Here And There

Big help filling the page today from Dartmouth's social media efforts. Thanks!

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Offensive tackle Delby Lemieux was selected as co-winner of Dartmouth's Timothy Wright Ellis 1955 Award at the college's annual Celebration of Excellence. The award is:

 "(N)ominated and voted on by the captains of the men's teams. It is given to a member of a men's team showing the extra-curricular and scholastic drive, spirit, loyalty and amiability which made Tim such a well-known part of this community."

Lemieux shares the award with Brandon Mitchell-Day of the men's basketball team. 

The co-winner of the 2026 Timothy Wright Ellis 1955 Memorial Award is Delby Lemieux of @DartmouthFTBL!

Congratulations, Delby!#GoBigGreen | #TheWoods🌲 pic.twitter.com/Y0zLDjk4bi

— Dartmouth Athletics (@dartmouthsports) May 20, 2026

Read about the Celebration of Excellence HERE. 

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First-year running backs coach Ben Wilkerson has been selected for a Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship with the Tennessee Titans:

Blessed & Honored! #TitanUp pic.twitter.com/vpuC343uJ4

— Ben Wilkerson (@_CoachWilks) May 19, 2026

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HERO Sports takes a spring look at the South Dakota football team HERE. Why does would that show up in this electronic precinct? From the column:

The Yotes have a healthy QB competition between a veteran who knows the system, a promising young prospect, and a transfer with FCS starting experience.

That quarterback with FCS starting experience is Dartmouth grad Jackson Proctor, giving it a final shot at the FCS level after spending the preseason and appearing in one game last fall at FBS Northern Illinois. Find his Dartmouth bio HERE and his South Dakota bio HERE.

In his only appearance with NIU last fall, Proctor completed 2-of-6 passes for eight yards and ran twice for 13 yards.

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EXTRA POINT
My MacBook Air has Touch ID that allows me to sign onto the machine with my fingerprint. Being left-handed, I naturally set it up to work with the index finger of my left hand.

Yesterday I was working on a project that required me to use fast-drying super glue and for the fine details I used my left hand. You've probably already figured out where this is going.

Yup, I got glue all over the bottom of my index finger and when I went to sign onto the computer, the reader basically told me thanks, but no thanks.

It wasn't a disaster, of course, because I could just type in my password to get the Mac going again.

A visit to the Apple website informed me that I can save up to three fingerprints in the machine so in the unlikely event I ever glue up my left index finger and mix up my passwords, I'm going to enroll a finger on my right hand in the program.

It’s nice to know my biggest security vulnerability is me. And a tube of super glue.

We Know That Guy!

Former Dartmouth corner Chris Blanco '07, now an assistant general manager of the Houston Texans, has been selected to participate in the NFL Accelerator Program, an initiative created in 2022 to increase diversity in leadership roles within the league.

From Blanco's bio (LINK):

Blanco was a two-year starter at cornerback at Dartmouth College from 2003-07, where he earned his bachelor's degree in sociology. In addition to playing football for the Big Green, Blanco also was a member of the Dartmouth boxing team.

Blanco earned a doctorate degree from The University of Iowa College of Law, where he was the co-founder and co-president of the Sports Law Society and served as a recruiting assistant for the Hawkeyes football team.

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Another day with precious little news, so a little more trivia courtesy of Rick Bender, the former Dartmouth SID who built up detailed spreadsheets with all kinds of names and numbers regarding the Big Green athletic programs.

Now directing athletic communications at Williams College, Bender has no need for the Dartmouth information he compiled, so he was kind enough to pass along a variety of the football spreadsheets he so meticulously created and updated. One of those spreadsheets includes the quarter scoring totals for both Dartmouth and its opponents for every game since 1923.

