct. 2015
53	Jared Gerbino	Princeton	Nov. 18, 2017
53	Nick Howard	Sacred Heart	Sept. 25, 2021
53	Peter Lavery	Columbia	Nov. 6, 1982
52	Greg Patton	Cornell	Nov. 7, 2009
52	Mark Akey	Harvard	Oct. 18, 1980
52	Russ Torres	Brown	Nov. 14, 1992
52	Aaron Pumerantz	Colgate	Sept. 16, 2000
51	Greg Patton	Cornell	Nov. 3, 2012
51	Rashaad Cooper	Georgetown	Sept. 15, 2018
51	Miles Smith	Georgetown	Sept. 15, 2018
51	Pete Oberle	New Hampshire	Oct. 9, 1993
50	Jeremiah White	Yale	Oct. 19, 1996

Rick's original spreadsheet included who won the games in which these runs took place. Interestingly, Dartmouth was 36-6 in these games, and 9-0 in games featuring a run of 69 or more yards.

Tied with three runs each of 50 or more yards? All-time Dartmouth rushing leader Nick Schwieger and quarterback Jackson Proctor. Others with two runs of 50-plus yards each: running backs David Clark, Rashaad Cooper, Shon Page, Ryder Stone, Brian Grove and Kyle Bramble, along with quarterback Nick Howard and wildcat QB Greg Patton.

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EXTRA POINT
I think my favorite movies are from the 1940s and early '50s featuring actors like Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and more. There were a lot fewer car crashes, explosions and super heroes than in today's movies, and a lot more memorable dialogue.

I mention that because Mrs. BGA and I somehow had never seen the 1953 classic Roman Holiday starring Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert until earlier this week, and silly as it was, we both thoroughly enjoyed it.