The Analyst has a story today under the headline, FCS 2022: Seven Questions as Spring Practices Get Underway. If you are an Ivy League fan no need to click through ;-)
But on the subject of spring practice, Dartmouth is slated to hit the field 48 days from today, on Tuesday, April 5. The date of the spring "game" hasn't yet been finalized, but it will be either Saturday, April 30 or one week later, on May 7.
In the meantime, head strength and conditioning coach Spencer Brown is helping get the players on campus ready for what's to come:
Rest to grow. This line of work requires recovery. #thewoods pic.twitter.com/QPRyiCRx5p
— Spencer A. Brown (@dartmouthstrong) February 10, 2022
Speaking of which, you may have seen this before, but here's where the Big Green players are spending time these days:
While doing my daily hike through the snow this week I've been listening to a New York Times/Serial Productions podcast titled, The Trojan Horse Affair. From the Times description of the podcast (LINK):
A strange letter appears on a city councillor’s desk in Birmingham, England, laying out an elaborate plot by Islamic extremists to infiltrate the city’s schools. The plot has a code name: Operation Trojan Horse.
. . . (T)hrough all the official inquiries and heated speeches in Parliament, no one has ever bothered to answer a basic question: Who wrote the letter? And why?
The eight-part mystery details the search to find out who wrote the anonymous letter, why, and how much – if any – of it might be true.
Although I broke a good number of stories about who was being hired for prominent head coaching jobs during my years as Dartmouth beat writer/assistant sports editor for the local daily, I was hardly an investigative journalist. But listening to this podcast, I can't help thinking about the time our sports department received an anonymous envelope bearing a photocopy of a letter that would help change the course of Dartmouth football. Back in 2005 old friend Brad Parks wrote about the letter we received and its impact in a Dartmouth Alumni Magazine story you can find HERE.
I still have a photocopy of the letter. I've had a few hunches over the years where it might have come from, but I've never been able to prove it. Maybe I should drag my old editor out of retirement so we can pull together our own eight-part podcast: The Dartmouth Football Letter Affair ;-)