Thanks to Rick, here are the highest scoring quarters for the Big Green, and against the Big Green, since the start of formal Ivy League play in 1956:

By Dartmouth First Quarter
28 – vs. Colgate, Oct, 21, 1995 (35-14 win)
By Opponent First Quarter
21 – Nine Times, last vs. New Hampshire, Sept. 22, 2007 (52-31 loss)

By Dartmouth Second Quarter
35 – vs. Brown, Oct. 21, 1972 (49-20 win)
By Opponent Second Quarter
28 – vs. New Hampshire, Sept. 22, 2001 (42-38 loss)
28 – vs. Holy Cross, Oct. 13, 2001 (49-17 loss)

By Dartmouth Third Quarter
29 – vs. Brown, Nov. 17, 2018 (49-7 win)
By Opponent Third Quarter
21 – Seven times, last vs. New Hampshire, Sept. 27, 2014 (52-19 loss)

By Dartmouth Fourth Quarter
34 – vs. Princeton, Nov, 18, 2017 (54-44 win)
By Opponent Fourth Quarter
28 – vs. New Hampshire, Sept. 27, 1986 (66-12 loss)
28 – vs. New Hampshire, Sept. 26, 1992 (45-27 loss)
28 – vs. Princeton, Nov. 23, 202 (38-30 loss)

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EXTRA POINT
This is the design on the front of a T-shirt I'm wearing today. Not to be mysterious or anything, but it looks as if I'll be getting a new shirt sometime this summer. And no, we're not selling our '84 VW camper. Stay tuned. ;-)

Looking Back

On another quiet Monday, here's a look Dartmouth's first-team, All-Ivy League selections since the league began formal play in 1956, courtesy of former Big Green SID Rick Bender. Selections from Ivy League championship teams are in green:

