“The mighty eleven of Dartmouth College, bearing the standard of the East, triumphed over the West, yesterday, when a Washington team bowed in defeat before an aerial attack the likes of which was never before witnessed in local football history. Twenty-eight points to seven–four touchdowns to one–was the result of the epochal struggle fought in Seattle's new athletic field, when the largest crowd in Northwest football history saw the wearers of the green forward-pass their way to a rightly-earned win.
"The phenomenal passing game of the Hanover men, that and that alone, spelled the defeat of Washington."
And this:
"With Captain Jim Robertson, the All-American backfield man of Dartmouth, lobbing the football like Ty Cobb throwing baseballs, the crowd was treated to a dazzling display of passing which electrified the spectators and bewildered the Washington secondary defense. Long passes and short passes, low, bullet-like lobs and long spirals which soared half the length of the field was the assortment which the Dartmouth quarterback served at regular intervals, and too often the passes settled into the waiting arms of Green-jerseyed athletes from the New England Coast."
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With TD Ameritrade's acquisition by Charles Schwab PRNewswire has a story under the headline, Former TD Ameritrade Chairman of the Board Joe Moglia bids farewell to the online broker in the wake of the Schwab acquisition and announces his plans for the future. From the story (LINK):
What makes Moglia quite different from virtually all other business leaders is that he started out as a football coach, his last job as a defensive coordinator at Dartmouth University—a passion he relinquished to support his growing family.
Green Alert Take: Seriously? Dartmouth University?
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The 2019 Dartmouth football team has its own Wikipedia page HERE. And at the bottom of that page are links to a long list of other Big Green football pages dating back to 1881, although 2002-2009 are notably absent. OK, so that era didn't exactly represent a high-water mark for the program, but those years should be included. Anyone?
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Count me among those who thought whatever decision the NCAA makes regarding Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) would have little – if any – impact on Ivy League athletes. Now that legislation has passed. (LINK)
Reading down information about the NAIA rules on NIL has changed my mind about the impact on the Ivies. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes has pulled together a chart (LINK) with columns labeled "Scenario," "Under current NAIA rules," and "If NIL restrictions were removed," that includes this introduction:
The public perception of name, image and likeness conversations is that laws like California’s Fair Pay to Play Act will primarily affect top-tier athletes at NCAA Division I schools. While that may hold true for the more lucrative endorsement deals, NAIA athletes could still benefit financially in a number of ways. In fact, the NAIA national office routinely receives phone calls from schools, students and third parties on this topic. Below is a sampling of past questions and possible future applications for NAIA student-athletes.
Among the "Scenarios" listed as "Permitted" if the NIL restrictions are removed:
• Student wants to sell supplements, leveraging their status as a student-athlete in the promotion.
• Student wants to offer batting lessons to youth for an hourly fee. Student advertises on social media and flyers around town, including action shots of her batting in uniform.
• Student wanted to receive compensation for appearing in a local commercial.
• Instagram influencer making money off of social media.
• YouTube channel focusing on a student-athlete’s day-to-day life. Student made money off of YouTube advertisements (available to any YouTube channel host).
Green Alert Take: Given some of the Ivy League's antediluvian eligibility rules (forbidding someone like Princeton grad Chris Young from playing basketball after signing a baseball contract) the Ancient Eight is going to have to look itself in the mirror.
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EXTRA POINT
Following up on yesterday's idea of eschewing the standard (and increasingly ineffectual) onside kick and instead blasting a screaming line drive into a member of the "hands" team, a loyal reader who happens to be the father of a former Big Green kicker wrote this:
My son did have several onside kicks planned with his high school team. ... (I)n practice he did execute exactly as you described – banging the ball off the helmet of the hands team front line and (it was) recovered safely by a kicking team teammate. The unique part was he had been asked by the special team's coach to do it without the rest of the team knowing it was coming. And he did it twice. ... Soccer free kicks in his youth was certainly the influence."
