Saw this on STATS Perform FCS (LINK):
1. Yale (1872 first season): 916-380-55 (.698)
2. Harvard (1874): 879-403-50 (.679)
3. Penn (1876): 861-500-42 (.629)
4. Princeton (1869): 840-413-50 (.664)
5. North Dakota State (1894): 745-372-34 (.662)
6. Dartmouth (1881): 715-458-46 (.605)
7. Delaware (1889): 703-467-43 (.597)
8. Lehigh (1884): 700-612-45 (.532)
9. Dayton (1905): 687-377-25 (.642)
10. Lafayette (1882): 683-621-39 (.523)
11. Northern Iowa (1895): 682-428-47 (.610)
12. North Dakota (1894): 661-415-30 (.611)
13. Colgate (1890): 660-497-50 (.568)
14. Cornell (1887): 648-536-34 (.546)
15. Holy Cross (1896): 640-535-55 (.543)
Also:
19. Brown (1878): 615-594-40 (.508)
And . . .
NR. Columbia (1870) 395-681-43 (.372)
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Going back to the original source in a failed attempt to find Columbia's ranking, I stumbled across Dartmouth players holding FCS records. Here they are (LINK):
MOST RUSHES IN A HALF
32—David Clark, Dartmouth vs. Penn, Nov. 18, 1989 (2nd); Arnold Mickens, Butler vs.Valparaiso, Oct. 8, 1994 (1st)
MOST TOUCHDOWNS SCORED ON INTERCEPTION RETURNS GAME
2—By 27 players. Most recent: Ray Mitchell, UNI vs. Western Ill., Nov. 23, 2013; Will McNamara, Dartmouth vs. Columbia, Oct. 26, 2013
MOST BLOCKED FIELD GOALS SEASON
4—Leonard Smith, McNeese, 1981; Mark Weivoda, Idaho St., 2001; Clayton Smith, Dartmouth, 2004; Hunter Kiselick, Georgetown, 2016
LAST TIE GAME
Nov. 18, 1995—Dartmouth 10, Princeton 10
For those of you who are new to the Ivy League, here's how that infamous tie came about. If the field goal at the end had gone wide or been blocked, Dartmouth, Princeton, Penn and Cornell would have all finished 5-2 in the only four-way tie for the title in Ivy League history. Instead the Tigers won it all with a 5-1-1 record.
Nov. 18, 1995: 25 years ago, Princeton and Dartmouth played the last FCS game to end in a tie.
— FCS Football (@FCS_STATS) November 18, 2020
Princeton's Alex Sierk kicked an 18-yard field goal with 1 second left to forge a 10-10 tie and clinch the Tigers' first Ivy title in 31 years. @DartFootball @PrincetonFTBL @NCAA_FCS pic.twitter.com/y5q1o8HhpE
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Two old friends playing spring football are getting time off because of positive tests.
Colgate has had Saturday's game against Lehigh and next week's contest against Holy Cross postponed. And New Hampshire, which was slated to host Delaware this week, will instead have the day off because of a positive test.
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The Wall Street Journal has a story headlined, College Admission Season Is Crazier Than Ever. That Could Change Who Gets In; By waiving SATs and ACTs, highly selective schools invited an unprecedented wave of applications, upending the traditional decision process
The story is behind the paywall but the DI Ticker offers this summary of part of the piece that may be of interest to Dartmouth folks:
Dartmouth Vice Provost of Enrollment/Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid Coffin notes the pandemic is forcing admissions offices to “walk the talk” when it comes to more broadly assessing applicants. Coffin also notes he’s conflicted about going test-optional. It becomes a moral question. I don’t want to admit someone who is going to struggle.” While it remains to be seen whether an increase in underrepresented student enrollment this cycle could tip the scales, the option to omit standardized scores allows students to be more strategic about how they apply.
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And finally, The Dartmouth recently had a story about a Dartmouth student from across the river in Norwich who went away to a boarding school before attending college so close to home. The headline, Hometown Blues; I don’t regret coming to Dartmouth, but sometimes I think about what could have been. (LINK)
Green Alert Take: While that story may be of minimal interest to some of you, it hits home with those of us at the BGA World Headquarters because not only did That Certain Dartmouth '14 go to college in her own hometown (Etna is part of Hanover) but she attended high school directly across the street from Memorial Field. She originally debated about attending college so close to home but ultimately decided if it was the best fit – in part because of the quarter system and the appeal of the foreign studies program – then it was the best fit. To this day she's thankful she had the chance to attend Dartmouth.
Green Alert Take II: During my years at the newspaper I wrote a few stories about local athletes who attended Dartmouth and what they told me resonated with TCD'14 when she was making her college choice. To a person, they said they certainly knew the town of Hanover and knew the buildings on campus while growing up, but they soon learned they didn't really know the college. That it was different once they became students.
To a person, they were glad they made the choice they did.
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EXTRA POINT
Without much happening in Ivy League sports it's been a bit of a thrash digging up material to keep BGA Daily going. Sometimes I wonder why I bother. It's certainly not for the money because, well, because if Griff the Wonder Dog was relying on clicks over there to the right he'd be starving.
So why keep it going? Believe it or not, the mistakes I make actually inspire me. Stay with me here.
As you may have noticed, over the past few weeks on particularly quiet days I've been pirating various lists of statistical leaders from both the Dartmouth and Ivy League football web pages. Some I can copy and paste and only have to do a modest reformat to make them readable. Others I have to retype completely, and in those cases I sometimes fail to see my typos and mistakes. That's in part because of my desire to 1) get this stuff posted ASAP and 2) get it the heck off my screen because I'm sick and tired of it.
Without an editor or proofreader sitting nearby, as was the case at the newspaper, my errors get out there. What's great is unlike at the newspaper, I can fix my mistakes. (There are probably some people who probably still chuckle at the front sports page I put out at my Pennsylvania paper that featured a huge headline about Dodgers' pitcher Fernando Venezuela. Ouch.)
So how do I know I blew it on BGA Daily? Crowd sourcing, Mandrake. (That's a Dr. Strangelove reference, kids.) Just about every time I make a glaring mistake I get an email from a reader pointing it out. Frequently those emails are apologetic, but they needn't be. They are a huge help.
And they are a welcome reminder that there are people out there actually looking at this drivel. It's nice to know that I'm not doing this in a vacuum. So keep those corrections commming ;-)
