From The 'Vault'

 Cover of the Nov. 9, 1970 issue of Sports Illustrated:

Here's a headline from a story in the above issue of SI above that you wouldn't see today:

Just Ask The Tailgate Set Who Is No. 1

And The Answer Will Be—No, Not One Of Those Teams Up There On Page 15—It Will Be Dartmouth, Which Last Week Shut Out Yale In A Battle Between Undefeated And, If You Can Believe It, Nationally Ranked Teams

Read the story in the SI Vault HERE. 

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The 1970 Dartmouth team allowed just 28 points in Ivy League play and 42 points overall. Here's how each of the Big Green's Ivy League championship teams have fared offensively and defensively:

Year	Ivy	PF	PA	Overall	PF	PA
1958	6-1	154	69	7-2	182	83
1962	7-0	199	54	9-0	236	57
1963	5-2	142	68	7-2	175	94
1965	7-0	188	59	9-0	271	71
1966	6-1	250	117	7-2	273	131
1969	6-1	213	93	8-1	292	93
1970	7-0	234	28	9-0	311	42
1971	6-1	148	90	8-1	207	106
1972	5-1-1	219	147	7-1-1	260	168
1973	6-1	175	99	6-3	184	119
1978	6-1	170	104	6-3	187	159
1981	6-1	193	87	6-4	208	137
1982	5-2	170	145	5-5	219	235
1990	6-1	147	65	7-2-1	211	121
1991	6-0-1	215	140	7-2-1	283	209
1992	6-1	245	144	8-2	364	203
1996	7-0	199	76	10-0	275	104
2015	6-1	174	77	9-1	288	101
2019	6-1	211	108	9-1	333	124

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Fox News has a story headlined, Jennifer King: What to know about the first Black female NFL position coach. It begins with another familiar name (LINK):

Washington’s Jennifer King was a part of history during the 2020 season when she and Cleveland Browns’ chief of staff Callie Brownson were both on the sidelines for the teams’ matchups.

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Dartmouth has advertised for new women's basketball, women's golf and men's/women's swimming and diving head coaches. Curious what the minimum requirements are? Check 'em out:

Women's Basketball

Women's Golf

Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving

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Speaking of women's basketball, old friend Courtney Banghart '00, who put Princeton on the national map for the women's game, helped North Carolina win five of its last seven games this winter to earn an at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament with a 13-10 record. The Tar Heels are a 10th seed and will face seventh-seeded Alabama on Monday.

As reported last fall, Banghart has the third-ranked recruiting class in the nation headed to Chapel Hill next year. From an ESPN story on her class (LINK):

Courtney Banghart signed an eye-opening class in her first go-round in Chapel Hill, and she might have already outdone herself with her second signing class.

An inspirational three-point sniper and defensive menace as a Dartmouth player, Banghart went on to serve as a Big Green assistant before posting a 254-103 record at Princeton – including a 30-0 regular season in 2014-15 that saw her named the Naismith National Coach of the Year.

Banghart is joined on the UNC staff by Chris Leazier, who worked with her at Dartmouth from 2003-07

Green Alert Take: No one in Hanover or Princeton who has watched Banghart's development as a coach could be surprised that she's getting the UNC program going.

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EXTRA POINT
Google the migration of robins and you'll find numerous postings explaining that they are capable of surviving winter in northern climates and don't all head south to escape the cold.

That may well be, but I can report I didn't see a single robin all winter. Not one. 

Yesterday, for the first time this year, I spotted robins – dozens of them – around our house and in our field. Just like that, they were back.

The TV weather people tell us the temperature is warming and the calendar might say spring arrives this weekend but for me, the true sign of the change of seasons is spotting that first robin. All I can say is, Welcome Back!