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I am by no means accomplished at making videos (as you'll soon discover), but another impossible day digging up Dartmouth football news is all the excuse I need to share these clips I shot at Saturday's practice. The video was taken from the front row of the visiting grandstand and first appeared along with practice coverage on BGA Premium yesterday evening.
“It’s not without trepidation that Hughes sets sail on his next career voyage, but when he talks about it being a challenge, it’s difficult to think that he will not succeed the same way he has at his numerous coaching stops along the way. He’s had an influence on many young men’s lives during time at Doane, Nebraska, Wisconsin-Whitewater and Dartmouth as well as 10 years as head coach at Princeton.”
BGA Take: It's hard to believe that anyone who has gotten to know Roger Hughes would disagree. I feel lucky to have been able to call him a friend.
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The FCS national championship game is set with Sam Houston State facing South Dakota State one week from today at 2 p.m. Eastern in Frisco, Texas.
No. 1 seed South Dakota State (8-1) routed Delaware (7-1) in one of yesterday's semifinals, 33-3. In the other it was No. 2 seed Sam Houston (9-0) rallied to beat No. 3 seed James Madison in a shootout, 38-35.
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EXTRA POINT
This is almost Twilight Zone stuff.
Granted, I haven't been driving my car much in the past year, but when I do I usually plug my iPod Touch in to get a charge and perhaps listen to bits and pieces of a podcast.
Driving to Hanover Tuesday afternoon for Dartmouth practice I plugged in the iPod (which I use for recording interviews) and it started playing through the car speaker. On its own.
And it wasn't a podcast or a song that I was hearing.
It was an audio recording of the John Grisham book about a journeyman quarterback joining an Italian football team, Playing for Pizza, which someone had given me a few years back. Here's the weird thing: I had totally forgotten it was on the iPod, and in all the dozens and dozens of times I've hopped in the car to go for my daily hike or to get our mail the book had never before started playing on its own. It waited until Dartmouth returned to the field for the first time in 18 months.
Oh, and then there's this. On the drive home from practice yesterday the Parma Panthers were playing another Italian team with three Americans, and one of them was a safety from . . . wait for it . . . Dartmouth.
You can't make this stuff up!
