This week's Woods Watch Party will feature Dartmouth's 2017 shootout with Princeton from Memorial Field. That game will be streamed Saturday at 1:30. As has been the case all fall, this site will repost the BGA Premium preview of the contest Saturday and the BGA game story on Sunday. Find the stream of the game HERE.
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If you've been paying attention this week you should have an idea about what's coming next. After posting the Dartmouth single game and single season Top-10s for passing yardage in recent days, today it is the 10 Big Green leaders for Passing Yards in a Career:
|
Rank |
Name/Year |
Yards |
C-A |
Pct |
TD |
Int |
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1 |
Dalyn Williams ‘16 |
7458 |
620-989 |
62.7 |
56 |
13 |
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2 |
Jay Fiedler ‘94 |
6684 |
456-813 |
56.1 |
58 |
43 |
|
3 |
Brian Mann ‘02 |
5912 |
560-952 |
58.8 |
33 |
41 |
|
4 |
Jack Heneghan ‘18 |
4900 |
437-717 |
60.9 |
28 |
20 |
|
5 |
Conner Kempe ‘12 |
4499 |
422-786 |
53.7 |
26 |
29 |
|
6 |
Charlie Rittgers ‘06 |
4472 |
398-731 |
54.4 |
25 |
29 |
|
7 |
Mark Johnson ‘90 |
4413 |
389-757 |
51.4 |
25 |
25 |
|
8 |
David Gabianelli ‘87 |
3424 |
230-437 |
52.6 |
22 |
16 |
|
9 |
Jon Aljancic ‘97 |
3141 |
230-441 |
52.2 |
16 |
17 |
|
10 |
Frank Polsinello ‘84 |
2942 |
223-380 |
58.7 |
13 |
20 |
Dartmouth senior Derek Kyler is currently 14th on the list with 2,437 yards, all in the past two years while splitting time with Jared Gerbino. Should he match his average of 1,218 yards each of the past two seasons he would finish with 3,655 yards, good for eighth on the Dartmouth ledger. He has 25 touchdown throws to five interceptions and is completing 68.2 percent of his attempts (193-283).
For context, Cornell's Jeff Mathews is the Ivy League career leader with 11,284 yards with 72 touchdowns, 42 interceptions and a 62.2 career passing percentage on 901-1,447.
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The Yale Daily News has a story headlined, Yale epidemiologists uncertain about possibility of spring-semester competition that includes this:
(Yale heavyweight crew coach Steve) Gladstone told the News he is not optimistic about a racing season this spring. As Ivy League schools operate on different academic schedules and the number of students permitted on each campus varies, he questioned who would be there to compete.
“They’re a lot of people at all of these universities that are taking the year off, so what kind of Eastern Sprints champion would you have?” Gladstone said. “What kind of IRA champion would you have? It would be a very, very watered down non-representative group.”
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A writer from The Oklahoman made a New England trip to check out the leaves and came away impressed by what he saw, writing (LINK):
The vibrant colors are mostly gone, fading literally while we were here. The vibrant colors. The OSU orange, the Nebraska red, the Baylor neon yellow.
But the emblazoned colors remain. The burnt orange (did a New Englander assign that color to the Longhorns? Wouldn’t surprise me.) The maroon and crimson. The old gold.
Before he left he stopped by Hanover and included this in his flattering writeup:
“We even found the 10,000-seat football field, Memorial Stadium, with red ivy growing along its brick facade.
"Dartmouth has a storied football history -- 19 Ivy League titles, including a co-championship with Yale last autumn. And 50 years ago, 1970, a year which might seem ancient history but a season in which I well remember, the Big Green of Dartmouth went 9-0 under the great Bob Blackman. Dartmouth finished 14th in the final AP poll. One spot ahead of Southern Cal, four spots ahead of Penn State and six spots ahead of OU.”
Green Alert Take: Memorial Field. Repeat after me people. Memorial Field. But hey, at least he didn't write Dartmouth University.
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The Manchester Union Leader picked up on the note in this space yesterday with a wire story it headlined, Did lavish wedding turn Dartmouth assistant athletic director's future wife into ‘Bridezilla’? (LINK)
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As a former Little League coach it pained me to see youth baseball canceled last spring but I understood that even as an outdoor sport we had to be careful. Now this from the Union Leader (LINK):
Over the past two months, the state has identified 158 cases of players and staff contracting COVID-19, including 117 linked directly to eight different outbreaks among youth hockey programs and another 41 cases related to participants, according to Dr. Benjamin Chan, the state’s epidemiologist.
From the InDepth NH website under the headline, Hockey Moms Rebel Against Proposed Revised Guidelines After Ice Rink Closures. (Italics in the last paragraph are mine.)
Gov. Chris Sununu last Thursday closed all ice arenas for two weeks to allow for deep cleaning, testing, and revision of the current guidelines. They will stay closed until 11:59 p.m. Oct. 29 if not longer if Sununu decides to continue the “pause.”
The closure came after state health officials, using contact tracing data, found there have been 184 New Hampshire residents diagnosed with COVID-19 directly related to hockey.
Calling it a “dangerous precedent” that could limit out-of-state play, they complained to the committee that this would be onerous and unfair to single out this sport.
Green Alert Take: Talk about dangerous precedents . . .
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From the moderator of last night's presidential debate:
The guy in the middle of the top row is my dad. Dartmouth class of '65 Funny what you find on the campaign trail! pic.twitter.com/oXkkTp1NVT
— Kristen Welker (@kwelkernbc) July 3, 2015
Harvey Welker was a 5-foot-11, 195-pound guard from Mansfield, Ohio. Though he never lettered he earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1965 and his master's in '67.
Kristen Welker is a Harvard grad.
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EXTRA POINT
I promised myself I wasn't going to watch the debate last night and broke my promise. Like me, you ended up seeing whatever you wanted to see, as was the case with Dartmouth and Princeton students in the oft-cited 1954 case study They Saw a Game spun out of a particularly rough contest between the Big Green and the Tigers.
When the candidates finished last night I spun the dial (OK, pushed the buttons) to bring up the Giants-Eagles game. With former Penn State greats Saquon Barkley and Miles Sanders both sidelined, the game between two terrible NFC East teams held little appeal until it turned into a riveting barn-burner. But that's not why I bring it up.
Maybe you saw this during a game last weekend – I didn't – but somehow, some way, Budweiser managed during a pandemic to make a funny and appealing football commercial. Pure genius:
