Highlights from the last undefeated Dartmouth football team:
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Dartmouth defensive line coach Duane Brooks figures prominently in a Sports Illustrated story about New York Giants defensive coordinator Patrick Graham. The story includes this anecdote from a time when Brooks went off on him (italics are mine):
“I’m never going to be like that,” (Graham) thinks, meaning a coach capable of such rage. He believes his future lies in the CIA, with reasonable bosses.
But then Brooks puts him back in, and he plays beyond his capabilities, making tackles, dropping a back behind the line. He dislocates his shoulder the same day, unfortunately. But that is how, in the same afternoon, he registers both the apex and end of his college career, despite—and because of—one very angry, soon-to-be lifelong mentor. What a trifecta. He figures football has ended for him that day on that field.
But Brooks will float a silly notion, one that makes him laugh.
“You’re going to be a coach.”
Find the full SI story HERE.
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How much has football changed since the inception of the Ivy League in 1956? The 1994 Penn team is a unicorn in the list of the 10 stingiest defenses in conference history.
LOWEST POINTS AGAINST IN IVY LEAGUE HISTORY
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1970 |
Dartmouth |
9-0 |
42 |
4.7 |
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1964 |
Princeton |
9-0 |
53 |
5.9 |
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1962 |
Dartmouth |
9-0 |
57 |
6.3 |
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1966 |
Harvard |
8-1 |
60 |
6.7 |
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1965 |
Harvard |
8-1 |
62 |
6.9 |
|
1960 |
Dartmouth |
6-3 |
66 |
7.3 |
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1974 |
Yale |
6-1 |
67 |
7.4 |
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1994 |
Penn |
9-0 |
68 |
7.6 |
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1965 |
Dartmouth |
9-0 |
71 |
7.9 |
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1959 |
Penn |
7-0-1 |
73 |
8.1 |
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1960 |
Yale |
9-0 |
73 |
8.1 |
By way of contrast, the 1992 Dartmouth team is the unicorn in a list of the 10 highest-scoring teams in conference history:
HIGHEST SCORING IN IVY LEAGUE HISTORY
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2018 |
Princeton |
10-0 |
470 |
47.0 |
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2013 |
Princeton |
8-2 |
437 |
43.7 |
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2014 |
Yale |
8-2 |
411 |
41.1 |
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2012 |
Harvard |
8-2 |
394 |
39.4 |
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2019 |
Yale |
9-1 |
387 |
38.7 |
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2000 |
Brown |
7-3 |
375 |
37.5 |
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2011 |
Harvard |
9-1 |
374 |
37.4 |
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2013 |
Harvard |
9-1 |
371 |
37.1 |
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2005 |
Brown |
9-1 |
368 |
36.8 |
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1992 |
Dartmouth |
8-2 |
364 |
36.4 |
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2015 |
Harvard |
9-1 |
364 |
36.4 |
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EXTRA POINT
With the second Dartmouth intrasquad scrimmage at 10 this morning I had to head to the mountain earlier than normal for my daily hike and found it was still pitch black when I got to the trailhead. Last evening Mrs. BGA and I grabbed a bite at a food truck in the little town just south of here and by the time we finished eating it was dark.
Football season is a reminder that the season is changing, but it's not the only one.
