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You asked for it, you got it. Toyota.
Following up on yesterday's posting about the largest and smallest crowds at Memorial Field since Teevens returned to Dartmouth 2005, here are the largest and smallest crowds for Dartmouth road games over the same span. (Neutral game at Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium not included.)
2021
New Hampshire, 15,394
Brown, 1,933
2019
Harvard, 20,112
Marist, 1,188
2018
Columbia, 12,506
Cornell, 3,604
2017
Harvard, 11,143
Stetson, 2,435
2016
Holy Cross, 9,878
Cornell, 3,783
2015
Harvard, 13,058
Central Connecticut, 2,064
2014
Columbia, 11,202
Cornell, 4,212
2013
Harvard, 13,470
Butler, 3,194
2012
Yale, 11,235
Cornell, 4,106
2011
Yale, 17,786
Sacred Heart 3,101
2010
Columbia, 10,904
Cornell, 3,787
2009
Yale, 15,773
Brown , 4,410
2008
Penn, 12,433
Columbia, 2,161
2007
Yale, 24,237
Brown, 5,119
2006
Princeton, 12,004
Columbia, 3,647
2005
Harvard, 12,661
Yale, 2,420
And for perspective . . .
1995
Cornell, 8,030
Lafayette, 3,107
1985
Penn, 19,802
Columbia, 6,013
1980
Holy Cross, 15,793
Cornell, 10,000
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A correction on the posting of the nonconference opponents for Ivy League football teams that went up HERE a few days ago. The posting had Yale, which has not yet announced its 2022 schedule, playing both Holy Cross and Mercer. That was a result of this from a release Mercer posted when its series with Yale was announced (LINK):
The series between the two schools will begin on Oct. 13, 2018 at the historic Yale Bowl in Connecticut with the Yale Bulldogs visiting Five Star Stadium in Macon on Oct. 2, 2021. Mercer will return to the Yale Bowl in 2022 with the fourth game of the series being hosted in Macon in 2023.
The 2022 Mercer schedule, however, does not show a game against Yale next fall. (LINK) If Yale announced that the series was on hiatus, I missed it. Sorry.
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The Analyst has a story about Dayton having the opportunity to run the longest streak without being shut in college football history to 500 in the fall. (LINK) The Flyers have scored in 497 games. How far back is that? Glad you asked.
Dayton was last shut out on Oct. 23, 1976 by Marshall, 9-0. For perspective, a gallon of gas that year averaged . . . drum roll . . . 59 cents in '76.
Dartmouth, by the way, saw a 91-game shutout streak snapped with last fall's 19-0 loss to Columbia on Oct. 22. The last shutout before that? A 30-0 loss at Yale on Oct. 8, 2011.
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Headline in The Dartmouth (LINK):
Summer 2022 Russia FSP likely to be canceled due to Russian invasion of Ukraine
Moving forward, academic partnerships with Russian institutions might be more complicated.
Green Alert Take: Gee, do you think???
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Hanover High School, behind the south end zone and across the street from Memorial Field, joined the list of schools deciding their team name is inappropriate some time back and has finally settled on a new nickname. Formerly the Marauders, the school teams will now be known as the Hanover Bears. (LINK)
Green Alert Take: My preference would have been another finalist, the Hanover Huskies, but that might have offended some of the offensive linemen ;-). For what it's worth, another of the Hanover finalists would be appropriate across the street. Dartmouth Trailblazers works on so many levels.
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EXTRA POINT
I stopped skiing at least a decade ago, both because lift tickets had become prohibitively expensive and I wasn't ready to spend a ridiculous amount of money on replacing my seriously outdated equipment. (Bringing peanut butter sandwiches to save money at lunch time only to leave them in the bag and splurge on burgers and fries when the smell wafted over us didn't help the bottom line at the lodge, either. ;-).
Truth be told, I liked skiing but unlike the rest of the family, I never loved it. (Probably because I wasn't as good at it as Mrs. BGA and our native New Englander kids.)
So, given that I no longer ski, I don't salivate at the idea of a 15-inch snowfall the way I once did. Quite the opposite.
I'm fine with one big storm a year for old time's sake. Apart from that I root for a week like the one we're having right now. Each morning for the past few days we've awoken to anywhere from a dusting to an inch-and-a-half of new snow. That's perfect. It's enough to brighten up the dirty stuff on the side of the road and cover Griff's uh, you know – but not enough to make driving treacherous.
Each morning when there has been that touch of new snow I walk and feed Griff the Wonder Dog before heading back outside to clear a path to our detached garage so Mrs. BGA can get to her car without getting snow in her shoes. After a few consecutive days I got creative yesterday with a serpentine path to the garage.
This morning's path looked like this:
