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This went up on YouTube several days ago and I honestly don't remember whether it had been posted earlier and referenced here before. Doesn't matter. It's so good it deserves to be here a second time if that's the case:

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UPDATED – Here are the jersey numbers Dartmouth's freshmen are scheduled to wear this spring. With changes due to graduation and normal roster movement there will likely be some adjustments but this is what I've got for the freshmen ahead of the anticipated May 1 start of spring practice. Heights and weights are per Dartmouth.

No.	Name	P	Ht	Wt	Last School	Hometown
5	Jack Dyett	TE	6-5	210	Brentwood School	Los Angeles, Calif.
6	Paxton Scott	WR	6-1	185	St. Mark's	Dallas, Texas
8	Jack Noonan	RB	5-9	185	Weston	Weston, Mass.
8	Nic Sani	TE	6-6	245	Central Catholic	Turlock, Calif.
10	Cam Maddox	S	6-2	195	Cheshire Acad. (Conn.)	Monroe, N.C.
13	Carr Urschel	LB	6-4	200	St. Mark's	Dallas, Texas
13	Wade Williams	QB	6-2	180	Brentwood School	Brentwood, Tenn.
16	Tyson McCloud	NB	6-1	195	North Broward Prep	Coconut Creek, Fla.
18	Devon Lingle	QB	6-2	205	Duncan U. Fletcher	Neptune Beach, Fla.
18	Onye Onuoha	CB	6-1	200	Green Valley Ranch	Denver, Colo.
19	Jace Henry	QB	6-4	235	Lathrop	Fairbanks, Alaska
20	Vachon Raye	CB	5-11	165	Booker T. Washington	Atlanta, Ga.
23	Isaac Boston	WR	5-10	175	Springfield Central	Springfield, Mass.
26	Joey Richmond	RB	5-11	210	Glenbard West	Glen Ellyn, Ill.
31	Tevita Moimoi	RB	6-0	210	Sacred Heart Prep	Menlo Park, Calif.
34	Tyler Green	RB	5-10	210	Mill Valley	Lenexa, Kan.
36	Leonard St. Gourdin	S	6-3	190	Deerfield Academy	Malden, Mass.
42	Ross Parrish	TE	6-4	230	Anderson	Cincinnati, Ohio
46	Dylan Lacroix	DE	6-2	200	Park Vista Community	Lake Worth, Fla.
50	Trevon Erickson	LB	6-2	225	Kentwood	Covington, Wash.
57	Dario Arazi	DE	6-6	240	Brooklyn Tech	Brooklyn, N.Y.
59	Gannon McCorkle	DE	6-4	235	Philips Exeter	Odenton, Md.
60	Nicholas Schwitzgebel	OL	6-3	280	St. Ignatius	Cleveland, Ohio
63	Kyle Brown	OL	6-4	270	Marcellus	Marcellus, N.Y.
73	Thomas Hartnett	OL	6-4	305	Central Catholic	Pittsburgh, Pa.
76	Joshua Balara	OL	6-2	290	Dallas	Dallas, Pa.
77	Ethan Sipe	OL	6-5	260	Ensworth School	Nashville, Tenn.
85	Jarmone Sutherland	WR	5-11	175	Isidore Newman School	New Orleans, La.
99	Marquist Allen	DT	6-4	265	Davis Senior	Woodland, Calif.

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A little news out of a 2021 Dartmouth opponent and a traditional Big Green opponent.

Sacred Heart, which is slated to open Dartmouth's home season on Sept. 25, can boast one of the 16 finalists for the FCS Walter Payton Offensive Player of the Year in tailback Julius Chestnut. Heading into the NCAA playoffs in four games he has run 93 times for 717 yards (7.7 yards per carry) with eight touchdowns, and has eight receptions for 171 yards and three touchdowns. The winner of the Payton, presented by Stats Perform, will be announced May 15.

Traditional opponent Holy Cross has lost one of its greatest promoters with the passing of broadcaster Bob Fouracre, who called football and basketball games for the school for 48 years. He was 83 years old.

Fouracre had a wicked sense of humor, as an anecdote with a Dartmouth tie in a Worcester Telegram appreciation recalled. From the piece (LINK):

Even Holy Cross football great Gordie Lockbaum, who worked with Fouracre for several years on radio, was not immune to Fouracre’s barbs.

“He would always bust my chops about something,” Lockbaum recalled fondly, “like my six-touchdown game at Dartmouth. He would say, ‘Yeah, but they were all runs of 3 and 4 and 5 yards.’ He could get away with it. It was fun.”

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With news that some of the storied soccer franchises in Europe are going to form a Super League, Associated Press writer Ralph Russo imagines what schools would be in an NCAA football super league HERE.

If you don't want to click through and scroll down Ralph's story, I'll save you some time. Here's his Super League:

Alabama
Auburn
Clemson
Florida
Georgia
LSU
Michigan
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Oklahoma
Oregon
Penn State
Southern California
Texas
UCLA

Green Alert Take: Hard to argue with most of those schools. Maybe the only stretch is Oregon. Pull the Ducks out and who makes it? Miami?

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EXTRA POINT
About the only editorializing I usually do on this site is about the Ivy League's refusal to join the real world and allow its football teams to do what every other Ivy sport can do and participate in the NCAA championship. Today is a special one for me so I apologize in advance for what you are about to read.

As of today it has been the required 14 days since my second Moderna shot and I can consider myself fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Not that anything is going to change much or that I feel invincible. Far from it. I'm still going to be wearing a mask in public. I will continue social distancing. And trust me, I have no intention of being in any mosh pits of humanity. But it still feels good to have done what I can to protect myself, my family and, importantly, to protect others.

Mrs. BGA was vaccinated early at the hospital and That Certain Dartmouth '14 got her second dose several weeks ago. That Certain Nittany Lion '16 lucked into his first shot yesterday after initially being disappointed with an appointment for next month when he went online at 6 a.m. yesterday, the first day his age group here in Vermont became eligible.

TCNL '16 told us last week about a friend who said he doesn't trust the vaccine, and the news periodically brings us sound bites from others who feel the same way. It makes me want to reach through the TV and try to shake some common sense into those people.

As far as we know there has been one death in this country potentially attributed to a vaccination. There have been, as of this morning, 564,292 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the United States.

I simply can't understand how people can be so scared of something that has been shot into arms 212 million times in this country with ONE death that they are willing  to risk contracting a disease that has killed more than HALF A MILLION Americans and ravaged many, many more lives. It makes absolutely no sense.

End rant.