It has been a big week for Dartmouth special teams. First they landed a commitment from a talented placekicker in the next recruiting class and now they have added a promising longsnapper:
Extremely blessed to announce my commitment to the admissions process at Dartmouth College to further my academic and athletic career!! 🌲🌲#TheWoods @BTeevens @DartmouthFTBL @Coach_McCorkle @coachkeithclark @LandanYount @BlaineSiddersJr @Coach_Casper pic.twitter.com/DJcGVx0JU4
— Andrew Belles (@andybelles31) July 15, 2022
Belles hails from Houst High School in Germantown, Tenn., and has been ranked the No. 23 longsnapper in the class according to Kohl's Kicking.
The kicker who committed to Dartmouth earlier in the week is Owen Zalc of Green Hope High School and Carey, N.C.
Green Alert Take: The Big Green has addressed two positions of need. Current longsnapper Josh Greene will be a senior in the fall. Kickers Cam Baller and Zach Dresser, who will compete to replace Connor Davis this year, also will be seniors. All are eligible for the COVID bonus year, but whether any will return is an open question.
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A couple of former Dartmouth standouts continue to make plays. Flo Orimolade's Calgary Stampeders dropped a tough 26-19 decision at the Winnipeg Blue Bombers last night in a battle of undefeated CFL teams. Here's Flo (9) making a sack early in the fourth quarter, one of his three tackles on the night. Watch him bull-rush the poor guy trying to block him, send the fellow head over heels and then grab the QB.
@FolarinTheGreat the @DartmouthFTBL alum and current @calstampeders with the sack. @DraftDiamonds @FCSNationRadio1 @_redshirtsports pic.twitter.com/8oPPQ6qYAc
— Justin Aaron (@JustinAaronUH91) July 16, 2022
And Jared Gerbino, fresh off a MVP performance leading his squad to the Italian Football League championship, shedded his pads and represented Italy in Men's Flag Football at the 11th World Games 2022 in Birmingham, Ala. Here he catches the first TD pass in the gold medal game won by the United States, 46-36:
Find a story HERE. Other countries who qualified for the World Games in Flag Football were Mexico, Panama, France, Austria, Denmark and GermanyItaly scores first in the Flag Football gold medal game at @TWG2022 pic.twitter.com/iVWYSGcTLN
— NFL (@NFL) July 15, 2022
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Now pay attention! Dartmouth football has new web addresses for its Twitter and Instagram accounts, making it easier to find it at both social media sites at @DartmouthFTBL.
Via the web the sites at:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DartmouthFTBL
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DartmouthFTBL.
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EXTRA POINT
Editor's Note: This entry was updated after Garrison Keillor sent out a correction to his entry in The Writer's Almanac about today being Bloomsday. That posting led to me sharing my difficulty with James Joyce's book below. Turns out Keillor was off by a month. Bloomsday was June 16. Apparently I'm not the only one who has trouble with Ulysses. ;-)
July June16 is known in some circles (certainly not mine) as Bloomsday, for the protagonist in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, which follows Leopold Bloom around Dublin on this day in 1904.
As an English major during my undergraduate years I was required to read Joyce's masterpiece but found it, well, impenetrable and eventually put it down. That being the case, a fellow English major and I happened to notice the old black-and-white film based on the book was playing at some art house movie theater in New York City and so we headed to Greenwich Village thinking it would save us from having to read the book and hopefully understand it.
All I remember about the movie is it didn't help. If you are curious, you can watch the entire flick HERE, but please know there will be a quiz ;-)
