With the traditional Signing Day tomorrow the Dartmouth recruit list is growing.
Tweeting his intention to continue his athletic and academic career at Dartmouth is 6-foot-3, 230-pound Nico Schwikal, a linebacker from Berlin, Germany who developed his game at Weatherford High School in Texas and last year as a prep standout at Taft School.
Lets go! The hardest worker and best leader! @NSchwikal https://t.co/lir2IFb83z
— Charlie Symonds (@CharlieSymonds4) January 31, 2022
A first-team All-NEPSAC linebacker, Schwikal chose Dartmouth over offers from UConn, UMass, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Fordham, Bryant and a PWO at SMU.
Find a story out of Europe about his UConn offer HERE.
Green Alert Take: Schwikal joins promising offensive lineman Konstantin Spörk as Dartmouth takes another step toward developing a German pipeline. Sophomore OL Nicholas Schwitzgebel doesn't quite count . . . but his dad is from Germany and he's spent time there ;-)
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Daniel Haughton, a 6-1, 190 wide receiver from Charlotte Latin, Tweeted about his "amazing official visit) at Dartmouth, but it was the Charlotte Latin Football Twitter account that spilled the beans:
"Proud of you ✌️ Dartmouth is getting one of the best young men to ever come through this program."
5:30 p.m. Update: Now Haughton has Tweeted his intentions HERE.
Haughton, whose offer sheet includes Columbia, Cornell, Penn, Mercer, Davidson, Washington & Lee, caught 75 balls for 1,403 yards and 13 touchdowns on offense and had 66 tackles and two interceptions on defense. He was the Big South Conference Athlete of the Year, repeated as a North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association all-state selection, and was chosen for the Charlotte area Queen City Senior Bowl. He was also on the Carolina Bowl Senior Showcase watchlist.
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Tomorrow is Signing Day and if you have a celebration photo I can post on BGA Daily, CLICK HERE. That will address an email to me with the subject line, SigningDay. Then just attach a photo. If photos come in the way they did in the past, I'll be posting them throughout the day.
Drew Estrada (WR) – Dartmouth to BaylorPlayed in 11 games with five starts. Caught 30 passes for 367 yards and 1 TD.Eric Wilson (OL) – Harvard to Penn StatePlayed in 13 games with 12 starts.Devin Darrington (RB) – Harvard to VirginiaPlayed in 12 games. Rushed 32 times for 245 yards and two TDs.Scott Boylan (WR) – Brown to DukeNo offensive statistics. Returned eight punts for 73 yards.Dylan Summers (WR) – Cornell to Eastern MichiganPlayed in 12 games. Caught 10 passes for 97 yards.Alan Lamar (RB) – Yale to Arkansas StatePlayed in 12 games with four starts at RB. Also served as the primary kick returner. Rushed 62 times for 231 yards and one TD. Returned 54 kicks for two TDs and a school and Sun Belt Conference-record 1,333 yards. Named an All-Sun Belt Conference First Team kick returner.
Editor's Note: The list does not include at least some transfers in their second year like Dartmouth's Seth Simmer at Samford, Caylin Parker at Albany and Micah Croom at USC.
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There are a bunch of Dartmouth connections in the Super Bowl including Los Angeles Rams COO Kevin Demoff '99/Tuck '06, who used to cover Big Green football on the radio and for The Dartmouth, as well as Tony Pastoors '10, Rams VP and former Dartmouth safety.
Also, wide receivers coach Dave Shula's son Chris, is on staff with Los Angeles. From a Cincinnati.com story (LINK):
Chris Shula, the son of former Bengals head coach Dave Shula, coaches linebackers. Chris, who played in college with McVay at Miami University has been on the Rams' staff for five seasons. He was assistant linebackers coach from 2017-18, outside linebackers coach from 2019-20 and took over as linebackers coach this season.
The most prominent Dartmouth connection, of course, is Bengals owner Mike Brown '57, a two-year letterwinner as a Big Green quarterback and the starter his senior year. Cincinnati Magazine did a deep dive into Brown's playing career at Dartmouth in a 2017 story headlined, MIKE BROWN’S FORGOTTEN PLAYING DAYS. From the story (LINK):
Brown was a record-setting college quarterback who started for a good team and had a real shot at playing professionally.
The story includes this about a game at Princeton during his senior season when Brown, once best known as the son of NFL legend Paul Brown, emerged from his father's shadow:
More than 30,000 fans jammed into Princeton’s Palmer Stadium, but Brown kept them quiet. Dartmouth won 19–0, with Brown running for all three touchdowns himself. That gave him 10 rushing touchdowns for the season, the most in the Ivy League (and a Dartmouth school record). He also finished among the league leaders in passing yards, attempts, and completions. The New York Times even coined a new sobriquet for him—not “Son of” but rather “Mike Brown, Dartmouth’s ace quarterback.”
In a sign of how different the game was in the '50s compared to today, Brown led Dartmouth in passing with 34 completions in 78 attempts – for the season! He threw for 530 yards with two touchdowns and six interceptions, but was Dartmouth's leading scorer with those 10 touchdowns.
Brown was the subject of this Ohio History Video oral history in 2017:
Mrs. BGA and I are not big TV watchers apart from the news, sports, Jeopardy and reruns of Monk ;-)
