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Freshman safety Sean Williams was chosen the Ivy League Rookie of the Week after making six tackles and returning an interception 56 yards in Saturday's game at Yale. Find a release about Williams being honored HERE and his Dartmouth bio HERE. Only a "clip" on his heel as he escaped the last possible tackler and had an open field in front of him kept him from bringing the interception back 93 yards. (For those asking, the all-time Dartmouth record for a "pick six" is 96 yards by Tom Spangenberg '64 against Holy Cross in 1962.)

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For what it's worth, the Dartmouth-Yale game also provided two other weekly award winners:

Yale running back Tre Peterson was the Offensive player of the Week.
Yale linebacker Hamilton Moore was the Defensive player of the Week.

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The local daily has a story under the headline Big Green may be back to two QB system HERE.

(Editor's Note: If this is the first you've read of this you aren't a BGA Premium subscriber ;-)

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The Yale Daily News has a story on Saturday's game HERE.

Green Alert Take: I know Yale and Dartmouth and most of the Ivies don't offer much in the way of journalism classes so I'll do my part here and share a little professional advice. If you are writing a story about a game that is appearing a day or two later, don't write a lede saying the game was played, who won and the final score. Tell me why it happened, or what it means. Tease me with your lede or entertain me. Honestly, anyone who cares already knows who won and the score.

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Jake Novak down at Roar Lions has posted his weekly power rating and it looks like this:

1 - Princeton
2 - Yale
3 - Harvard
4 - Penn
5 - Columbia
6 - Cornell
7 - Dartmouth
8 - Brown 

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The phrase at this time of the season you don't want to hear about your favorite college football team:

Well, if they win out ...

— Craig Haley (@CraigHaley) October 10, 2022

Green Alert Take: On BGA Premium The Optimist takes a look at why that could happen for Dartmouth. The Pessimist? Not so much.

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This is kinda cool. I went searching for the accompanying Calgary Stampers program story about the profiled Dartmouth '17 but to no avail:

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	Stats Perform	2022	Pts	Previous
1	North Dakota State (41)	5-1	1,333	1
2	South Dakota State (7)	5-1	1,285	2
3	Montana (7)	5-0	1,247	3
4	Montana State	5-1	1,166	4
5	Sacramento State	5-0	1,153	5
6	Weber State	5-0	1,069	7
7	Holy Cross	6-0	935	9
T-8	Jackson State	5-0	915	8
T-8	UIW	5-1	915	10
10	Chattanooga	4-1	812	11
11	William & Mary	5-1	758	16
12	Mercer	5-1	734	12
13	Delaware	5-1	716	6
14	Elon	5-1	627	14
15	Samford	5-1	613	13
16	Southern Illinois	4-2	557	17
17	Villanova	3-2	440	15
18	Southeast Missouri State	5-1	414	21
19	UT Martin	4-2	413	18
20	North Dakota	4-2	363	22
21	Richmond	3-2	205	23
22	Fordham	5-1	178	NR
23	Eastern Kentucky	3-2	171	25
24	Austin Peay	4-2	75	NR
T-25	Rhode Island	3-2	67	NR
T-25	Southeastern Louisiana	3-3	67	19
	Dropped Out: Missouri State (20), Eastern Washington (24)
	Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): New Hampshire (4-2) 66, Idaho (3-2) 48, Furman (4-2) 41, Missouri State (2-4) 39, Stephen F. Austin (3-3) 31, Monmouth (4-2), 28 Illinois State (3-2) 15, Campbell (3-2) 13, Eastern Washington (1-4) 11, PRINCETON (4-0) 8, North Carolina Central (4-1) 5, PENN (4-0) 4, Abilene Christian (4-2) 3

	FCS Coaches Poll	2022	Pts	Prev
1	North Dakota State (23)	5-1	645	1
2	Montana (3)	5-0	623	2
3	South Dakota State	5-1	598	3
4	Montana State	5-1	552	5
5	Sacramento State	5-0	546	4
6	Weber State	5-0	512	7
7	Jackson State	5-0	470	8
8	Holy Cross	6-0	440	10
9	Chattanooga	4-1	412	9
10	UIW	5-1	406	11
11	Mercer	5-1	382	12
12	Delaware	5-1	352	6
13	William & Mary	5-1	322	17
14	UT Martin	4-2	302	14
15	Samford	5-1	285	15
16	Villanova	3-2	268	13
17	Fordham	5-1	240	16
18	Elon	5-1	233	18
19	Southern Illinois	4-2	177	24
20	Stephen F. Austin	3-3	143	22
21	Southeast Missouri State	5-1	133	25
22	Rhode Island	3-2	131	23
23	PRINCETON	4-0	57	NR
24	Austin Peay	4-2	34	NR
25	Richmond	3-2	24	NR
	Dropped Out: uri State (19), Southeastern Louisiana (20), Eastern Washington (21)
	Others Receiving Votes: Eastern Kentucky, 19; North Dakota, 19; North Carolina Central, 17; PENN, 16; Tarleton, 16; Furman, 15; Monmouth (N.J.), 12; New Hampshire, 9; Southeastern Louisiana, 9; Idaho, 8; Florida A&M, 6; Eastern Washington, 5; Abilene Christian, 4; Davidson, 4; Missouri State, 2; St. Thomas (Minn.), 1; Stetson, 1.

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Sad news this morning with the announcement that Jim Wright, Dartmouth's 16th president, has died at age 83. Wright, who enlisted in the Marines at age 17 before enrolling in college, came to Dartmouth as a history professor and would go on in retirement to be a tireless advocate for military veterans. Find a story in The Dartmouth HERE.

President Wright would periodically stop by football practice ever since Buddy Teevens returned in 2005 and the Dartmouth coach, who called Wright his favorite professor as a student, would sometimes have him speak to the team.

He was a genuinely nice man and a charter subscriber to BGA. It was always a pleasure seeing him at practice and talking with him both about the team and his latest writing project. It was after speaking with him one day that I bought and read Enduring Vietnam, which put a face on those who fought in that war. President Wright will be missed.

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EXTRA POINT
Writing the Fearful Forecast for BGA Premium last week I found myself musing about the past when I was picking the Valparaiso game against Presbyterian.

I grew up in a little town where nothing really big ever happened, but there was a group of 13-or-14-year old "greasers" (as we called them at the time) who lived in the city across the brook from our town. They would hang out under a towering tree smoking cigarettes in a large field bordering where we'd play hockey on the frozen brook in the winter. They never caused us any trouble but we'd always keep a wary eye out for them.

They called themselves the "Press Gang," and for the longest time I couldn't figure out why. Did it have something to do with a newspaper?

No.

I never saw it in writing but if I did it would have read, "Pres Gang." Turns out the field they hung out in was at the back of a property owned by a Presbyterian church. I may be wrong but I'm not sure the church would have approved of the gang appropriating their name ;-)

That property has since been given over to a senior living community and who knows? Some of the ex-greasers might just be back in their old stomping ground soon!