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"If a tree falls in THE WOODS and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

I put out a call for Saturday's Questions For Coach column yesterday and the silence was deafening.

Usually there's a little triage involved in pulling that column together because so many good questions flood in for Buddy Teevens. Not this time. I can count on one hand the number of questions that were submitted.

Once more with feeling: If you have a question you'd like me to pose to Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens, send it along. I'll ask it anonymously and post his response in Saturday's BGA Premium practice report.

If you've got a question, you can email it to BGA if you CLICK HERE.  Either that or send me an email with the subject line QuestionsForCoach, using the address most of you already have. Or you can use the contact form over there on the side.

Thanks!

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Curious how the Dartmouth head coach feels about FCS teams playing in the spring? Check out BGA Premium to get his thoughts on that as well as a look at Tuesday's practice. And remember, spring coverage is open to all this year.

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Following up on yesterday's posting about the highest scoring teams in Dartmouth history, today:

Lowest Scoring Dartmouth Teams

(Minimum 8 games)

Year	Coach	W	L	T	Pct.	PF	PA
1900	F.E. Jennings	2	4	2	.375	38	68
1945	Tuss McLaughry	1	6	1	.188	40	119
1944	Earl Brown	2	5	1	.312	57	142
1899	Bill Wurtenburg	2	7	0	.222	70	95
1906	Fred Folsom	6	3	1	.650	72	87
1917	Clarence Spears	5	3	0	.625	83	68
1909	W.H. Lillard	5	1	2	.750	88	18
1946	Tuss McLaughry	3	6	0	.333	91	194
1955	Bob  Blackman	3	6	0	.333	92	120
1959	Bob  Blackman	5	3	1	.611	96	106
1908	John C. O'Connor	6	1	1	.812	97	17
1960	Bob  Blackman	5	4	0	.556	98	66
1979	Joe Yukica	4	4	1	.500	98	86
1892	No Coach	5	3	0	.625	102	146
1947	Tuss McLaughry	4	4	1	.500	102	127
1974	Jake Crouthamel	3	6	0	.333	103	115
1902	Walter McCornack	6	2	1	.722	105	39
2004	John Lyons	1	9	0	.100	108	205
1987	Buddy Teevens	2	8	0	.200	110	302
1922	Jack Cannell	6	3	0	.667	111	55
1894	Wallace Moyle	5	4	0	.556	112	80
1952	Tuss McLaughry	2	7	0	.222	116	198
1951	Tuss McLaughry	4	5	0	.444	121	152
1954	Tuss McLaughry	3	6	0	.333	121	250
1896	Bill Wurtenburg	5	2	1	.688	122	84

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The Analyst, nee Stats Perform, nee STATS has named its 2020-21 FCS All-America team and Dartmouth is scheduled to play against a first-team, All-America running back on Sept. 25.

Chosen for that honor is Sacred Heart tailback Julius Chestnut, a 6-foot-1, 215-pound junior from Bowie, Md. The Northeast Conference rookie of the year as a freshman, Chestnut ran for 1,495 yards and 11 touchdowns in 12 games as a sophomore and this spring had 855 rushing yards on 124 carries in just five games. That marked a jump from 124.6 yards per game on the ground a year ago to 171.0 yards per game this spring, with nine touchdowns.

Chestnut is one of two finalists for the Walter Payton Award, presented to the FCS offensive player of the year.

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The McManus brothers – Tim, Ryan and Danny – helped of course, but for a few years Minnesota players had an outsized presence on the Dartmouth football roster. The 2015 Ivy League champions had no fewer than six players from the state.

This year? Only linebacker Thomas Hennessy comes from Minnesota.

If Dartmouth wants to schedule Pioneer Football League teams and get back on the recruiting radar in Ivy League-football-rich Minnesota it will be able to do both with news that the tradition-rich University of St. Thomas football program is now officially headed to the non-scholarship PFL. From a St. Thomas release (LINK):

A historic decision has officially cleared the path for Minnesota’s largest private university – the University of St. Thomas – to become the first program in the NCAA’s modern era to reclassify directly from Division III to Division I college athletics 

 

At its meetings today, the NCAA’s Division I Council approved a motion granting St. Thomas the ability to make the unprecedented jump. With the decision, the Tommies officially accepted invitations to join the Summit League athletics conference, as well as the Pioneer Football League and Women’s Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA).

The University of St. Thomas has more than 10,000 undergraduate and grad students, with the main campus in St. Paul. The Tommies football team, which finished as national runner-up in Division III in 2012 and 2015, went 8-2 in the most recent season. They play in O'Shaughnessy Stadium, which has a capacity of 5,025 but has held as many as 12,483 for a game against rival St. John's. The Tommies' 2019 game against St. John's drew 19,500 fans to Allianz Field in St. Paul.

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Speaking of talented players out of Minnesota, former Harvard offensive guard Eric Wilson of Minnetrista and Ivy feeder Benilde-St. Margaret's, is wrapping up in Cambridge and will report to Penn State as a grad transfer at week's end. (LINK)

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Good news on the Dartmouth COVID-19 Dashboard front. There are no active cases among students and just two among faculty and staff. (LINK)

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EXTRA POINT
Cold is probably overstating it so I'll go with uncomfortable. At yesterday’s football practice the temperature was in the low 50s, the wind was brutal and it was a relief turning the heat on in the car on the drive back to our Vermont hillside home.

We had a week in April when the temperature averaged almost 71 degrees but we haven’t sniffed that since spring practice began.

Traditionally Dartmouth spring practice ends early in the first week of May and by then I’ve spent at least half of the practices in flip-flops. Not this year. Not yet.

The forecast shows temps in the 68-70-degree range from tomorrow through the end of next week. I'd like another six degrees or so but I might finally get my “Go Aheads” out in the coming days anyway.