Dartmouth will welcome 30 or so freshmen next August. Here's who they (and probably the majority of this year's freshmen) will play over their college careers:
2021
Sept. 18 A Valparaiso
Sept. 25 H Sacred Heart
Oct. 2 A Penn
Oct. 9 H Yale
Oct. 16 A New Hampshire
Oct. 23 H Columbia
Oct. 30 A Harvard
Nov. 6 H Princeton
Nov. 13 H Cornell
Nov. 20 A Brown
2022
Sept. 17 H Valparaiso
Sept. 24 A Sacred Heart
Oct. 1 H Penn
Oct. 8 A Yale
Oct. 15 H New Hampshire
Oct. 22 A Columbia
Oct. 29 H Harvard
Nov. 5 A Princeton
Nov. 12 A Cornell
Nov. 19 H Brown
2023
Sept. 16 A New Hampshire
Sept. 23 H Lehigh
Sept. 30 A Penn
Oct. 7 H Yale
Oct. 14 A Colgate
Oct. 21 H Columbia
Oct. 28 A Harvard
Nov. 4 H Princeton
Nov. 11 H Cornell
Nov. 18 A Brown
2024
Sept. 21 H Fordham
Sept. 28 A Army
Oct. 5 H Penn
Oct. 12 A Yale
Oct. 19 H Central Connecticut
Oct. 26 A Columbia
Nov. 2 H Harvard
Nov. 9 A Princeton
Nov. 16 A Cornell
Nov. 23 H Brown
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From the New York Times (LINK):
Washington promoted Jennifer King to assistant running backs coach, making her the first Black woman with a full-time N.F.L. coaching job, amid increasing scrutiny on the diversity of the league's hiring.
The Washington Football Team promoted Jennifer King to assistant running backs coach on Tuesday, making her the first Black woman to become a full-time coach in the N.F.L.
King's promotion accentuates the importance the Washington franchise has placed on diversifying after a tumultuous year in which its longtime logo and nickname, widely perceived as racist, were dropped. The move also comes as the N.F.L. faces increasing scrutiny because of its paucity of Black head coaches.
King, 36, was a coaching intern with the team this past season and previously served as an intern with the Carolina Panthers and as an offensive assistant at Dartmouth College.
If you can't access the Times, the AP has a story HERE.
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From an NFL press release (LINK):
The 6th annual NFL 1st and Future competition, for the first time, will be broadcast in primetime during Super Bowl LV week on NFL Network.
1st and Future is the NFL's annual Super Bowl event designed to spur innovation in athlete safety and performance.
From an AP story carried in USA Today regarding the impact of 1st & Future winners (LINK):
— Mobile Virtual Player (MVP) is a company started by Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens that invented a robotic tackling dummy which reduces tackling in practice. Teevens believed “there was a better way to replicate the needs of the game if we can get something that simulates movement on a field, be fast enough, thick enough, heavy enough to strike, but not jeopardize the person making the tackle or the person being tackled. That’s how it started.”
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That 6-foot-8, 240-pound video gamer-turned-defensive end who quickly drew interest from Dartmouth after just one season of football? In addition to Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell and Yale – among others – Michigan State is now showing interest in Aristotle Taylor. The Spartans have offered the big guy a preferred walk-on spot. (LINK)
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Engineering professor Doug Van Citters ’99 has been named Dartmouth's new Faculty Athletics Representative. (LINK)
Van Citters, who rowed as a Big Green student-athlete, graduated magna cum laude as a double major in engineering and environmental earth sciences and went on to earn his Ph.D. in engineering from Thayer School. Regarding his new position, he said:
"College sports played a large part in forming who I was and who I've become. From this experience, I know just how important sports are to our students' identities, and what sorts of competing pressures they face."
Green Alert Take: I've had the chance to sit down for interviews with Van Citters several times and could not have been more impressed. The surprising number of Dartmouth football players who study engineering are in tremendous hands with Van Citters and Thayer School research engineer John Currier.
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Hard to believe but Coastal Carolina football begins spring practice today, one month and one day after its bowl game. Coastal is slated to have its spring game on Feb. 18.
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EXTRA POINT
Mrs. BGA will receive the second of her COVID-19 vaccinations today. That's a relief.
But here's the thing: Researchers haven't yet determined if those who have been vaccinated might still carry and transmit the virus.
Prior to Mrs. BGA getting shots of the Pfizer vaccine, if she had exhibited any COVID symptoms we would have immediately started keeping our distance. Now? If those who have been vaccinated can be asymptomatic carriers we would have no way of knowing if she has it and, frankly, that's a little scary.
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On a brighter note, Griff the Wonder Dog came along on my hike yesterday. Here he is enjoying snow at the peak:
