From the Archives

It's a little dark but these clips from what I believe is Dartmouth's 1928 game with Cornell at Schoellkopf are well worth watching. The Big Green won that game, 28-0.

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The Dartmouth men's lacrosse team opened play yesterday with a 13-8 loss to Colgate in Hanover. On the Big Green roster (but not appearing in the game) was sophomore football placekicker RC Willenbrock. He missed the football season last fall with a back issue.

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Forbes Magazine earlier this week posted a column by Steven Salzberg, a professor at the University of Maryland who makes it abundantly clear he is no fan of big-time college football but praises the Ancient Eight approach. He writes:

Look at the Ivy League, which comprises 8 of the best universities in the country. They play sports against each other, they don’t award athletic scholarships, and their academic programs are the envy of the rest of the world.

Salzberg has a BA and MS from Yale, and a PhD from Harvard and so it's not hard to understand his appreciation for the Ivy League. What is hard to understand is the "sky is falling" statements in his piece like this:

The culture of football in American universities is completely out of control. It is undermining our education system and hurting our competitiveness in technology, science, and engineering.

And ...

I think we need to eliminate football entirely from our universities if we want to maintain our pre-eminent position as the world’s scientific and technological leader.

You know, I was wondering why the U.S. was falling behind in science and technology. Now I know. It's all big-time college football's fault!

Lest anyone get the wrong idea, the writer finishes his piece with this:

Note to my friends in other countries: by “football” I mean American football, that game with the peculiar oblong-shaped ball – not the wonderful game of soccer, which almost all other countries call “football.”

A standing seam roof costs a little more but with the snow we get in these parts it is money well spent because when the sun comes out the snow comes sliding off the roof. Of course, it can make for some pretty big piles directly in front of the house. Here's a look at the snow that slid off the roof of our sun room Saturday morning. Fortunately, what appears to be a "bowing" of the door is the result of a slightly wide-angle lense ;-)