1956
Bob Adelizzi C
Wayne Kakela T
1957
Dave Moss E
Joe Palermo C
1958
Jake Crouthamel HB
Al Krutsch G
1959
Jake Crouthamel HB
Bill Gundy QB
1960
Hank Gerfen G
Alan Rozycki HB
1961
Bill King QB
1962
Bill Blumenschein T
Ed Boies G
Bill King QB
Don McKinnon C
Tom Spangenberg HB
1963
Scott Creelman E
Bill Curran G
Tom Spangenberg HB
1964
John McLean DB
1965
Steve Bryan OE
Tom Clarke DE
Edgar Holley LB
Wynn Mabry DB
Chuck Matuszak C
Bob O’Brien HB
Tony Yezer OG
1966
Mickey Beard QB
Bill Calhoun OE
Bill Hay K
Wynn Mabry DB
Chuck Matuszak C
Bill Sjogren OG
Pete Walton FB
1967
Norm Davis LB
Randy McElrath DE
Hank Paulson OT
Gordie Rule DB
1968
Pete Lawrence DE
1969
Joe Adams DB
Russ Adams DB
Jim Chasey QB
Pete Donovan K
John Ritchie OT
John Short HB
1970
Willie Bogan DB
Murry Bowden DB
Barry Brink DT
Jim Chasey QB
Bob Cordy OG
Bob Peters OT
1971
Tom Csatari DE
Joe Leslie OT
Jack Manning DB
Ted Perry K
Wayne Young LB
1972
Gregg Brown OE
Tom Csatari DE
Bob Funk C
Rick Klupchak HB
Robert Norton OG
Wesley Pugh DB
Steve Stetson QB
Tom Tarazevits DT
1973
Tom Csatari DE
Bob Funk C
Rick Gerardi LB
Rick Klupchak HB
Reggie Williams LB
1974
Skip Cummins LB
Reggie Williams LB
1975
Skip Cummins LB
Jud Porter OG
Reggie Williams LB
1976
Nick Lowery KSp
Jim Lucas C
Gregg Robinson DT
Pat Sullivan OT
Don Thomas OG
Harry Wilson SE
Kevin Young LB
1977
John Carney DB
Andy Ebbott OT
Nick Lowery KSp
Curt Oberg RB
Gregg Robinson DT
1978
Jeff Dufresne RB
Jeff Hickey DE
Joe Nastri LB
Chris Sawch KSp
Dave Shula SE
Buddy Teevens QB
1979
Larry Margerum P
Jerry Pierce LB
Cody Press DB
Rick Salchunas DE
1980
Jerry Pierce LB
Dave Shula SE
1981
Rick Bayless P
Rob Carroll DE
Joe Fernandes LB
Lee Sedberry DT
George Thompson OG
Charles Williams DB
1982
John Corbett P
Jack Daly WR
Dave Neslund LB
1983
Mark Pare C
1984
Scott Truitt WR
1985
Len Fontes LB
Craig Saltzgaber K
Slade Schuster OT
Scott Truitt WR
1986
Dave Gabianelli QB
Chris Matonis OG
Craig Morton WR
1987
Paul Michael LB
1988
Rob Hibbard P
Paul Michael LB
Craig Morton WR
1989
Rob Hibbard P
Tom Parker WR
1990
Pete Chapman NG
Dennis Durkin K
Chad Gallentine OG
Rich Joyce LB
Mike O’Flynn DT
Shon Page FB
Brad Preble DB
Sal Sciretto DB
1991
Mike Bobo WR
Lance Brackee OT
Dan Mulligan DT
Al Rosier TB
Greg Rush C
Sal Sciretto DB
Harry Wright LB
1992
Lance Brackee OT
Matt Brzica WR
Dennis Durkin K
Jay Fiedler QB
Andy MacDonald OT
George Neos LB
1993
Jay Fiedler QB
John Hyland WR
Andy MacDonald OT
Jim McGeehan DB
George Neos LB
1994
Brian White DB
1995
Mark Abel LB
Scott Hapgood DE
Brian Larsen OT
Zack Walz LB
1996
Mark Abel LB
Trey Bowers OT
Zach Ellis WR
Brian Larsen OT
Lloyd Lee DB
Dave Regula K
Zack Walz LB
1997
Scott Hapgood DE
Dom Lanza C
Lloyd Lee DB
Dave Regula K
Zack Walz LB
1998
Brad Verber S
1999
Caleb Moore OG
Wayne Schlobohm P
Steve Varney LB
2000
Matt Mercer LB
Caleb Moore OG
Alex Ware P
2001
Casey Cramer TE
Matt Mercer LB
Kevin Noone OG
Alex Ware P
2002
Casey Cramer TE
Kevin Noone OG
Alex Ware P
Scott Wedum FB
2003
Jay Barnard WR
Ryan Conger DE
2004
Ryan Conger DE
Anthony Gargiulo DE
Clayton Smith FS
2005
Anthony Gargiulo DE
2007
Justin Cottrell LB
2009
Nick Schwieger RB
2010
Shawn Abuhoff DB
Shawn Abuhoff RS
Charles Bay DL
Tim McManus WR
Ryan O’Neill OL
Nick Schwieger RB
2011
Shawn Abuhoff DB
Shawn Abuhoff RS
John Gallagher TE
Ryan O’Neill OL
Nick Schwieger RB
Eddie Smith DL
2012
Rob Bathe OL
Michael Reilly WR
Michael Runger LB
Garrett Waggoner DB
2013
Cohle Fowler OL
Dominick Pierre RB
Michael Runger LB
Garrett Waggoner DB
Scotty Whitmore OL
2014
Evan Chrustic DL
Troy Donahue DB
Vernon Harris DB
Ryan McManus WR
Ryan McManus RS
Will McNamara LB
Sean Ronan OL
Scotty Whitmore OL
Dalyn Williams QB
A.J. Zuttah DL
2015
David Caldwell DB
Jacob Flores OL
Cody Fulleton DL
Vernon Harris DB
Ryan McManus WR
Will McNamara LB
Folarin Orimolade LB
A.J. Zuttah DL
2016
Dave Morrison OL
Folarin Orimolade LB
2017
Matt Kaskey OL
Jack Traynor LB
2018
Phil Berton OL
Rocco Di Leo DL
Matt Kaskey OL
Patrick Kilcommons OL
Kyran McKinney-Crudden DB
Jackson Perry DL
Isiah Swann DB
Jack Traynor LB
2019
Nigel Alexnder LB
Niko Lalos DL
Jackson Perry DL
Zach Sammartino OL
Isiah Swann DB
Jack Traynor LB
2021
Jake Guidone OL
Evan Hecimovich OL
Nick Howard QB
Isaiah Johnson DB
Jalen Mackie LB
2023
Charles Looes DL
Nicholas Schwitzgebel OL
Owen Zalc PK
2024
Ejike Adele DL
Kyle Brown OL
Chris Corbo TE
Josiah Green DL
Q Jones RB
Delby Lemieux OL
Braden Mullen LB
Jordan Washington DB
Owen Zalc PK
2025
Chris Corbo TE
D.J. Crowther RB
Thaddeus Gianaris LB
Delby Lemieux OL
Dakota Quiñonez DL
Sean Williams DB

Note: Dartmouth had no first-team selections in 2006, 2008 and 2022, and there was no Ivy League football in 2020.

