From a Manchester Union Leader story about Saturday's game headlined UNH-Dartmouth football: Big Green look for balance in intrastate battle (LINK):
“Listening to Buddy Teevens’s press conference this week it seems like he wants to get back to a two-quarterback system,” UNH coach Rick Santos said. “I know they’ve been extremely successful doing that the last couple years. I don’t know if that’s going to be this week.
“Dylan Cadwallader is somebody who can throw the ball all over. He complements what they had last year in their dynamic quarterback (Howard). We have two plans of attack defensively. We have to tackle extremely well. I thought last year we fit them up decently, but he (Howard) was physically imposing. He ran through some arm tackles, so we can’t rely on just one or two guys running to the football. All 11 have to do that — we have to put a net around them.”
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From a story in the UNH school newspaper after the Wildcats improved to 4-0 in conference last week (LINK):
The schedule gets harder from here on out for UNH as they will travel to Dartmouth (1-3, 0-2) this weekend. Santos stressed the team got “embarrassed and beat up” last year in their 38-21 loss last season and that they need to focus on this weekend’s matchup.
You can watch the battle go down this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. on ESPN+ as the Wildcats look to improve to 5-0 in the CAA.
Green Alert Take: Did I miss something about Dartmouth leaving the Ivy League to join the CAA? Anything to have a shot at the playoffs ;-)
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Craig Haley at The Analyst has Dartmouth-UNH as one of his game-of-the-week picks. From the column (HERE):
UNH’s Dylan Laube rushed for 75- and 53-yard TDs in last year’s Granite Bowl, and ranks second in the FCS in all-purpose yards per game (166.8) this season. Dartmouth seeks to halt its first three-game losing streak since 2011 (two in overtime and 24-21 at Yale). QB Nick Howard missed the Yale loss due to injury, but junior Dylan Cadwallader had two TD passes and one score on the ground in his first career start.
The Pick: New Hampshire
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For a program story I freelanced on Dartmouth safety Quinten Arello that includes an interesting anecdote on how they recruited him, click HERE.
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With New Mexico State's game this week being broadcast in the Navajo language the school has a short video clip with two players who have Native American heritage. Listen to what former Dartmouth tight end JJ Jones '20 has to say here:
THREAD: Saturday's @NMStateFootball-New Mexico game will be broadcast around the state in the Navajo language. NMSU has 2 players from Navajo Nation: Shiyazh Pete and @jj_jonessss, as well as 2 others from different tribes. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/J4ubSTJOGN
— Colin Deaver (@ColinDeaverTV) October 11, 2022
Jones has two catches in four appearances for 1-5 New Mexico State this fall.
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From a story out of the University of Connecticut, where Mickey Grace, who served on the Big Green staff for a year, is now coaching (LINK):
Grace’s rise in the football profession is also being saluted this weekend as UConn holds a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Title IX and the commemoration of an enduring legacy of UConn women’s athletics since its varsity inception in 1974. Although Grace does not coach a woman’s sport, she is an example of how Title IX has helped females rise in all areas of college athletics.
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Tiffani-Dawn Sykes, Dartmouth's executive senior associate athletics director for varsity sports and senior woman administrator, has been hired as the new athletic director at Florida A&M. (LINK)
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Dartmouth remembers Louise O'Neal, a groundbreaking athletic administrator at the college in the 1980s and later athletic director at Wellesley College, passed away recently at age 83. Find a story HERE.
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Athletic scholarships in the "cash-strapped" Ivy League? Check out a column in the Yale Daily News that bats the idea around HERE.
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Why does it seem almost poetic that when the University of North Alabama plays Jacksonville State University with both offenses trying to reach the same end zone that the game is being played at the home of the Trash Pandas baseball team? From a story about Saturday's game in Madison, Ala. (LINK):
Playing one-direction football gives the game a unique twist. The format is dictated by the space available on the field with the layout not having enough buffer space beyond the end zone on the east end to permit playing both directions.
It’s believed to be only the second time in Division I history where a game will be played in that format – preceded by Northwestern playing Illinois in 2010 at Wrigley Field, the home of baseball’s Chicago Cubs.
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And finally, as happens from time to time, inspiration for pulling together BGA Daily every morning is starting to wane. This note is NOT intended for BGA Premium subscribers who have been wonderfully generous, but rather for the rest of you who visit this space every day. See the puppy up there to the right? If even a few of you click that picture and drop enough in the kitty (puppy?) for me to grab a Coke it will give me the lift I need to keep banging away on the keyboard day, after day, after day, after day.
I still remember dropping by the Franklin Mills mall on the way to a game at Penn with That Certain Dartmouth '14 when she was small and we got fudge samples at one of the stands. We were munching away on the sweets when the fellows who worked the stand broke out in song, singing: "Don't be a freeloader, step to the register." We laugh about that to this day.
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EXTRA POINT
On the way home from practice last night I saw one of those portable side-of-the-highway signs lit up with these words:
Deer Are On the Move
Reduce Speed at Night
Words to live by.
