Thursday, February 16, 2023

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Montcalm Golf Club

Great news! From a mailing that went out yesterday:

We are excited to announce the return of the Dartmouth Football Golf Classic! This year's tournament will be held at the new home of Dartmouth Golf, the Montcalm Golf Club in Enfield, New Hampshire (15 minute drive from campus) on Saturday, June 17.

And . . .

Online registration will be open on March 15.

Tentative Schedule
• 11:00am: Shuttle service from campus to Montcalm Golf Club
• 11:30am: Registration and lunch
• 1:00pm: Shotgun start
• 6:00pm: Post-round reception 

The Dartmouth Football Golf Classic faded away with the closing of Hanover Country Club during the pandemic and the disappointing decision to shutter the venerable layout for good.

Stay tuned for more information about the return of the Dartmouth Football Golf Classic at Montcalm's beautiful mountaintop layout!

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With 18 football players from Ann Arbor's Huron High School celebrating their college decisions you have to look closely to find Dartmouth-bound defensive end/outside linebacker Bruce Williams on the left side of the back row under the royal blue banner. From an earlier BGA posting on Williams:

William  recorded a Michigan state record 26 sacks last fall, including six in one game. The 6-foot-2 Williams, listed variously at 235 and 245 pounds, also forced six fumbles while making the Division 1-2 all-state first team.

Williams' Twitter notes offers from Princeton, Columbia, Miami (Ohio), James Madison, Kent State, Ball State, Western Michigan, Morgan State and Arkansas State. Per 247Sports, Rivals and other national sources Purdue, West Virginia, Louisville and Marshall also offered.

 Williams was the first of the players interviewed for this short video:

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Spring, summer and camping season are on the way!

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A writer for the Daily Pennsylvanian pulled together a column headlined, The greatest athlete in every Ivy League school's history and here's who he chose for each school (LINK):

Brown — Becky Kellar-Duke, defender and second base, hockey and softball, Class of 1997

Columbia — Lou Gehrig, first baseman/pitcher, baseball, Did Not Graduate

Cornell — Ken Dryden, goaltender, hockey, Class of 1969

Dartmouth — Reggie Williams, linebacker and heavyweight, football and wrestling, Class of 1976

Harvard — Matt Birk, center, football, Class of 1998

Penn — Chuck Bednarik, linebacker/center, football, Class of 1949

Princeton — Emily Goodfellow, squash, lacrosse, field hockey, Class of 1976

Yale — Don Schollander, swimmer, Class of 1969

Green Alert Take: For a great many of you – perhaps most of you – your mileage may vary. ;-)

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EXTRA POINT
On my old laptop I had to have several keys replaced because I wore a pea-sized hole right through them. I've written about the print wearing off my bluetooth keyboard before, but it's only gotten worse. I suppose that shouldn't be a surprise given that for BGA Premium each year I write roughly the same number of words as an early Harry Potter novel. Oh, and I spend somewhere in the vicinity of 800 hours a year tickling the keyboard for BGA Daily digging up nuggets and pulling this silly thing together. (Wait just a minute! That's 20 40-hour weeks a year doing nothing but this? I gotta get a life ;-)

But I digress. As you can see below, the E, A, S, D, L, C, N and M keys on my keyboard are now blank. (I had to look at the keyboard on the computer itself to be able to build that list.) It isn't a problem when I am typing sentences like this because my fingers generally go to the right keys without thkining. Make that thinking. (That was a joke.) 

Ah, but wish me luck typing in a password when it is something like dSDl+CaS&e. For as much as I type every day, I can stare at my keyboard and have absolutely no idea what letter has been worn off when I am hunting & pecking to type in passwords one character at a time. Or filling in online forms.

That being the case, I'm going to take a Sharpie, print in the proper letters and then cover them with a clear lacquer so they don't wear off easily. The Adrian Monk in me knows no matter how neatly I print them it will bug me that they look different, but it will be worth it for all the frustration it eliminates.

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