No word yet on what is happening with the Dartmouth tight ends coaching position that opened up when Cheston Blackshear returned to the University of Florida, but the Big Green does have at least one new coach already lined up per his Twitter:
WE IN THE WOODS! I have accepted the Defensive Quality Control position w/ @DartFootball 🌲🌲🌲#GoGreen #DartmouthFB #Inthewoods pic.twitter.com/JwJnR5VXM2
— David Coleman (@CoachColeman_7) February 25, 2022
Coleman comes to Dartmouth from DIII Alvernia University in Reading, Pa., where he coached inside linebackers and served as the junior varsity defensive coordinator.
Prior to Alvernia, Coleman coached linebackers at prep powerhouse Milford Academy. A former walk-on at Rhode Island who transferred and played three years at Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pa., he also coached at Lebanon Valley in Pennsylvania and Fairleigh Dickinson in his home state of New Jersey, where he graduated from Montclair High School in 2010.
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Yesterday's posting of Dartmouth's record against DIII opponents resulted in several questions about the Big Green's record against some of those schools. For the record, Division III wasn't formalized by the NCAA until 1973. Prior to that year the breakdown was simply to University and College Divisions.
Now that you are thoroughly confused, here's how Dartmouth has fared over the years against the Small School/College Division/DIII schools it has played most frequently (last meeting in parentheses):
Norwich 26-0 (1941)
Williams 20-4-2 (1914)
Amherst 24-3-3 (1941)
Tufts 13-1-1 (1920)
Bowdoin 9-0-1 (1911)
Bates 8-0 (1938)
Wesleyan 5-3 (1904)
MIT 5-1 (1895)
Hobart 5-0 (1929)
Springfield 5-0 (1937)
Middlebury 4-0 (1922)
Colby 4-0 (1923)
Allegheny 4-0 (1930)
Stevens Tech 2-1-1 (1891)
Trinity 3-0 (1901)
St. Lawrence 3-0 (1940)
It's tricky to try to settle on Dartmouth's last Division III game, of course, because of the changes in nomenclature. The last game against a current DIII school was a 19-0 loss to Coast Guard on Nov. 11, 1944. For the record, the Coast Guard Bears (go figure) had beaten Brown the week before, 20-0 and had lost at Yale by just 7-3. On the other hand, they had been crushed by Army, 76-0.
As long as the topic is DIII and schools like Amherst and Williams, are you curious about Dartmouth's conference affiliations over the years? Sure you are.
1881-1886 – Independent
1887-1898 – Triangular Football League
1899-1955 – Independent
1956-today – Ivy League
(Dartmouth was also a member of the loosely formed Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association from 1887-1890.)
The Triangular Football League was founded by Dartmouth, Amherst and Williams and continued from 1885-1901. MIT and Wesleyan also spent time in the league.
Dartmouth won a share of its first Triangular Football League title along with MIT in 1888 and won it all in 1889. The Big Green regained the title in 1893, winning it every year through 1898, when it left the league.
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EXTRA POINT
Unable/unwilling to travel much the past couple of years because of COVID-19, I've done my share of traveling virtually, watching YouTube videos of other people exploring the country and the world.
One of the more popular and entertaining YouTube travel teams I've stumbled across is the Millennial couple Kara and Nate, who have posted videos of their trips to 100 countries. Given the headlines of the past week, last night Mrs. BGA and I made it a point to click through and watch one of the seven videos the pair posted in 2019 from their 94th country – Ukraine.
It was incredibly touching to see that country in happier times. I encourage you to watch that 19-minute video HERE and reflect on what is happening there now. (The bit with the hot dog and the hammer cracked me up.) You can watch Kara and Nate's entire Ukraine series – which includes visiting and sleeping in Chernobyl – HERE.
