After a flurry at the start, subscriptions to BGA Premium are continuing to trickle in. Several things I should share.
First, if you are a returning subscriber and sent a check or PayPal, you don't have to do anything else. You are good to go for the 2021 season. Your password from 2019 will continue to work.
If you are a new subscriber you should have received an email with instructions on how to complete the sign-up process and to validate your email. If you've taken care of those things, you are good to go as well.
Second, although it was a very difficult year here at the BGA World Headquarters, I chose not to raise the premium fee again this year despite numerous emails from subscribers telling me I should. Instead, I included a note that if you appreciate BGA Daily and the paid service you are welcome to include a little extra in your check. Your response has been overwhelming. Beyond helping make up for a lost year, that has been kind of my Sally Field, "You like BGA, You Really Like BGA," moment. Believe me, it means a great deal to me. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have allowed me to keep this thing going since 2005.
One final note for those who have not renewed or signed up. Spring practice coverage on BGA Premium was open to everyone, but when the preseason opponent preview series begins in the middle of August you will need a current password to access the site.
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The latest video posted out of the Dartmouth football office:
The Dartmouth women's basketball team had a critical game at Harvard – it might have been a playoff for the title, but I can't remember – and the athletic department had commissioned a fan bus to bring a cheering section to the game. At one point the fellow in question, who had learning issues, stood in front of the crowd and began a call and response spelling of Dartmouth.
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As I continue to work on opponent previews I've had to pull together records not yet updated for the much-anticipated 2021 Ivy League football record book. Here are conference records that show 1) Penn has gotten the most bang for its buck with regard to titles per Ivy League win, and 2) Harvard has had a very un-Crimsonlike five-year run:
SINCE START OF FORMAL IVY LEAGUE PLAY (1956)
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Won |
Lost |
Tied |
Pct. |
Titles |
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Harvard |
277 |
162 |
9 |
.628 |
17 |
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Dartmouth |
265 |
174 |
9 |
.602 |
19 |
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Yale |
258 |
182 |
8 |
.584 |
16 |
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Princeton |
244 |
199 |
5 |
.550 |
12 |
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Penn |
242 |
202 |
4 |
.545 |
18 |
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Cornell |
189 |
254 |
5 |
.427 |
3 |
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Brown |
185 |
256 |
7 |
.421 |
4 |
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Columbia |
106 |
337 |
5 |
.242 |
1 |
CONFERENCE RECORDS LAST FIVE YEARS
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Won |
Lost |
Pct. |
Titles |
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Dartmouth |
24 |
11 |
.686 |
2 |
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Princeton |
22 |
13 |
.629 |
2 |
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Penn |
21 |
14 |
.600 |
2 |
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Yale |
21 |
14 |
.600 |
2 |
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Harvard |
20 |
15 |
.571 |
1 |
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Columbia |
13 |
22 |
.371 |
0 |
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Cornell |
11 |
24 |
.314 |
0 |
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Brown |
7 |
28 |
.200 |
0 |
Headline from story on the Dartmouth athletics website (LINK):
Year-End Fundraising Challenge Pushes FY21 Giving Total Past $6.3M
The sixth annual Varsity Alumni Challenge proved to be among the most productive ever
And from the story:
Football once again raised over $1 million to lead all athletic programs.
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EXTRA POINT
When we decided to move several year ago, our first thought was to find a waterfront home. A close second was a house with views.
As you've seen here numerous times in photographs I've posted over the past couple of years, we ended up in a house with a view.
On most days we have gorgeous views of Mount Moosilauke. Yesterday not only couldn't we see Moosilauke but we couldn't see peaks just across the Connecticut River. And not because it was cloudy.
The culprit, as the TV meteorologists told us, was the Western wildfires.
