The Dartmouth athletics website has introduced Moments, "individual video highlight clips of numerous athletes who compete or have competed for the college across 14 different sports." Find a release about the new functionality HERE.
This is a look at the football Moments index page:
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Continuing with the 2000-2019 Dartmouth football numbers of the past few days, today's chart shows the average points for, points against and point differential along with records of the Big Green since 2000:
|
Year |
W-L |
PF |
PA |
+/- |
|
2000 |
2-8 |
15.5 |
29.0 |
-13.5 |
|
2001 |
1-8 |
16.3 |
23.3 |
-7.0 |
|
2002 |
3-7 |
15.1 |
20.0 |
-4.9 |
|
2003 |
5-5 |
16.1 |
19.8 |
-3.7 |
|
2004 |
1-9 |
6.9 |
11.9 |
-5.0 |
|
2005 |
2-8 |
6.4 |
16.2 |
-9.8 |
|
2006 |
2-8 |
10.5 |
14.6 |
-4.1 |
|
2007 |
3-7 |
19.7 |
22.3 |
-2.6 |
|
2008 |
0-10 |
7.7 |
22.3 |
-14.6 |
|
2009 |
2-8 |
11.8 |
17.0 |
-5.2 |
|
2010 |
6-4 |
17.3 |
15.4 |
+1.9 |
|
2011 |
5-5 |
14.5 |
15.0 |
-0.5 |
|
2012 |
6-4 |
19.3 |
16.6 |
+2.7 |
|
2013 |
6-4 |
21.4 |
12.4 |
+9.0 |
|
2014 |
8-2 |
23.5 |
11.2 |
+12.3 |
|
2015 |
9-1 |
17.4 |
7.7 |
+9.7 |
|
2016 |
4-6 |
12.4 |
16.5 |
-4.1 |
|
2017 |
8-2 |
18.0 |
14.1 |
+3.9 |
|
2018 |
9-1 |
22.3 |
10.6 |
+11.7 |
|
2019 |
9-1 |
21.1 |
10.8 |
+10.3 |
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Not surprisingly, Dartmouth gets a brief mention in a Washington Post story headlined, Colleges cut sports to save money amid the pandemic. Then came the Title IX lawsuits. (LINK)
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The Daily Pennsylvanian has a story headlined Penn Athletics Moves Into Ivy Phase Four; Local Competition Approved To Begin March 27 (LINK).
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Rutgers Today headline:
Rutgers to Require COVID-19 Vaccine for Students; The university will require all students to be vaccinated before arriving on campus in the fall. (LINK)
Inside Higher Ed has a story about Rutgers' decision HERE.
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Joe Vancisin '44, a guard on the Dartmouth basketball team that lost to Utah in overtime in the 1944 NCAA championship game, and who was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011, passed away this week at age 98. Vancisin was head coach at Yale for 19 years, winning three Ivy League titles, and then served as the National Association of Basketball Coaches executive director for 17 years.
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EXTRA POINT
We received the Consumer Reports annual auto issue recently and I was surprised and disappointed to learn that the Honda Fit had been discontinued. I have a Fit hatchback and still remember what inspired me to test drive the car, which gives me around 40 miles to the gallon on the highway. It was when I pulled into Dartmouth's Berry Center parking lot to cover a football practice and parked next to one. I peeked inside the Fit, which had its back seats folded flat, and I was absolutely shocked at how much cargo space there was inside such a little car. I remember thinking, "I could sleep in there!" (Not that I was going to ;-)
When my old car was on its last legs (last wheels?) we went to the Honda dealer to test drive a Fit and afterward asked if they had any used Fits for sale. The dealer told us they almost never have them on the lot because people love them so much that they keep them forever. He said when they did get one in it would always disappear quickly.
Now the still-popular Fit itself is disappearing, although not in the rest of the world according to Car and Driver magazine. (LINK)
I'd like my next car to be 100 percent electric and I look forward to that. I just hope my little red Fit stays on the road until electric car prices come down and their range goes up.
