Another quiet day on the Dartmouth football news front so it's time for the next look at the record book. Here are the Big Green quarterbacks with the Most Passing Yards in a Season:
|
Rank |
Name/Year |
Year |
Yards |
C-A |
Pct |
TD |
Int |
Record |
|
1 |
Brian Mann ‘02 |
2002 |
2913 |
253-423 |
59.8 |
19 |
10 |
3-7 |
|
2 |
Jay Fiedler ‘94 |
1992 |
2748 |
175-273 |
64.1 |
25 |
13 |
8-2 |
|
3 |
Jack Heneghan ‘18 |
2016 |
2725 |
247-414 |
59.7 |
11 |
14 |
4-6 |
|
4 |
Dalyn Williams ‘16 |
2015 |
2592 |
219-342 |
64.0 |
17 |
5 |
9-1 |
|
5 |
Jay Fiedler ‘94 |
1993 |
2542 |
160-321 |
49.8 |
20 |
19 |
7-3 |
|
6 |
David Gabianelli ‘87 |
1986 |
2264 |
141-259 |
54.4 |
17 |
12 |
3-6-1 |
|
7 |
Mark Johnson ‘90 |
1988 |
2262 |
196-350 |
56.0 |
11 |
11 |
5-5 |
|
8 |
Charlie Rittgers ‘06 |
2003 |
2138 |
177-312 |
56.7 |
15 |
9 |
5-5 |
|
9 |
Jack Heneghan ‘18 |
2017 |
2136 |
185-293 |
63.1 |
17 |
6 |
8-2 |
|
10 |
Dalyn Williams ‘16 |
2014 |
2119 |
181-268 |
67.5 |
21 |
3 |
8-2 |
For perspective on how the game has changed, here's something I didn't realize until typing up this chart: Current Big Green coach Buddy Teevens broke the single-season school record by 237 yards when he threw for 1,396 yards in 1978. The record Teevens broke of 1,159 had been set in 1972 by Steve Stetson '73, who also would go on to a long career as a college football coach. Teevens' mark was eclipsed in 1980 by Jeff Kemp '81, who would have a lengthy career in the NFL.
Derek Kyler led Dartmouth with 1,075 yards passing last year, completing 67.0 percent of his passes with 12 touchdowns and three interceptions. Jared Gerbino was right behind with 940 yards on 68.6 percent accuracy with nine TDs and two interceptions. As a team Dartmouth passed for 2,154 yards (68.1 percent) with 22 touchdowns and five interceptions.
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Columbia's celebration of its 150 years of football continues with its Top-10 Homecoming Victories, and two came at the expense of Dartmouth:
• No. 7, Oct. 22, 2016 – Columbia 9, Dartmouth 7
• No. 6, Oct. 21, 2000 – Columbia 49, Dartmouth 21
CLICK HERE to read mini-capsules of each of those games if you dare ;-)
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Stealing from Sports Illustrated, here are two more signs that the apocalypse is just about upon us:
• A USC quarterback recruit named Jake Garcia, whose parents divorced in order for him to be eligible to play high school football in Georgia after moving there when California shifted football season to the new year, has been ruled ineligible after playing one game. So what did his parents do? They moved him to another school in Georgia that already has played six games. (LINK)
(To see what the status is for high school football in all 50 states, click HERE.)
• From a breaking New York Times story about the lengths Alabama went to get the expedited COVID test that allowed Alabama coach Nick Saban to coach in Saturday night's game against Georgia:
Driving the last specimen to Mobile would have taken more than three hours on game day, potentially stripping Saban of precious time with his team. So Alabama athletics turned to its speediest option: its jet.
Green Alert Take: I was wrong. The apocalypse is upon us.
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A Friend of BGA sent along a LINK suggesting that Rutgers' claim to have invented football is about as dubious as the claim that Abner Doubleday invented baseball. What caught my eye wasn't that there's a dispute about the origins of football because that's really impossible to determine, but that Rutgers and Princeton both claim a share of the 1869 national championship after they went 1-1 against each other.
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EXTRA POINT
Like many (most?) of you I'm more than ready to be done with the election and the endless TV commercials. That said, if you don't live in these parts you might want to check out this one, which should probably be rated XX. (No, it's not dirty. It's a joke you will understand after watching the actor – who lives in Vermont – reprise his most famous "role.")