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EXTRA POINT
A couple signs of spring in northern New England over the weekend. One welcome. One not.

The first hummingbirds of the year arrived at the feeder outside our kitchen window. They are the welcome visitors. Unfortunately, black flies were out in force yesterday during a hike to the summit of my local trail. They are not welcome.

For those of you unfamiliar with black flies, Maine's DownEast magazine had a good look at the nasty things HERE. From that story:

Blackfly season is said to run from Mother’s Day to Father’s Day, but, in reality, blackflies are not strictly a springtime nuisance. “It depends on the species,” says Leon Tsomides, an aquatic entomologist with the Maine Bureau of Land and Water Quality. “Generally, they emerge in spring, have one generation, and are gone by July."

The black flies missed Mother's Day by a week. Here's hoping they know Father's Day is June 21.

Smooth Moves

That line about how it can be better to be an undrafted free agent rather than a last-round NFL draft pick? Apparently there's something to it.

Both of Dartmouth's undrafted free agent signees are in the news, and judging by what the stories suggest about former Big Green defensive lineman Josiah Green and former offensive line teammate Delby Lemieux, both made smart decisions on where to sign.

From the story (LINK):

Green finished 2025 with an 84th percentile pressure rate, 70th percentile pass rush win rate, 84th percentile sack rate, 69th percentile conversion rate, 15th percentile stop rate, 7th percentile tackle rate, and 5th percentile missed tackle rate.

Green Alert Take: First it was wRC+ in baseball, and now this? I'm being left behind . . .

The more understandable bottom line from the piece:

The Bucs being high on him is understandable. They don’t have a qualified fill-in who can do the things (Calijah) Kancey can as a pass rusher. But Green might be able to provide that specific skillset in a limited fashion. . . .  

Green has the juice. He’s the only player on the depth chart who really profiles as a Kancey-light. And that gives him a unique opportunity to grab the 53rd spot on the depth chart or become a key practice squad elevation throughout the year.

The athleticism is real. The archetype and pass rushing traits are just as real. Josiah Green’s path to playtime might be real as well.

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From the story (LINK):

Per Nick Baumgardner of The Athletic, Lemieux is the best UDFA fit for the Vikings’ roster: “A three-time All-Ivy League left tackle, Lemieux (6-5, 309) is a terrific athlete who moved inside to work at center for scouts during the pre-draft process. He has short arms (31 3/8 inches), but he’s a great athlete and a very intelligent lineman.”

Searching for other analysts to praise Lemieux isn’t particularly difficult. True, nobody had him (among) the draft’s big four centers — Logan Jones, Jake Slaughter, Conner Lew, and Sam Hecht — but there’s a lot to like in the former tackle who is moonlighting as a center.

And . . .

Within all of the uncertainty, the Vikings have Delby Lemieux quietly hanging out in the background. Again, he’s not a serious option to start, but he is competing to be the backup. Last year, all of LB Austin Keys, TE Ben Yurosek, G Joe Huber, WR Myles Price, DT Elijah Williams, and other UDFA talents made the final roster. Why not another for the upcoming season?

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EXTRA POINT
I have a complaint that many of you in this part of the country will disagree with, as is your right. ;-)

We had miserable weather Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning. Yesterday was gorgeous, and today looks like more of the same.

Here's my controversial opinion: if we had to endure lousy weather, I would have preferred this sunshine on Thursday and Friday and the nasty stuff this weekend.

