Sunday Stuff

 Big Blue View has a story headlined Giants’ edge defenders: Overhauled and underwhelming that includes this about Niko Lalos (LINK):

The former Dartmouth star became a bit of a cult hero when he came off the Giants’ practice squad and had an interception and a fumble recovery in his first two NFL games.

An undrafted free agent, Lalos brought energy, athleticism and a nose for the ball to the defense beginning in Week 12. Lalos, though, played only five total defensive snaps over the season’s final two weeks.

Will his story be just a nice footnote to the Giants’ 2020 season? Or, can he build on what he did and become a valued part of the defensive rotation in 2021?

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The Yale Daily News has a story taking a look at what may or may not happen this spring after the Ivy League's fall and winter sports seasons were canceled because of the pandemic. From the story (LINK):

With the beginning of Yale’s spring semester two and a half weeks away, the Ivy League released a “status update,” obtained by the News, to spring-sport students and coaches Thursday but said a final decision on spring competition had not been made.

Thursday’s update, which marked the Ivy League’s first official guidance on spring athletics since November, acknowledged that many spring athletes may need to make enrollment decisions and plan for the spring without any final answer on the status of competition.

More from the story . . . 

“Students should understand that there must be significant changes in the state of the pandemic before competition becomes feasible and that a number of factors are outside institutional control,” one section of the Ivy League’s update read. “Should competition become feasible this term it will, at best, result in an abbreviated, and likely significantly curtailed, competition schedule. Delaying a final determination allows the possibility of conditions sufficiently improving.”

And . . .

In an email to Harvard’s student-athletes obtained by the News, the Crimson’s Director of Athletics Erin McDermott stated that, “it is more likely that a decision about any possible spring competition will be made some time in February, to give time for potential improvements in conditions.” 

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Today's look at the Dartmouth football record book features all-time coaching records, first in chronological order, then sorted by wins and finally by winning percentage:

 CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER (No coach from 1881-92):

Name	Years	Seasons	Games	Won	Lost	Tied	Pct.
Wallace Moyle	1893-94	2	16	9	7	0	.588
William Wurtenburg	1895-99	5	48	23	23	2	.500
Frederick Jennings	1900	1	8	2	4	2	.375
Walter McCormack	1901-02	2	19	15	3	1	.816
Fred Folsom	1903-06	4	38	29	5	4	.816
John O’Connor	1907-08	2	17	14	1	2	.882
Walter Lillard	1909	1	8	5	1	2	.750
William Randall	1910	1	7	5	2	0	.714
Frank Cavanaugh	1911-16	6	54	42	9	3	.805
Clarence Spears	1917-20	4	31	21	9	1	.681
Jackson Cannell	1921-22, 1929-33	7	62	39	19	4	.661
Jesse Hawley	1923-28	6	50	39	10	1	.790
Earl Blaik	1934-40	7	64	45	15	4	.734
Tuss McLaughry	1941-42, 1945-54	12	105	44	58	3	.425
Earl Brown	1943-44	2	15	8	6	1	.567
Bob Blackman	1955-70	16	144	104	37	3	.732
Jake Crouthamel	1971-77	7	63	41	20	2	.667
Joe Yukica	1978-86	9	87	36	47	4	.437
John Lyons	2992-2004	13	129	60	68	1	.469
Buddy Teevens	1987-91, 2005-	20	200	105	93	2	.530

 

BY VICTORIES:

Name	Years	Seasons	Games	Won	Lost	Tied	Pct.
Buddy Teevens	1987-91, 2005-	20	200	105	93	2	.530
Bob Blackman	1955-70	16	144	104	37	3	.732
John Lyons	2992-2004	13	129	60	68	1	.469
Earl Blaik	1934-40	7	64	45	15	4	.734
Tuss McLaughry	1941-42, 1945-54	12	105	44	58	3	.425
Frank Cavanaugh	1911-16	6	54	42	9	3	.805
Jake Crouthamel	1971-77	7	63	41	20	2	.667
Jackson Cannell	1921-22, 1929-33	7	62	39	19	4	.661
Jesse Hawley	1923-28	6	50	39	10	1	.790
Joe Yukica	1978-86	9	87	36	47	4	.437
Fred Folsom	1903-06	4	38	29	5	4	.816
William Wurtenburg	1895-99	5	48	23	23	2	.500
Clarence Spears	1917-20	4	31	21	9	1	.681
Walter McCormack	1901-02	2	19	15	3	1	.816
John O’Connor	1907-08	2	17	14	1	2	.882
Wallace Moyle	1893-94	2	16	9	7	0	.588
Earl Brown	1943-44	2	15	8	6	1	.567
Walter Lillard	1909	1	8	5	1	2	.750
William Randall	1910	1	7	5	2	0	.714
Frederick Jennings	1900	1	8	2	4	2	.375

 

BY WINNING PERCENTAGE:

Name	Years	Seasons	Games	Won	Lost	Tied	Pct.
John O’Connor	1907-08	2	17	14	1	2	.882
Fred Folsom	1903-06	4	38	29	5	4	.816
Walter McCormack	1901-02	2	19	15	3	1	.816
Frank Cavanaugh	1911-16	6	54	42	9	3	.805
Jesse Hawley	1923-28	6	50	39	10	1	.790
Walter Lillard	1909	1	8	5	1	2	.750
Earl Blaik	1934-40	7	64	45	15	4	.734
Bob Blackman	1955-70	16	144	104	37	3	.732
William Randall	1910	1	7	5	2	0	.714
Clarence Spears	1917-20	4	31	21	9	1	.681
Jake Crouthamel	1971-77	7	63	41	20	2	.667
Jackson Cannell	1921-22, 1929-33	7	62	39	19	4	.661
Wallace Moyle	1893-94	2	16	9	7	0	.588
Earl Brown	1943-44	2	15	8	6	1	.567
Buddy Teevens	1987-91, 2005-	20	200	105	93	2	.530
William Wurtenburg	1895-99	5	48	23	23	2	.500
John Lyons	2992-2004	13	129	60	68	1	.469
Joe Yukica	1978-86	9	87	36	47	4	.437
Tuss McLaughry	1941-42, 1945-54	12	105	44	58	3	.425
Frederick Jennings	1900	1	8	2	4	2	.375

 

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EXTRA POINT

When we lived on Moose Mountain, in a rural part of Hanover, we paid our snowplow driver by the visit. If we had a 21-inch snowfall he might come twice and we'd have to pay for two plowings. It was amazing how four inches of snow in late February wasn't plow-worthy, but it was absolutely necessary in the week or two before Christmas.  ;-)

Here in Vermont we have a different deal. Instead of charging by the job, our plow guy offers a seasonal rate. That being the case, he's more than welcome to come two or even three times if we get a couple of feet. And if a piddling three inches falls a few days before Christmas? Bring it on. Heck, plow it twice.

He even promised to have our driveway cleared by 6 a.m., in time for Mrs. BGA to head off to work, and last winter he delivered on that promise. It's a good deal.

Except . . .

Except we've had just one plowable snowfall this winter. (For the record, the plow guy did come one other time, but I have a suspicion that visit was more out of a feeling of guilt than anything else because it might be stretching it to say we had three inches that day.)

In the nearby mountains yesterday they reported a foot of snow. We got another three inches or so. I'm almost surprised the plow guy didn't come by again. Not to sock away a little bonus, like the last guy did in the days before Christmas.

To make sure his plow isn't rusted in place.