The New Orleans Times-Picayune website has a story about the work quarterback Arch Manning – nephew of Peyton and Eli and grandson of Archie – has done between his freshman and sophomore years at Newman School, and Dartmouth freshman receiver Jarmone Sutherland is featured prominently. From the story (LINK):
Last season, Manning kept more to himself on a team that had 25 seniors, including standout receiver Jarmone Sutherland, who set several Newman career records and is now a freshman wideout at Dartmouth.
(Coach Nelson Stewart) lauded Sutherland as “a great role model” for Manning.
“Jarmone was really irreplaceable … the root of our offensive success,” Stewart said.
And . . .
Sutherland, the receiver now at Dartmouth, helped Manning back when he was in eighth grade at Newman.
Manning attended Newman games on Fridays. On Saturday mornings, the pair walked through plays the Greenies ran the night before, all to help prepare the young passer for his first varsity season.
When last season began, Sutherland commonly led the game-plan meetings with questions and direction. But over time, Manning grew more comfortable being a person in charge. Most importantly, it happened naturally.
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Click HERE for another story about Dartmouth-bound quarterback Jackson Proctor prior to his commitment. The piece includes his impressions of Harvard, Penn and Columbia after visiting those and other schools.
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Following up on yesterday's preview of the Woods Watch Party 2016 Dartmouth football game against New Hampshire, here's the BGA game story as it appeared on the night of the game. Once again, as tempted as I might be to clean up some of the typos, errors and writing, this is what appeared on the site. There were two follow stories on the game as well.
Storybook Ending For The Big Green Closes Book On The New Hampshire Jinx
BGA Premium, Sept. 29, 2016
HANOVER – The end was so dramatic and the result so significant that after Dartmouth’s 22-21 win over New Hampshire Saturday night you half expected Buddy Teevens to ignore the question, stare into the closest camera and shout, “I’m going to Disneyworld.”
The question went something like this:
Coach, your team was down, 21-7, in the fourth quarter against a nationally ranked, scholarship team that you hadn’t beaten in 40 years. You had a brand new quarterback, three first-time starters on the offensive line, a defense with 10 new starters, you turned the ball over four times and still you took the measure of your rival from across the state for the first time in 20 tries. Given all that, was this the most memorable nonconference victory you’ve ever had at Dartmouth?
Teevens, who had just presided over his 49th nonleague game covering two tenures as head coach at his alma mater, never hesitated.
“It’s the best I can remember, yup,” he said. “It was a big one. And the way that it happened. That was the key.”
Trailing by 14 points to start the fourth quarter, Dartmouth used a 28-yard field goal by David Smith with 13:45 left to make it 21-10.
The Big Green seemed to be in a world of hurt when All-American Casey DeAndrade forced a fumble with 10:25 remaining to give the UNH (1-2) the ball at midfield and the Wildcats proceeded to drive to the Dartmouth 17. But on the first play after a holding call pushed them back to the 27 the Big Green safety Colin Boit intercepted an Adam Riese pass at the 14 and returned it 42 yards to the UNH 44.
Given a life, Dartmouth took advantage behind the timely and heady play of quarterback Jack Heneghan.
Facing a fourth-and-one after getting to the 23, Heneghan found Houston Brown down the left side for a 19-yard gain. On the very next play the quarterback improvised a four-yard, shot-put pass to Emory Thompson for a touchdown to make it 21-16 with exactly five minutes remaining. The two-point conversion try, which would have pulled Dartmouth within a field goal, failed.
Now needing a quick stop and yet another touchdown, the Big Green got the former but very nearly lost a chance at the latter.
After a UNH three-and-out Dartmouth returner Charlie Miller – who had returned the opening kickoff 55 yards – fumbled Max Pedinoff’s punt. But Lucas Bavaro recovered the miscue to set the Big Green up at its own 20 with 3:35 remaining.
Heneghan, who had just five completions to his name before this season, went right back to work. Showing tremendous poise for a first-time starter, he found Brown for 11 yards on first down. One snap later he took advantage of a blown coverage to hit Charles Mack for 24 yards to the UNH 45.
After a run for three yards and an incompletion, Thompson made a nice adjustment to catch a 37-yarder from Heneghan down the right side to set Dartmouth up at the UNH five with 2 minutes, 15 seconds to go.
Heneghan, who hurt UNH with his feet all night, then ran to the one on a quarterback draw.
What would prove to be the winning touchdown came on the next snap as Heneghan collected the snap, couldn’t see an open receiver and headed toward the line of scrimmage. Before he got there, however, he spied Charles Mack coming free and for the second time in less than 3 1/2 minutes, he improvised and half-shoveled a pass to the open receiver for Dartmouth’s first lead of the second half.
The Big Green again tried for two and again came up empty, leaving it to the defense to protect a one-point lead and lock up a signature win.
New Hampshire converted a fourth-and-two while moving the ball to midfield, but a false start on a fourth-and-one pushed the Wildcats back to their 45 before a sack by Dartmouth junior Brennan Cascarano at the 42 with 27 seconds remaining brought the Big Green offense onto the field in victory formation.
“It was a great effort by Dartmouth,” said a dejected New Hampshire Coach Sean McDonnell. “Hat goes off to them. Down, 21-7, they found a way to come back and win a football game. They struggled with turnovers a little bit. They found a way at the end. …
“I tip my hat to the quarterback Heneghan. I thought he played well. I thought he did some really good things in the second half. They made some plays. We didn’t. Good win for them. Tough loss for us.”
Heneghan completed 22-of-46 passes for 229 yards and three touchdowns with two interceptions. He also ran a team-high 14 ties for 80 yards.
Ryder Stone had a game-high 90 yards on seven carries for the Big Green while Brown led the receiving corps with eight catches for 99 yards and one touchdown.
The Dartmouth defense limited dangerous back Dalton Crossan, who had 199 yards in a win over Holy Cross last week, to 45 yards on 12 carries.
The win sends a message to the rest of the Ivy League that, despite losing a host of all-conference players from last year’s team, Dartmouth isn’t going to give up the Ivy League title it won last year without a fight.
“The big thing is the message to ourselves,” said Teevens. “It’s, you control what you do. It was confidence and execution. That was the key.
“It fluttered a little bit early and we rebounded. I’ll be honest with you. I wasn’t sure which way. I believe in my team consummately, but it could have gone a lot of different ways. The way it went is the way I hoped it would and certainly they worked hard. They believed. They executed. They did what they had to do. … Confidence and execution will put us in a good place.”
Dartmouth linebacker Flo Orimolade, who had a team-high nine tackles, one forced fumble and collected one tackle for loss, likes where the Big Green finds itself heading into next week’s contest at Holy Cross.
“It puts us one step closer to going undefeated,” the preseason All-America linebacker said.
