Lone Pine Sighting

Dartmouth will be wearing an alternate helmet design Friday night against 4-1 Columbia. It features the Lone Pine on the side, "The Woods" on the back, and "1769" in the front. Here's how the introduction of the helmet was received:

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With the UNH postgame press conference on Zoom and a push to get a bunch of Dartmouth voices in BGA Premium stories, what the New Hampshire side had to say was absent. From the UNH website (LINK):

UNH coach Sean McDonnell:

"That's a really good football team. I'm not surprised they were 30-4, now 31-4, over their last three or four years. We've got to go back, take a good look at what we're doing, try to see what we've got to correct and get ready for a heckuva Elon team."

And . . .

"I thought that we got beat, manhandled by a really good football team. Watching the game from the sideline and the field, they played downhill on us the whole game. They ran the ball extremely well, whether it was the running backs, the quarterback, then they did a great job of play action. They formationed us. They did a good job." 

And this from running back Dylan Laube:

They were more physical than we expected on both sides of the ball. Penalties killed us. They were just the better team today." 

Some highlights:

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The Dartmouth has a follow HERE and the Valley News game story is HERE.

The University of New Hampshire school paper has a story HERE.

Senior tight end Robbie Mangas holds the Granite Bowl trophy, which is neither a bowl nor was properly engraved after Dartmouth's 2016 win over New Hampshire.

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Also from "The D" comes a first-person piece by Josh Greene headlined Inside the Hash Marks: The Kick Is Good; Dartmouth long snapper Josh Greene ’23 reflects on the last-second field goal to send the Big Green’s Homecoming game to overtime. (LINK)

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From Craig Haley's Twitter:

The @IvyLeague has three teams with 5-0 records (Dartmouth, Harvard and Princeton) for the first time since 1968 (Harvard, Penn and Yale). The last FCS conference to have a trio start 5-0 was @CAAFootball in 2009 (New Hampshire, Richmond and eventual national champ Villanova).

And this from Haley's The Analyst site:

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And finally, with the season at the midway point and only Ivy League games remaining, this is a good time to open the floor to Questions For Coach from BGA readers. As usual, the Q&A featuring your questions will be posted for BGA Premium subscribers initially and then opened up to others who submit questions. 

The plan is to post the story for subscribers Wednesday night so by all means, don't wait. Send those questions today ;-)

To ask a question, email BGA by CLICKING HERE. That will address an email with the subject line, QuestionsForCoach.

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EXTRA POINT

With a little wind and a little rain the leaves have really started to come down. With very few reds this fall, it has not been a great foliage season. Here's a so-so shot behind our property yesterday afternoon. It should be clickable if you want to get a better look: