Well Played, Dartmouth

Screen grab from a Dartmouth News posting last week:

Click the graphic to watch the video. Aaron Limonthas is featured throughout.

Former Dartmouth linebacker Aaron Limonthas '12, is one of the alumni interviewed in the video that accompanies the story. From the story (LINK):

Beginning with the undergraduate Class of 2026, students from families with annual household income of $125,000 or less and typical assets will qualify for full-tuition scholarships, as Dartmouth will replace loans with enhanced scholarship grants that do not have to be repaid.

And . . .

When Dartmouth realizes its ambitious financial aid aspirations, it will have eliminated loans from all of its financial aid awards and will be one of only six colleges or universities in the United States to offer need-blind admissions for all undergraduates. 

Now back to the video . . .

Aaron Limonthas is today the Senior Director, Diversity Equity & Inclusion at Shipt, Target's grocery delivery service. He was previously with Adidas, Reebok and Dropbox.

Find his old Dartmouth football bio HERE.

Green Alert Take: The announcement of what the story refers to as A Major Step in Reducing Student Indebtedness will be another arrow in the quiver of those who argue, sometimes loudly, that the Ivy League is being disingenuous when it says it plays non-scholarship football.

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Following up on Saturday's post about wins in which Dartmouth scored at least 50 points, today we take a look at the other side of that coin:

Opponents Score 50 Points Or More

Date	PF	Opponent	PA	Location
Oct. 25, 1884	0	Yale	113	Hanover
Oct. 27, 1888	0	Harvard	74	Cambridge
Oct. 30,1886	0	Harvard	70	Hanover
Sept. 27, 1986	12	New Hampshire	66	Hanover
Oct. 18, 1890	0	Harvard	64	Cambridge
Oct. 14, 1944	0	Notre Dame	64	Boston
Oct. 30, 1999	21	Harvard	63	Cambridge
Oct. 10, 1987	23	Holy Cross	62	Hanover
Oct. 9, 1954	6	Army	60	West Point
Oct. 29, 1921	7	Cornell	59	Ithaca
Sept. 23, 2006	14	New Hampshire	56	Hanover
Nov.10, 2007	35	Brown	56	Providence
Nov. 4, 1967	15	Yale	56	New Haven
Oct. 3, 1953	7	Navy	55	Annapolis
Sept, 22, 1984	24	Pennsylvania	55	Hanover
Oct. 12, 1985	28	Colgate	54	Hanover
Sept. 22, 2007	31	New Hampshire	52	Durham
Sept. 27, 2014	19	New Hampshire	52	Durham
Oct. 6, 2007	10	Yale	50	New Haven

 

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The FCS national championship game yesterday was not without drama.

Sam Houston State rallied past South Dakota State, 23-21, on a 10-yard TD pass with 16 seconds left in a game that featured a 74-minute weather delay due to rain, lightning and tornado warnings. The Bearkats finished the spring season with a 10-0 mark while the Jackrabbits closed out the spring at 8-2. ESPN has coverage with a video HERE.

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EXTRA POINT
The weather wasn't quite as crazy here yesterday as it was down in Texas, but it was pretty wild.

When we hopped in the car at 11 a.m. yesterday to visit friends at their lake house (hooray for the vaccine) it was 71 degrees. After a gorgeous morning there were clouds beginning to come over the mountain but there didn't seem to be any cause for concern.

We weren't more than 5-6 minutes up the road when a few drops started to fall. Within another minute the sky opened up. And then? Hail.

As the wipers cleared the windshield I looked at the thermometer in the car. It read 45 degrees.

Almost as quickly as it blew in the storm blew over.

Not much more than five minutes after the rain and hail stopped the thermometer in the car read 72 degrees. It had gone from 71 degrees to 45 to 72 in perhaps a dozen minutes.

Sure glad I wasn't on the golf course during the quick-hitting storm! (And I'm pretty sure That Certain Nittany Lion '16 wishes he could say the same thing ;-)