There will be a few familiar names in Amherst, Mass., on Oct. 15 when Buffalo invades McGuirk Alumni Stadium to take on UMass.
Tight end Robbie Mangas '22 will be suited up as a grad transfer for the Bulls and when he looks across the field he'll see both a former teammate, a former teammate's brother, and a two-time Dartmouth assistant coach.
The former teammate and assistant coach get a mention in a Buffalo story looking at the Bulls' schedule this fall. From the story (LINK):
Anybody who knows Don Brown knows that he loves to blitz, but there does seem to be a bit of a hole at linebacker. Leading tackler Gerrell Johnson returns, but everybody else of note is gone. Johnson is solid, having racked up 80 tackles and 1.5 sacks last year, but he will need help. Rutgers transfer Zukudo Igwenagu seems in line to claim one of the other linebacker spots, as does Dartmouth transfer Jalen Mackie. This unit is a question mark.
Brown, of course, is the highly regarded but peripatetic head coach at UMass who started his college coaching career at Dartmouth in the 1980s. Jalen Mackie '22, is a grad transfer who earned All-America recognition with the Big Green last fall.
And as a bonus, UMass has a 6-foot-5, 250-pound graduate student tight end named Jaret Pallotta, whose brother Jake '20, played quarterback at Dartmouth where he was a teammate of both Mackie and Mangas.
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Just posted on YouTube is a highlight film from Dartmouth's 30-6 win over Harvard in 1927. The film isn't in good shape but keep an eye out for Myles Lane, the Big Green's All-America running back, future NHL player and eventual New York State Supreme Court justice.
Green Alert Take: With no numbers on the front of the jerseys and both uniforms coming across as black, good luck even figuring out which team is which. Big, big crowd, though ;-)
Tired of that flickering and snowy picture? Give your eyes a break and watch the highlights of last fall's 20-17 Dartmouth win in the same stadium:
I don't know how long it will stay up before whoever owns the rights to the broadcast catches up with him, but someone posted the entire 2021 Dartmouth-Harvard game HERE.
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If you've been paying any attention, you know that Dartmouth will have two players on the roster this fall from Germany. Konstantin Spörk is a promising 6-5, 275 offensive lineman from Pulheim, Germany and Nico Schwikal is a 6-3, 230 freshman linebacker from Schönfeld, Germany.
Huh? What's going on here?
Glad you asked. Check out a story headlined, How Germany tackled American football and made it their own; In a football-mad country, discover why these German players have picked the gridiron over the pitch to chase their dreams HERE.
While we're at it, Dartmouth has had an impact on the growth of football in Germany. All-time great receiver Craig Morton '89 played for the Frankfurt Galaxy in the NFL-backed World League of American Football in the early '90s and former Dartmouth head coach John Lyons was interim head coach of the Cologne Centurions for a bit during several seasons overseas as the team's defensive coordinator.
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EXTRA POINT
Just about a month ago I complained in this space about the hassle I had replacing the batteries in one of our smoke detectors when it started to chirp. I finally managed but it was much harder than it should have been. (LINK)
I don't expect it was the same unit but one of the numerous alarms in our house went off at 3:30 this morning, but by the time Mrs. BGA and I jumped out of bed it stopped. That sent us scurrying all over the house to see if there was a problem. There wasn't.
OK, maybe there was come to think of it. If the batteries in the alarm in the BGA World Headquarters needed to be replaced then there's a very good chance there are others that should be replaced. We'll be doing a thorough inspect to make sure all of the alarms use the same batteries and then trading them out.
Better a false alarm than no alarm, but better yet, no false alarm.
