Saturday, January 28, 2023

All-Ivy In The BGA Era

Apologies for the headline. It sounds pompous ;-) This is better but won't fit across the top:

Buddy Teevens returned to Dartmouth for the 2005 season and in the 17 seasons since, he's had 68 first-team All-Ivy League selections. They are:

Year


Pos

Ivy

Overall

2005

Anthony Gargiulo

DE

1-6

2-8

2006

None

2-5

2-8

2007

Justin Cottrell

LB

3-4

3-7

2008

None

0-7

0-10

2009

Nick Schwieger

RB

2-5

2-8

2010

Shawn Abuhoff

Shawn Abuhoff

Charles Bay

Tim McManus

Ryan O'Neill

Nick Schwieger

DB

RS

DL

WR

OL

RB

3-4

6-4

2011

Shawn Abuhoff

Shawn Abuhoff

John Gallagher

Ryan O'Neill

Nick Schwieger

Eddie Smith

DB

RS

TE

OL

RB

DL

4-3

5-5

2012

Rob Bathe

Michael Reilly

Michael Runger

Garrett Waggoner

OL

WR

LB

DB

4-3

6-4

2013

Cohle Fowler

Dominick Pierre

Michael Runger

Garrett Waggoner

Scotty Whitmore

OL

RB

LB

DB

OL

5-2

6-4

2014

Evan Chrustic

Troy Donahue

Vernon Harris

Ryan McManus

Ryan McManus

Will McNamara

Sean Ronan

Scotty Whitmore

Dalyn Williams

A.J. Zuttah

DL

DB

DB

WR

RS

LB

OL

OL

QB

DL

6-1

8-2

2015

David Caldwell

Jacob Flores

Cody Fulleton

Vernon Harris

Ryan McManus

Will McNamara

Folarin Orimolade

A.J. Zuttah

DB

OL

DL

DB

WR

LB

LB

DL

6-1

9-1

2016

Dave Morrison

Folarin Orimolade

OL

LB

1-6

4-6

2017

Matt Kaskey

Jack Traynor

OL

LB

5-2

8-2

2018

Phil Berton

Rocco Di Leo

Matt Kaskey

Patrick Kilcommons

Kyran McKinney-Crudden

Jackson Perry

Isiah Swann

Jack Traynor

OL

DL

OL

OL

DB

DL

DB

LB

6-1

9-1

2019

Nigel Alexander

Niko Lalos

Jackson Perry

Zach Sammartino

Isiah Swann

Jack Traynor

LB

DE

DL

OL

DB

LB


6-1

9-1

2020

No Season

2021

Evan Hecimovich

Jake Guidone

Nick Howard

Jalen Mackie

Isaiah Johnson

OL

OL

QB

LB

DB


6-1

9-1

2022

None

2-5

3-7


Green Alert Take: It would seem 2017 is the real outlier. An 8-2 overall record, 5-2 in the Ivy League and just two members of the All-Ivy first team? For what it's worth, the Big Green did have six players chosen to the second team and eight on the honorable-mention team.

So you know, I pulled up this listing as part of a project I'm working on for BGA Daily. Stay tuned. If I can get it done I think you'll find it interesting.

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Never know quite where notes for BGA Daily will come from. This one, believe it or not, is from a site called Briefly, which describes itself as “one of South Africa’s largest news and entertainment websites by audience and one of the top-earning brands on Facebook in Africa in 2021. Seriously? Yup.

But I digress. Briefly has a celebrity biography headlined, The personal life of Jeff Tietjens, Aisha Tyler's ex-husband. (LINK)

Tietjens' name is memorable enough that I dug out an old Dartmouth press guide to remind myself that he was an offensive lineman for the Big Green who lettered in 1990, his senior season. The bio out of South Africa agrees with the Dartmouth bio on most facts, but is way off in one regard. It lists him as standing 5-foot-8 and weighing 143 pounds. His Dartmouth bio has him at 6-foot-5, 245 pounds. 

Aisha Tyler, by the way, is an actress and comedian who was Dartmouth Class of ’92.

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EXTRA POINT
I am Pavlov's dog.

Robo the robot vacuum cleaner beeps when it sets off on its daily tour around our downstairs each morning. I am always upstairs in the BGA World Headquarters when I hear the beep and am conditioned upon hearing the sound to immediately spin and run downstairs to make sure a few doors are closed, the IOS charging wire is not dangling onto the floor, and that Griff hasn't left a toy out that will end up getting tangled under Robo like a charging cord will if I'm not careful.

Occasionally I remember to take care of those details after letting Griff out in the morning, but most days I'm at the mercy of Robo's beep.