Dramatic Story of a Former Gridder's Son

Call him the one that got away. Morgan Brown, who grew up about 50 miles south of Dartmouth -- and is the son of former Big Green track standout and football player Robert Brown (a starting wide receiver and terrific decathlete according to a former teammate ) -- is the captain and starting shortstop for the baseball team at Harvard. The second-team, All-Ivy pick is also the subject of a dramatic (and long) story in the Harvard Crimson that includes this quote from coach Joe Walsh that summarizes what happened: “You think a ball hits you in the nose, that’s enough pain right there. But you never think that you’re going to be on the emergency table at two in the morning, almost bleeding to death.” ... Dartmouth assistant Mike Hodgson is among the coaches presenting at the Vermont Football Coaches' Association annual clinic. (Can't hurt the next time a possible recruit from Vermont comes along -- although that doesn't happen very often.) ... Mike's daughter Cassie, by the way, won tickets to see the Celtics-Lakers by sinking the first three-pointer during a halftime contest at last night's Dartmouth-Harvard women's basketball game. She's a basketball player on the powerful Hanover High program. ...

Dartmouth (21-6) pounded Harvard to win the game and a share of its record 15th Ivy League title before a crowd of 1,402. (That's 15 titles in 27 years, folks.) Dartmouth, Brown and Princeton finished in the first three-way tie in women's Ivy history, with each team going 1-1 against the other two. Although all three are considered champions, only one can win the league's automatic bid and so a playoff will be held. After last night's games (Princeton defeated Penn to join the party), a drawing was held to see which two teams would play Friday, and which would gain a bye until the determining game. The result: Dartmouth will play Brown at Yale Friday night with the winner advancing to play Princeton Sunday afternoon at Yale. The gutty Dartmouth team, by the way, made it this far after losing 6-foot-3 standout Elise Morrison early in the year to a foot injury. ... On the men's side, Princeton inched past Penn last night in overtime, but the Quakers still won the title. The two schools have combined to win the Ivy title every year but two since 1962.