Why? Because these are the two best days of the PGA Championship, and the weather outside is so perfect that I feel guilty sitting indoors for six hours watching golf instead of cutting the grass or trimming shrubs.

The bottom line: the forecast is interfering with my ability to be unproductive.

Schedule Musings

Odds and ends about Dartmouth's 2026 football schedule:

• With each Ivy League team playing seven conference games, teams have four conference home games one year, and three the next. Dartmouth is home for three Ivy games this year (Penn Harvard, Brown), and four on the road (Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell).

• Home-Away Ivy League schedules this fall:

• Brown 4 home, 3 away
• Columbia 4 home, 3 away
• Cornell 4 home, 3 away 
• Dartmouth 3 home, 4 away
• Harvard 2 home, four away, 1 neutral
• Penn 3 home, 4 away
• Princeton 4 home, 3 away
• Yale 3 home, 3 away, 1 neutral

• As has been the case in every even-numbered year since the Ivy League schedule was adjusted ahead of the 2018 season, the Big Green will play back-to-back road games at Princeton and Cornell before finishing the season at home against Brown.

• This was posted earlier, but here are the round-trip distances for the Big Green this fall: Lehigh 710 miles, Princeton 630, Cornell 594, Columbia 520, and Yale 378. Dartmouth will travel  1,224 miles in weeks eight and nine combined. That's a total of 2,832 miles.

• Dartmouth opens the season with a rare game on the real stuff – grass. Lehigh will be the Big Green's first game not on artificial turf since Oct. 5, 2018 at Yale. The Yale Bowl put in artificial turf before the next season.

• Only two of 10 Dartmouth opponents are on the road before facing the Big Green. All but Monmouth and Columbia are home the week before playing Dartmouth.

• Merrimack has a bye the week before playing at Dartmouth.

Here's the full list of who Big Green opponents play the week before Dartmouth plays them:

Sept. 19 at Lehigh (vs. William & Mary)
Sept. 26 Monmouth (at Albany)
Oct. 3 Penn (vs. Lehigh)
Oct. 10 at Yale (vs. Merrimack)
Oct. 17 Merrimack (bye)
Oct. 24 at Columbia (at Penn)
Oct. 31 Harvard (vs. Princeton)
Nov. 7 at Princeton (vs. Cornell)
Nov. 14 at Cornell (vs. Penn)
Nov. 21 Brown (vs. Columbia)

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Dartmouth has an offer out to a Georgia wide receiver named Folefac Wrightnick Atabonglefac. He also has offers from Princeton, Penn and Brown. (LINK)

Green Alert Take: Thank goodness for copy and paste.

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With clear skies this morning I've put a somewhat-yellowed baseball hat out on our front steps, which receive sunlight all day long. The hope is the sun will help bleach the hat. It may be beyond saving but I have another one that I left in the sun for a few weeks that actually turned out OK. Time will tell. 

Staying Home

Harlem Taylor, a 6-foot-3, 240-pound defensive lineman, posted photos last week from his Signing Day ceremony for Dartmouth football. Taylor heads north from Concord's St. Paul's School as the rare New Hampshire product to join the Big Green. He grew up in Manchester, the largest city in the state.

Taylor was included in earlier BGA recruiting lists after choosing Dartmouth over offers from Bentley, Amherst and Colby.

Editor's Note: The official Dartmouth recruiting list has not yet been released but I'm working on getting that information along with background on each incoming player. I'll turn that around as soon as I can. In the meantime, the unofficial BGA recruiting list can be found HERE, with one change: linebacker Parker Maiers flipped to Northwestern.

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Yahoo Sports has a story headlined Aaron Judge is not the only Yankees slugger making noise in the power ranking,s and you can probably guess who that other "slugger" is. That's right, it's Dartmouth graduate Ben Rice. From the story (LINK):

According to the crew over at MLB.com, they have ranked Rice as the No. 5 power hitter in their latest power rankings.

The story notes that, "Rice owned the best wRC+ in the big leagues (193) entering Wednesday night's action."

Uh, wRC+?

In case you are wondering, MLB defines those letters as being "a stat that measures a hitter's overall offensive value compared to league average. It takes all of a hitter's contributions at the plate and translates that to his impact on runs created for his team."

