Here we go again.
Every year the late, great Dartmouth sports information director Kathy Slattery-Phillips, a top New Hampshire amateur golfer, would nominate Arnold Palmer to receive an honorary degree at Dartmouth graduation and she pledged to keep doing it until the college poobahs finally got so tired of hearing from her that they threw up their hands and brought Arnie to town. Alas . . .
This is the windmill I'm tilting at: The Tussle. The graphic above ought to give you a clue what it's about but I'll reprise part of what I've written in the past to refresh your memory:
While most message board posters and emailers understandably lament the end of the Week 10 series with Princeton it's not going to come back. Now it's Brown, so deal with it.
To drum up a little excitement the game needs a nickname. You know, like the Red River Shootout (Texas-Oklahoma), The Backyard Brawl (Pitt-West Virginia), The Civil War (Oregon-Oregon State), The Rivalry (Lehigh-Lafayette) and my favorite, The Brawl of the Wild (Montana-Montana State).
With that in mind the Dartmouth-Brown series should be called The Tussle in honor of a man important to the programs of both schools as well as the sport of college football.
Why? Because College Football Hall of Famer Tuss McLaughry served as head coach at Brown from 1926-1940 and then moved on to Dartmouth from 1941-1954.
And because the man called they called Tuss was much more than just a coach.
Consider that, in recognition of his service as the longtime secretary-treasurer of the American Football Coaches Association, the AFCA each year presents the Tuss McLaughry Award, which is "given to a distinguished American (or Americans) for the highest distinction in service to others."
Among the winners since the award was instituted in 1964 have been Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Bob Hope, Lyndon B. Johnson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Reverend Billy Graham, Pete Rozelle, Gen. Chuck Yeager, Rudy Giuliani and Tom Osborne. The 2019 award went to Hall of Fame broadcaster Verne Lundquist. (LINK)
So goodby Princeton, hello Brown, and welcome to The Tussle.
This is from an older posting as well:
Dartmouth and Brown have a pretty fair series going. Until Dartmouth swept the last three meetings the teams had split the previous 30 games down the middle with 15 wins apiece. There have been some real barn burners in the past few years including last November when it took a dramatic comeback and an interception in the end zone in the final minute for the Big Green to avoid a devastating loss to Brown that would have cost the team the Ivy League championship.
How close have the recent games been? A lot have been very close. Here's how the games have gone since 2009:
2009 Brown 14, Dartmouth 7 (overtime)
2010 Brown 35, Dartmouth 28
2011 Dartmouth 21, Brown 16
2012 Brown 28, Dartmouth 24
2013 Dartmouth 24, Brown 20
2014 Dartmouth 44, Brown 21
2015 Dartmouth 34, Brown 18
2016 Brown 24, Dartmouth 21
2017 Dartmouth 33, Brown 10
2018 Dartmouth 49, Brown 7
2019 Dartmouth 29, Brown 23
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For a little look at what Dartmouth is up against Saturday, check out the 2019 highlights from Brown quarterback EJ Perry, the Boston College transfer, HERE.
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The Dartmouth Class of '22 celebrated the annual senior dinner last week. Here's a look at the group.
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The college has posted a series of gorgeous campus photos under the headline, Campus From the Air, in Full Fall Glory; From Memorial Field to the river, see a drone’s-eye view of late fall in Hanover. This screengrab is from the web page. Some of these shots would make beautiful screensavers! CLICK HERE to view the series of photos.
Instead of hiking I walked the mile-and-a-half or so to our one-room post office yesterday and spotted several of these mini stop signs along the way. They were just put up, as they are each winter, to alert snowmobilers of road crossings. VAST, the Vermont Association of Snow Travelers, maintains and grooms more than 5,000 miles of trails in this little state. This stop sign is for a trail that crosses our neighbor-up-the-hill's property.
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| There's even an advance warning for those going a l-i-t-t-l-e too fast ;-) |
