The charts posted on BGA Daily earlier this week included a listing of Dartmouth players who would have been on the field last fall but have chosen to graduate rather than return for a bonus season in 2021.
Several emailers suggested that it would be interesting to also post a list of players who were members of the last Dartmouth team to take the field – the 2019 Ivy League champions – to see who has moved on since we last saw the Big Green in action.
To that end, here are the seniors from the 2019 team who will certainly be missed:
Quarterback – Jared Gerbino, Jake Pallotta
Running Back – Vito Penza, Caylin Parker
Wide Receiver – Hunter Hagdorn, Drew Estrada, Brandon Hester
Tight End – Connor Rempel
Offensive Line – Zach Sammartino, Tanner Aiono, Ben Culmer, John Lass, Anders Peterson
Defensive Line – Jackson Perry, David Chalmers, Seth Simmer, Jordan McGriff
Defensive End – Niko Lalos, TJ Simpson
Linebacker – Jack Traynor, Nigel Alexander, Colton Forster, Ross Andreasik, Andrew Lemkuil
Defensive Back – DJ Avery, Ryan Roegge, Isiah Swann
Punter – Davis Brief
LongSnapper: Grant Jaffe
Green Alert Take: The nice thing about developing a winning program is that there's always a good amount of talent in the pipeline. The bad thing is you bid farewell to some very good players each spring. Read that list down again and you'll see that was certainly the case after the 2019 season.
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Talented players go and talented players take their place. The search for more of the latter picks up steam this weekend with the long-awaited return of the Buddy Teevens Football Camp bringing a good number of Ivy League hopefuls to Hanover:
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The Ivy League football media day is set for Aug. 16 with Dartmouth football practice slated to begin later that week.
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From a Richmond Times-Dispatch story about former Dartmouth quarterback Brian Mann's introductory press conference after being named William & Mary athletic director:
Mann’s large quarterback hands — better with which to grip rain-soaked or frigid footballs — are unmissable, and if he moves on from athletics administration, Mann could make a living as a public speaker. Standing at a lectern, Mann placed prepared notes in front of him, but rarely glanced down while hitting all the right notes in a polished presentation that paid homage to the harmony of education and athletics.
“What you saw today is actually who Brian is. The more you dig, the more you hear that’s authentically him,” said Jeremy Martin, the interim AD Mann succeeds and the co-chair of the search committee. “Every time you dug a little deeper, you go, ‘This feels more and more like a William & Mary person,’ until ultimately, he became the William & Mary person.”
Dartmouth gets a few mentions in the story:
Mann majored in history and loves William & Mary’s lengthy story that begins with a 1693 founding. At his last two professional stops — California, Berkeley, located near Oakland and San Francisco, and Rice, in Houston — he missed the relationships built in tight-knit spots, such as Hanover, N.H., Dartmouth’s home, and Williamsburg.
When Mann speaks about “a transformational education that can change lives,” he refers to Dartmouth, which he says changed his life, and William & Mary, which he believes does the same.
After apologizing for not having the time to thank everyone, Mann mentioned two people from his Dartmouth days:
Now flash forward once again. Driving down the interstate the other day I looked to my left and in a gravel parking lot in front of a tired-looking business that sells lawn tractors and snow blowers I thought I spotted what I thought was a Rialta with a piece of pink paper hanging from the rear view mirror suggesting it was for sale. VW hasn't made the Rialta since 2005 and like our Westy they have become increasingly rare in the east.