Green Alert Take: I give up.

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EXTRA POINT
I'm not a computer nerd but I did take Fortran in college, I've built a few very basic websites, and I like to think I'm pretty good with my Mac. That said, I had an issue with my MacBook Air recently that I was starting to think would make me glad I bought AppleCare for the machine.

Expecting to have to bring laptop all the way down to Manchester for a checkup by one of the "Geniuses" at the Apple Store and then perhaps send it out, I wrote up a detailed explanation of the issue I was having.

On a whim, I copied and pasted that information into an AI site. Within perhaps 15 seconds, the site returned a detailed explanation of what I could try to possibly fix the issue. It took me step-by-step deep into the guts of the computer and voila, it was once again working perfectly.

AI can be pretty scary but it's hard to argue with results like that. If nothing else, it saved me a long drive to Manchester.

4 C's: Captains, Corbo, Catchers And A Cleanser

Dartmouth's social media has officially introduced its 2026 football captains:

2026 Football Captains.#GoBigGreen | #TheWoods pic.twitter.com/Nfl9gYPCss

— Dartmouth Football (@DartmouthFTBL) May 13, 2026

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A scouting report branded as the "Bucs Wire," or "Vikings Wire" (and probably other "Wires") takes a look at former Dartmouth tight end Chris Corbo, now at Georgia Tech. Here's how it reads (LINK):

Chris Corbo is not going to be a major player in my early rankings, but with Georgia Tech, he has a chance to be one of the biggest risers when we come back to this group. At Dartmouth, he shone against lesser competition and showcased himself as someone who can separate himself from defenders, be a reliable blocker, and someone who can be a major asset to his quarterback. Being in the ACC will be a lot of pressure so we will know soon enough if he is a piece of coal or a diamond.

Green Alert Take: That last line is one seriously cold cliché.

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If you are buying what HERO Sports is selling, Dartmouth will be charged with slowing down three of the top 25 wide receivers in the country this fall. (LINK)

Best Returning FCS Wide Receivers
1. Marquis Buchanan, Rhode Island
2. Taco Dowler, Montana State
3. Samuel Gbatu Jr., UC Davis
4. Sam Milligan, Bucknell
5. Chedon James, Idaho State (transfer from UIW)
6. Samuel Musungu, Cornell
7. Brooks Davis, Montana
8. Nate Rembert, Jackson State
9. Lofton O’Groske, South Dakota State
10. Gavin Lochow, Dayton
11. Brady Blackburn, Harvard
12. Dylan Lord, Illinois State
13. B.J. Fleming, Tarleton State (transfer from North Dakota)
14. AJ Colombo, Western Carolina
15. Jalen Smith, Lindenwood
16. Brayden Smith, Mercer
17. Luke Mailander, Illinois State
18. Stacy Dobbins, UC Davis
19. Gavin Nelson, Monmouth
20. Tre’ Holloway, Tennessee Tech
21. Chance Peterson, North Carolina Central
22. Tyrell Pollard, Central Arkansas
23. Michael Rossin, Western Carolina
24. Jaden Robinson, Austin Peay
25. JC Roque Jr., Northern Iowa

For the record, Cornell's Samuel Musungu missed last year because of injury, but caught 83 passes for 960 yards and 10 touchdowns two years ago. Blackburn caught 38 balls for 732 yards (19.3 yards per) with five touchdowns last year. Nelson caught 30 passes for 514 yards (17.1 per) with six touchdowns last year.

With top Dartmouth pass catchers Grayson O'Bara (44 for 590 yards) and Chris Corbo (45 for 516) graduating, the leading Big Green returning receiver is Ky'Dric Fisher, who had 21 catches for 341 yards and two touchdowns last fall.

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EXTRA POINT
Bars of Ivory Soap no longer float. Sad, but true.

While Ivory is still promoted as 99.44/100 percent pure, as a result of a change in the formula in 2023 it will now sink to the bottom of your tub. Or, as I learned this morning, the bottom of your sink. Here's the explanation for the change, courtesy of Procter & Gamble (LINK):

(I)n the late 19th century, when people were still bathing in the murky waters of local rivers and streams, a soap that floated was revolutionary. Since we are now bathing in tubs/showers, a floating bar is no longer necessary.

