A site called Wide World of Stadiums recently posted a look at Ivy League football stadiums and neither the video nor the few comments following it are particularly kind to Dartmouth's Memorial Field.
The brief look at Memorial Field was before the home stands were replaced (not that it shows much of the old stands anyway) and before the visiting stands were finished. Cornell's Schoellkopf Field video isn't current either, although in that case it works to the school's favor because it still shows visiting stands, which no longer exist:
The Pioneer Football League has decided it will not play this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic, but is hoping the season can be shifted to the spring.
The PFL will make the announcement official Friday. Two USD players said they were told in a team meeting Thursday that the fall season has been canceled.
Marist, which Dartmouth was scheduled to host on Oct. 17, is a member of the far-flung Pioneer Football League.
The Union-Tribune story includes this:
The PFL is hoping it can play football in the spring.
“If the virus kind of tones down and it’s a viable option, if it’s safe for players to play, we all hope it will go in the spring,” said (redshirt defensive end Nick) Friedel.
From STATS (LINK):
Six of the 13 FCS conferences - the CAA, Ivy, MEAC, Northeast, Patriot and SWAC - announced last month they won't have a fall season and reportedly the Pioneer Football League voted on Thursday to join them. If a conference with the stature of the Big Sky cancels its fall season as well, it will all but be a death-knell for having FCS playoffs this fall.
The Big Sky includes Montana, Montana State and Eastern Washington among others.
ESPN reports the Big Sky is considering a spring season. (LINK)
Green Alert Take: At some point the NCAA is going to have to make a ruling about spring football. But it can't do that until a nationwide decision is made about fall football.
The elephants in the room holding up a decision about fall or spring football, of course, are the Power Five schools, one of which produced this video imploring people to do something that would help their chances of getting on the field in a few weeks:
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How do Dartmouth students feel about the school's plan for "on campus" studies this fall? They aren't particularly satisfied per a story in The Dartmouth. (LINK)
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EXTRA POINT
After hearing yesterday that That Certain Dartmouth '14 was "contact traced" in Colorado and told she will have to quarantine for 14 days after giving a COVID-positive co-worker whose car was in the shop a ride home, I started thinking back to who has been in my car in recent months.
The answer? Since early March only Mrs. BGA and the Wonder Dog. That's it.
Then I started trying to remember whose car I've been in. The answer? Mrs. BGA's and one afternoon a couple of months ago the car belonging to That Certain Penn State '16 for about 10 miles.
Strange times indeed.