From the Dartmouth football office in advance of today's home opener:
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There's no real information about the opponent but the local daily has a story about Dartmouth kicking off the home season against Sacred Heart HERE.
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You couldn't ask for a nicer day to begin the season on Memorial Field with the temperature at kickoff expected to be 72 degrees and little chance of rain.
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The Big Green will open its Ivy League season Friday in a nationally televised game at Penn. Harvard started conference play last night against Brown in a game televised on ESPNU and impressed:
Harvard 49, Brown 17
The Crimson (2-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) scored 35 points in the second quarter and limited the Bears (0-2, 0-1) to a field goal until the fourth quarter as Harvard coach Tim Murphy passed Yale legend Carm Cozza for most wins by an Ivy League coach. Murphy, who has been at Harvard since the 1994 season, is 180-81 with the Crimson.
A crowd of 20,748 watched as Aaron Shampklin ran for 125 yards and two touchdowns on just 13 carries to pace Harvard, which had 243 yards on the ground and 208 through the air. The Crimson, which opened with an overpowering win at Georgetown last week, has outscored its first two opponents, 93-26.
EJ Perry completed 34-of-45 passes for 346 yards and two touchdowns with one interception for Brown, which netted just 14 yards rushing.
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Sad news out of Pittsburgh where a prominent Dartmouth alum has passed away. From the Post-Gazette (STORY):
Freddie Fu, a pioneering orthopaedic surgeon who founded the sports medicine program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and gained a global reputation for developing procedures to repair the knees, shoulders and Achilles tendons of athletes and ballet dancers — as well as people with non-sports related injuries — died Friday evening at a UPMC hospice facility.
He had been treated for melanoma and a bleeding kidney in the weeks before his death. He was 70.
Fu graduated from Dartmouth in 1974.
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EXTRA POINT
Many mornings when we lived on the shoulder of Moose Mountain the sky would be Carolina blue and we would look down at the valley feeling a little smug that we knew it was going to be a beautiful day, but the folks driving through the soup down in Hanover with their headlights on did not.
Although we have great views here at our Vermont hillside and are at about 1,100 feet elevation the shoe is on the other foot now. The sun came up while I was hiking the trail this morning and it looked like a bluebird of a day from the peak. Here's what I saw when I got back home. It's still all I can see out my window as I type this:
