Wide receiver Dale Chesson '23, who showed great promise with the Big Green when he was healthy – finishing second on the team in receptions in 2021 despite missing the first six games – has joined the University of Michigan Wolverines football program.
Graduating from Dartmouth in November as an engineering modified with public policy major, Chesson is following in the steps of older brother Jehu, a first-team all-Big Ten wide receiver at Michigan in 2015. Jehu was drafted by Kansas City in the fourth round of the 2017 NFL draft and in addition to the Chiefs spent time with the Washington football team and the New York Jets.
Dale Chesson finished his Dartmouth career with 29 catches for 259 yards and two touchdowns. After playing in all 10 games as a freshman in 2019, he missed the 2020 season because of COVID, appeared in four games in 2021, and just two last fall because of injury.
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Yomi Babalola, a 6-foot-1, 230-pound Dartmouth linebacker sidelined as a freshman last fall, is a member of the Big Green track team this winter, competing in the shot and weight events. A graduate of James C. Enochs High School from Riverbank, Calif., Babalola holds his high school records in the shot and discus, winning league championships in both events as a senior. Find his bio HERE.
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Kudos to Dartmouth sports for pulling up this clip of Niko Lalos '20 chipping in on a tackle for loss in the XFL Seattle Sea Dragons' opening game:
Former Big Green standout Niko Lalos started off his XFL season with the @XFLSeaDragons with a batted ball, and this assisted TFL! #TheWoods pic.twitter.com/6H24tcSGZo
— Dartmouth Football (@DartmouthFTBL) February 22, 2023
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The USFL held its draft yesterday and the lone Ivy Leaguer among the FCS players chosen was former Harvard defensive end Truman Jones, taken in the fourth round, 29th overall, by the Philadelphia Stars. Per this scouting report he explored the transfer portal before choosing to go pro.
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The local Valley News has a look back at the life of the late Anthony Rocchio, the onetime Hanover High School head football coach who many around Dartmouth came to know as the friendly monitor at the front of Alumni Gym in his retirement. Rocchio famously led Hanover football to its first win over archrival Lebanon in decades in the early '80s with one of Dartmouth coach Joe Yukica's sons at quarterback. As Hanover coach he sometimes made use of former Big Green players on his coaching staff.
Rocchio left the Upper Valley for a few years when Gary Walters, the former Dartmouth head basketball coach, brought him to Providence as an academic advisor in the Friars' basketball program.
Find his story HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
This is too good. Look closely to see what's really happening:
On the Tambach track in Kenya these shadows cast giant forms, a perspective seen here at sunrise pic.twitter.com/E2rB6Z8BbN
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) February 20, 2023