One of the state's TV stations takes a very brief look at Saturday's New Hampshire-Dartmouth football game from the New Hampshire perspective:
Although both are FCS programs, they don’t have a lot in common when it comes to recruiting.UNH fills the majority of its roster with players from the Northeast, while the Dartmouth roster has much more of a national flavor. The UNH roster lists 53 players from New England. All but five players on Dartmouth’s roster live outside of New England.
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Sagarin has Dartmouth a 9-point favorite at home over New Hampshire. Here are the Sagarin Division I ratings and how they changed over the past week:-
147 - Princeton - up 1
164 - Harvard - down 1
168 - Dartmouth - up 1
171 - Penn - up seven
172 - Yale - up 1
185 - Columbia - down 3
214 - Cornell - up five
216 - Brown - down four190 - New Hampshire - no change
212 - Sacred Heart - down 1
241 - Valparaiso - up 2
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Massey Ratings has Dartmouth defeating New Hampshire, 27-20, with 68 percent confidence.
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The Dartmouth College website has a "James Wright Over the Years," retrospective about the former college president who died earlier this week. It includes a picture of him with Buddy Teevens and three players on Memorial Field.
The local Valley News has a story about Wright that includes this (LINK):
As the only Dartmouth president from a working class background, Wright brought to the Ivy League school a desire to open it up to a wider range of people, and making the school more diverse was a hallmark of his administration.
“He wasn’t one of the stuffy Ivy presidents who are self-important and who thought that their job conferred power and privilege,” David Shribman, who had Wright as a professor and who was one of the Dartmouth trustees who hired him as president, said Tuesday. “Jim was the people’s president.”
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From last night's BGA Premium:
News that former Dartmouth president Jim Wright has passed away at age 83 after a battle with cancer hit Big Green coach Buddy Teevens hard.
Although he knew Wright was very ill he didn’t realize quite how ill, and regrets that he didn’t have the chance for a final farewell to a man who meant so much to him.
“He was here when I was a student and he’s one of the reasons I majored in history,” Teevens said quietly. “He and Jere Daniell, who also passed this year.
“He was instrumental in me starting my second tour here. He and (former athletic director) Josie Harper made commitments to facilities, the Floren Varsity House, the turf and lights.”
Wright would periodically stop by practice in retirement, but wanted no special treatment.
“When he’d come out there was never a big announcement or anything else,” Teevens said. “He’d come around because he loved the game and he loved the team. He never asked to talk to the team, but he would if I asked him.
“He was Dartmouth. He had a presidential, almost regal presentation, but he wasn’t that guy. He was just one of us, somebody who knew and loved the game.”
There was something else that Teevens will always cherish about Wright.
“He would never call me after a win,” he said. “He's one of the few that would call me after a loss."
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EXTRA POINT
Call it a Catch 6:22.
Two digits of the readout on a cheap clock radio in our spare bedroom no longer work. We had bought it because it shines the time onto the ceiling in big, blue numbers and fortunately that functionality still works.
Because the clock was about 10 minutes fast I recently endeavored to reset the time but I couldn't do it during the day because the readout was kaput.
At night I could see the time on the ceiling, but because it was dark I couldn't see the small buttons on the radio that would allow me to adjust the time. When I turned on a small desk lamp it was light enough to see the buttons, but I couldn't see the time on the ceiling.
The temporary solution was to use a flashlight on the top of the radio. The permanent solution? Buy a new clock radio.
