Dartmouth quarterback Nick Howard sets up in front of Eli Manning at the famed Manning Passing Academy in this screen grab from a Dartmouth football post.
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2017 – Columbia 22, Dartmouth 17
2018 – Dartmouth 28, Columbia 12
2019 – Dartmouth 59, Columbia 24
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It's Saturday. You've got the time, so check out this podcast interview with former Dartmouth tight end JJ Jones, who will play this fall as a grad transfer at New Mexico State:
I am joined by @NMStateFootball TE @jj_jonessss. JJ has football in his blood, dad played at NM State and grandpa in the NFL. After earning back-to-back Ivy League titles and All-Ivy TE honors with @DartFootball JJ entered the transfer portal. https://t.co/e1zGPcQLl0
— T'N'T College Football Podcast (@TNTCollegeFoot1) June 24, 2022
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This isn't about Ivy League football, but if you've been around this electronic precinct a bit you know that there's a lot of blue in our family. That Certain Nittany Lion '16 studied geography at Penn State, Mrs. BGA's father earned a grad degree in chemistry from what was then Penn State College, and yours truly has a PSU diploma in journalism packed away in a box somewhere. Keeping all that in mind, I stumbled across a note this morning that speaks to how football-crazed the students are in Happy Valley, and I hope you don't mind my sharing it here.
Student football tickets at Penn State sell for $246 dollars, or about $35 apiece for a seven-game schedule. The 21,000 available student tickets went on sale Monday. Here's how long the tix took to sell out by class:
Freshmen: 17 Minutes
Sophomores: 19 Minutes
Juniors: 17 Minutes
Seniors: 22 Minutes
Green Alert Take: I clearly remember being on the road with Mrs. BGA and That Certain Nittany Lion '16 and racing to find a place with wifi so we could be online at the exact time tickets went on sale before his freshman year. The relief when we got confirmation of his student tickets was palpable because those who strike out are left to fork over big bucks in the secondary market unless they can find a student ticket-holder who won't be around on game day.
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EXTRA POINT
Timing is everything.
That Certain Dartmouth '14 is on trail running the San Juan Solstice 50-mile race in Colorado as this is posted. She was one of 270 people accepted for the grueling race after registration closed on Jan. 31.
She lives at 7,700-feet so the race altitude isn't a huge problem, and she's certainly no stranger to ultra running. She had a terrific finish in the 40-mile Grand Traverse Mountain Run out of Crested Butte two years ago, finishing 31st overall. She was training well for this 50-miler, which includes climbs of 4,500 feet at Alpine Gulch and 4,000-feet at the ghost town of Carson while topping out at 13,334 feet, but as noted above, timing is everything.
TCD'14 has been super diligent about COVID vaccine shots and masking up but as they say, eventually COVID 19 is going to find you. In a cruel twist, it finally found her just about three weeks ago. While her symptoms were generally mild – mostly being very tired – not only couldn't she continue training properly for 10 days or so, but her conditioning understandably went backward. Not a good thing when you are facing 12,000-plus feet of elevation gain over a 50-mile mountain challenge.
The race started in Lake City today at 5 a.m., Colorado time. There are cutoff times at various points along the trail with those who don't make the time being pulled off the course. To be considered a finisher you have to cross the line by 9 p.m.. I have absolutely no doubt TCD'14 would be there at the finish if she hadn't gotten sick but now? Who knows?
