Sportscasting.com catches us up on where former Dartmouth and Miami Dolphins quarterback Jay Fielder '94 is, and what he's doing these days. (LINK)
The story details his ownership with his brother of the Brookwood Camps, his tutelage of players in his Primetime Camps and his contributions to the Dolphins' Phinmaniacs podcast. Here's the latest edition of the podcast, which includes a few Fiedler highlights:
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Right around this time of the season every few years there's another story about the famous Fifth Down Game between Dartmouth and Cornell. This year it's the Cornell Sun resurrecting the story. (LINK)
For those of you who are new around here:
The Fifth Down Game, which took place 80 years ago yesterday, saw undefeated Cornell head back to Ithaca as 7-3 winners over Dartmouth as a result of a touchdown in the final minute. Film would later show the officials lost count of the downs and the Big Red scored on the famed "fifth down."
Cornell eventually offered the "win" back to Dartmouth and the game went into the books as a 3-0 Big Green victory.
The Sun tells the story of Cornell's much-honored decision to offer Dartmouth the win and how it didn't work out quite the way some up in the Finger Lakes expected. From the story:
Edmund Ezra Day, then the president of Cornell, was a Dartmouth graduate. Lou Conti ’41, a guard on the 1940 team, told The Los Angeles Times in 2010 that Day said, “You can offer them the game, but they won’t accept it.”
“We didn’t believe that. I didn’t believe that. Nobody believed that they would not accept the game,” Conti said.
Frank “Bud” Finneran ’41 said he’ll “never forget this as long as I live.”
“(Day) said, ‘Fellas, I’m a Dartmouth graduate,’ and he was,” Finneran said. “He said, ‘I know Dartmouth and it won’t be long before we get a return telegraph saying, ‘No Cornell you won it on the field, and that’s the way it should be.’
Not for the first time and probably not for the last, here's a video featuring some of the principals involved in the story:“And I always used to say, ‘We’re still waiting for that telegram.’”
Even as positive COVID-19 cases at the College remain in the single digits, 56 students are currently in quarantine and five are in isolation, according to Dartmouth’s COVID-19 dashboard. The current total is a spike from the dashboard’s totals on Saturday, when 29 students and 7 staff members were in quarantine, and a total of 25 students and staff were in isolation.
And . . .
(T)he quarantine tally is the highest number recorded since Sept. 16, when 66 students were quarantined.
And . . .
As of Nov. 16, state data reports 3,334 active cases in New Hampshire and 17 cases in Hanover. According to The New York Times, as of Nov. 15, the average number of daily new cases in the last seven days in New Hampshire is 312, the state’s highest number since the pandemic began in March. The College has reported five active student cases as of Nov. 16.
EXTRA POINT
Apart from COVID fatigue and my BGA Premium and freelance writing work drying up, things are fine here at the BGA World Headquarters. Thankfully, I haven't been sick and neither has Mrs. BGA, despite every day walking through the doors of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center to take care of patients who are.
Still, the pandemic took an emotional toll on us last night.
That Certain Dartmouth '14, who had long been looking forward to a relaxing 10-day vacation with us around Thanksgiving, made the difficult – but wise – decision last night to cancel her visit. There were tears all the way around and long periods of silence during our FaceTime call confirming her decision, but in the end we all knew it was the right thing to do.
On a happier note, TCD'14, now an educational ranger in the National Park Service, shared this photo with us of what she did last weekend out in Colorado:
