BREAKING NEWS
This just in from Dartmouth athletics (LINK):
HANOVER, N.H. — The Dartmouth Athletics Department is restricting spectators at its athletics events through Jan. 18, 2022, in response to the rise of COVID-19 in the broader community after consulting with the college’s COVID Leadership Group and campus leadership.
“Based on the changes in policy the college announced for the start of the winter term, we are making decisions with the best interests of our student-athletes and staff — as well as the broader community — in mind,” said Interim Director of Athletics and Recreation Peter Roby ’79. “We will continue to work closely with the COVID Leadership Group and campus leadership to understand how subsequent policy changes will affect our operations. We remain committed to preserving as many athletic opportunities as possible.”
The following changes will be effective immediately through Jan. 18 (or as long as campus restrictions are in place):
Events will continue to be held as scheduled.
Events will not be open to the general public.
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Dartmouth Alumni Magazine is out with "Our Most Popular Stories of the Year" and of the eight stories mentioned no fewer than five are spun out of athletics. Interesting.
Those stories are:
• Bring on the Heathens; How two former football players chucked their jobs in full-time pursuit of the rock and roll dream. (READ IT HERE)
• Blood, Sweat, and Tears; Despite a life of hard knocks, Reggie Williams ’76 keeps on keeping on. (READ IT HERE)
• Dream Team; Agent Tony Godsick ’93 and tennis superstar Roger Federer join up to create a grand slam partnership. (READ IT HERE) (Editor's note: Godsick was a Dartmouth linebacker)
• Bravey Heart; With her memoir of heartbreak and hilarity, Olympian and movie-maker Alexi Pappas ’12 stays on track .(READ IT HERE)
• Missing Links: Hanover golf course, R.I.P.: A photo portfolio .(LINK)
And heck, as long as we're at it, the seventh of the eight stories also touches on Dartmouth's "outdoor" bent with fly fishing central to the piece. A Tragedy Runs Through It: Writer Paul Maclean ’28 lived hard, died young, and became the center of an acclaimed novel by his brother, Norman Maclean ’24. (READ IT HERE)
Oh, and for good measure the current Dartmouth Alumni Magazine has a bullets-point piece on former football great Swede Oberlander '26 HERE and catches up with former record-setting quarterback Brian Mann '02 on his appointment as William & Mary athletic director HERE.
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Julius Chestnut, the elite Sacred Heart running back who missed the Dartmouth game because of an injury last fall, has declared for the NFL draft. (LINK).
While that means the Big Green will miss Chestnut when it visits Sacred Heart on Sept. 24, the Pioneers will still have a standout back in Malik Grant, who filled in nicely for Chestnut last fall. He earned a spot on the STATS All-America third team after finishing fourth in the nation with 1,347 yards rushing. While he ran for 92 yards against Dartmouth on 24 carries his 3.8 yards per attempt were a season low for any game in which he carried the ball 10 or more times.
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EXTRA POINT
When I was a little kid my uncle in Denmark was interested either in importing toys from America or in copying them for the Danish market. I'm a little fuzzy on the details but I do recall my mother talking about buying toys here and sending them back home to her brother in Copenhagen for one purpose or the other.
Fortunately, it wasn't an entirely one-sided deal.
Each Christmas from the time I was very small I would receive sets of these little plastic blocks that locked together with a satisfying snap. I don't remember any other kids in the neighborhood who had them and they absolutely weren't available yet in toy stores. I do remember you most certainly didn't want to step on them in your socks.
Those blocks? The were called Legos.
I wonder if the company ever made it ;-)
(And oh how I wish instead of bringing an American toy to Denmark my uncle had enlisted my mother to secure the rights to bring that Danish toy to this side of the Atlantic!)
