Dartmouth Alumni Magazine has a cover story headlined Dartmouth’s 100 Greatest Athletes of All Time and it will provide absolutely everyone who has even a little background in Big Green athletics with something to complain about . . . like how former major league catcher Brad Ausmus '91, who never played a game at Dartmouth, somehow made the list ;-)
To read the story, CLICK HERE.
Accompanying the list is an interview with Buddy Teevens that features a, well, a strange caricature of the head football coach. In the interview, which can be accessed HERE, Teevens explains:
“My approach to players comes from what I wish my experience had been. I wanted to play in the NFL and had no backup plan. No one ever talked to me about that—or how I was doing off the field. I would have benefited if someone had said, ‘I hear you skipped a class.’ We engage with the faculty, and we have mentors and alums who talk to our players about life, about possible careers.”
Dartmouth's top male athlete on the list is football player slash wrestler Reggie Williams and there's a story about him HERE.
For the record, there are 15* athletes listed as having played football with three* making the top-15 list and the others "listed in no particular order." (Note the asterisks ;-)
Here are the "football players" on the list with where they are ranked:
1. Reggie Williams
3. Jay Fiedler
6. Myles Lane
Here are the other football players included on the list:
Bob MacLeod ’39
Edward Healey, Class of 1918
Gus Sonnenberg, Class of 1920
J. Murry Bowden ’71
Bill King ’63
Andrew “Swede” Oberlander, Class of 1926
Ralph Glaze, Class of 1906
Bill Morton ’32
Zack Walz ’98
Dalyn Williams ’16
Isiah Swann ’20
Casey Cramer ’04
* And here comes my asterisk. Given the number of players listed with "football" after their name even if it was their secondary sport, how in the heck was four-year football letterwinner Adam Nelson not listed as track and field/football?
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NFL Draft Diamonds has a piece headlined 2023 NFL Draft Prospect Interview: Jake Guidone, OL, UConn that gives some insights to the Dartmouth grad transfer who is the starting center for the 1-1 Huskies. Find the story HERE.
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BGA Premium had two stories out of Saturday's scrimmage posted that afternoon and another piece went up last night. If by 11 p.m. each night you don't see a new story, try emptying your cache or shutting down your browser and trying again because there's a story every night until the end of the season.
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Jack Kerouac's On the Road was published on this day in 1957. I read it in high school and maybe, just maybe, along with Travels With Charlie, Blue Highways and Charles Kuralt it has something to do with the fact that I've bicycled across the country twice, gone coast-to-coast in a tractor trailer, ridden a Greyhound the width of the country, flown from sea to shining sea any number of times, driven most of it and after once riding the rails from Colorado to New England dream of doing the entire country by train.
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EXTRA POINT
Not to, uh, belabor a point, but when it comes to holidays, Labor Day is at the bottom of my list. Granted, it does mean the traditional start of football season, but it also means the start of school and all those fibbing kids you see on the TV news aside, no kid in his or her right mind really wants summer vacation to end. Heck, no person in their right mind should want summer to end. Labor Day is a reminder that it's going to continue getting colder and darker by the day.
Beyond all that, just think of the title of the holiday. I mean, it's Labor Day! That means work. Forget that. I would much rather a holiday called Vacation Day!