The funny thing about that is I'm guessing I'm not the only one who stopped bathing in the "murky waters of local rivers and streams" in the 20th century, and they didn't change the formula until the 21st. ;-)

You Could See This One Coming

The Steelers Depot website (LINK) picks up on a mailbag question that appeared in The Athletic regarding the future of Pitttsburgh's NFL franchise. The writer suggests Dan Rooney '12, a former backup Dartmouth quarterback, will eventually sit atop the Steelers' organizational chart. The Depot posting includes this thought from beat writer Mike DeFabo that first appeared in The Athletic:

"Dan Rooney, the son of Art II, is seemingly the heir apparent. The 36-year-old took a leading role in two recent initiatives: the Dublin game and the draft. Both were slam-dunk successes, proving he has the right business acumen to lead. I'm more intrigued by his football background. While Art II has joked that he's not a defensive coordinator when asked detailed football questions, Dan is a former QB who played at Dartmouth. His football IQ will be an interesting wrinkle once he's the new boss. I have a lot of faith he'll do a great job."

Find Dan Rooney's Dartmouth football bio HERE.

More from the Steelers Depot story:

After a period of time working within the Steelers organization, Dan Rooney detoured to the private sector. But he returned to the family business in recent years, becoming the Vice President of Business Development & Strategy. As mentioned, he has already spearheaded two major projects in that role, both smash successes. He is their point man on all international business, and he led the campaign to bring the draft to Pittsburgh. Beyond that, Dan Rooney was also involved, in some capacity, in the Steelers' surprise head coach search this offseason. While we have no idea of the extent of his involvement, we know that he participated.

As an aside, Dan Rooney isn't the only former Dartmouth quarterback on the Steelers' organizational chart. Cole Marcoux '14, who transitioned from QB to All-Ivy League tight end, is the program's Director of Football Administration.

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My in box has delivered a reminder that the Dartmouth Football Golf Classic at beautiful Montcalm Golf Club – just a 15-minute ride from campus – is one month and one week away. To sign up for the June 20 event or to participate as a sponsor, click HERE.

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Harvard has officially thrown down the gauntlet when it comes to Ivy League football scheduling. The Crimson announced these games in coming seasons:

2027
vs. UC Davis

2028
at Montana State
vs. Wofford

2031
at UC Davis
vs. Richmond 

2032
at Richmond

The lede in a Harvard release about the new opponents:

Harvard Football is set to play four first-time opponents in future seasons, with reigning national champion Montana State, 2025 NCAA quarterfinalist UC Davis, 10-time FCS Playoff participant Wofford, and perennial postseason qualifier Richmond all lined up to face the Crimson. 

Impressive. Find the full story on Harvard's website HERE.

Green Alert Take: Dartmouth coach Sammy McCorkle pointed out correctly in a recent BGA Overtime story that the addition of Richmond, Villanova and William & Mary has clearly raised the Patriot League's profile. But for the Ivies to improve the conference seeding come playoff time the rest of the league needs to continue to follow Harvard's lead and build up schedule strength beyond playing just the Patriot League, Northeast Conference teams and the occasional CAA member.

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EXTRA POINT
A friend who was cleaning out his house before a move to the Southwest came for lunch last week bearing gifts. He brought autographed copies of "Doggie Julian's" book, Bread and Butter Basketball, and YA Tittle's book Nothing Comes Easy: My Life in Football. I was sure Doggie, the legendary Dartmouth coach, had actually signed his book because, frankly, there would be no reason for anyone to fake his signature.

I wasn't completely sure about the Tittle autograph, which people are actually selling on eBay. Through the wonders of the internet, I was able to find a note card for sale, and sure enough, the autograph in the book matched perfectly.

But then it occurred to me, if I could find what the late quarterback's autograph looked like, so could someone who wanted to forge his signature.

Not that it matters. I'll flip through the book and eventually do what my old friend did and just pass it on to someone else at some point when I'm clearing out the house.