His Tweets are protected but the information Delby Lemieux posts at the top of his Twitter account lists him as a "Dartmouth Football Commit." (LINK)
Lemieux is a 6-foot-4, 260-pound two-way lineman from Duxbury, Mass. He was included in a Boston Globe story this spring headlined, EMass high school football: 22 Players to Watch in Fall II season that referenced his "offer" from Dartmouth. (LINK)
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Sept. 25 Dartmouth football opponent Sacred Heart has been selected as the favorite to win the Northeast Conference this fall in a poll of the league coaches. (Sacred Heart release)
The Pioneers feature an NEC-best eight all-conference picks, led by All-America tailback Julius Chestnut. The poll results:
1. Sacred Heart (4 first-place votes)
T-2.(tie) Duquesne (2)
T-2.(tie) Central Connecticut State (1)
4. Bryant
5. Saint Francis
6. LIU
7. Wagner
(Merrimack has joined the conference but won't be eligible to play for the championship until 2023.)
Here's the headline from a story in The Analyst about the NEC race (LINK): In Chasing Northeast Conference Title, Top Trio Stand Out.
Green Alert Take: It's a sign of the times that five years ago I might not have been able to name all of the teams in the NEC and when I saw that headline in The Analyst I knew which three teams it was talking about.
Green Alert Take II: Have I told you how much I miss games against Patriot League teams?
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With the NEC media day yesterday the leagues represented by each of Dartmouth's nonconference opponents have released their polls:
• Valparaiso was chosen sixth in the 11-team Pioneer Football League.
• New Hampshire was chosen fifth in the 12-team Colonial Athletic Association.
• Sacred Heart was chosen first in the seven-team Northeast Conference.
The Ivy League's media day is tentatively scheduled for Aug. 16 and I hope the Ivy League can pull together something like this in advance of its football media day:
Looking forward to it. https://t.co/vThTsW7g4j
— Craig Haley (@CraigHaley) August 2, 2021
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OK, to be fair Dartmouth does have several games in coming seasons against Patriot League schools. The Big Green is scheduled to play both Lehigh and Colgate in 2023, and Fordham in 2024.
Speaking of Colgate, in May the Raiders announced that coach Dan Hunt was stepping down because of a "violation of university policy," and that associate head coach Stan Dakosty would serve as interim head coach this fall. Yesterday the school announced it was removing the interim label and naming Dakosty the permanent head coach. (LINK)
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The Los Angeles Times has a story about Isalys "Ice" Quinones, the Dartmouth graduate who started at center for the Puerto Rican women's basketball team in the Tokyo Olympics HERE.
EXTRA POINT
That Certain Dartmouth '14 finished off the Presidential Traverse in New Hampshire's White Mountains yesterday afternoon and after 18 miles and almost 9,000 feet of climbing called it the most arduous hike she's done this year. That from a former Pacific Crest Trail hiker who has been bagging Colorado 14,000-footers since spring.
It turns out that the route was less of a trail and more of a rock climb – and rock descent. She said she'd gladly make the climb twice rather than have to survive that kind of hairy descent again.
