Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Play Nice

A great photo in the Calgary Sun:


In case that caption is too small it reads:

Calgary Stampeders defensive lineman Folarin Orimolade sacks Edmonton Elks quarterback Taylor Cornelius at McMahon Stadium in Calgary on Monday, Sept. 5, 2022..

Orimolade, the former Dartmouth linebacker, helped the Calgary Stampeders improve to 7-4 on the season. From the story (LINK):

If you were to go through the list of seven defensive linemen the Stamps fielded against the Elks in Monday’s 26-18 win, every single one of them had at least one big, disruptive play.

“Everybody chipped in,” said Stamps defensive end Folarin Orimolade. “We’re a destructive group, I think we’re one of the best in the league, if not the best. I think we showed it today.”

It’s probably easiest to simply list off what each d-lineman did.

Orimolade had two sacks.

For the record, Orimolade finished with five tackles, second on the team. Through 11 games he's fourth on the team with 27 tackles to go with four sacks, one interception, one touchdown and one forced fumbled. 

With a full week in the books in the real world of college football, here is the Stats Perform FCS Top-25:


STATS PERFORM

W-L

Pts

Prev

1

North Dakota State (52)

1-0

1,348

1

2

South Dakota State (2)

0-1

1,259

2

3

Montana

1-0

1,244

3

4

Montana State

1-0

1,210

4

5

Missouri State

1-0

1,065

5

6

Villanova

1-0

1,064

6

7

Sacramento State

1-0

1,009

7

8

UIW

1-0

899

14

9

ETSU

1-0

815

11

10

Delaware

1-0

768

19

11

Chattanooga

1-0

752

12

12

Eastern Washington

1-0

719

13

13

Jackson State

1-0

700

15

14

UT Martin

1-0

518

18

15

Holy Cross

1-0

495

16

16

Weber State

1-0

451

20

17

Southern Illinois

0-1

450

9

18

Stephen F. Austin

1-1

394

10

19

Kennesaw State

0-1

379

8

20

William & Mary

1-0

350

NR

21

Southeastern Louisiana

0-1

348

17

22

Rhode Island

1-0

324

22

23

Mercer

1-1

206

23

24

Northern Iowa

0-1

187

21

25

Samford

1-0

162

NR


Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): Richmond (0-1) 104; UC Davis (0-1) 85; Eastern Kentucky (0-1): 67; South Dakota (0-1): 44; Furman (1-0): 31; DARTMOUTH (0-0): 30; NEW HAMPSHIRE (1-0) 14; Elon (0-1): 13; North Dakota (0-1) 11; North Carolina Central (1-0) 3; Austin Peay (1-1) 3





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While Dartmouth and the rest of the Ivy League continues in limbo, here's the schedule for the Big Green's nonconference opponents this week:

Valparaiso (1-0) will play at Illinois State (0-1) Saturday night.

Sacred Heart (0-1) visits Central Connecticut State (0-1) Saturday night.

New Hampshire (1-0) travels to Albany (0-1) Saturday night.

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As expected, yesterday's posting regarding the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine's top 100 Dartmouth athletes of all time brought a few emails and a few digital howls.

Among the football players who emailers felt deserved mention were the coach himself, Buddy Teevens, who won the Bushnell Trophy while quarterbacking Dartmouth to an Ivy League title and then skated with the Big Green in the Frozen Four, three-time All-Ivy League football defensive end Tom Csatari '74, and all-everything Peter Lavery '83, who won 11 letters in football, hockey and baseball.

And digging through the BGA Daily files I pulled this up about someone who was somehow overlooked:

When talk gets around to great athletes ever to attend Dartmouth Gene Ryzewicz '68 is always in the conversation. As a football halfback who battled injury throughout his career he averaged 7.5 yards per carry as a sophomore and junior, before switching to quarterback and leading the team in scoring as a senior.

On the baseball field he was an All-America second baseman who still holds the school's all-time record for stolen bases and led the squad both in batting average and RBIs as a senior.

He didn't play basketball at Dartmouth but set a Western Massachusetts tournament record with a 51-point game.

For good measure, the Berkshire Beacon reminds us that as a golfer he competed in the U.S. and British Senior Opens.