Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Help Wanted

Going up yesterday on the NCAA website The Market; Careers in College Athletics, was a posting for an assistant football coach at Dartmouth College. The posting describes the position as 60 percent coaching/mentoring, 25 percent recruiting, 10 percent administration, 5 percent “other.”(LINK)

The opening came about because nickels coach Amaad Smith is no longer with the program after two seasons on the staff in Hanover.

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From an Athlon piece headlined, Colorado football: Transfers that have been standouts in Boulder (LINK):

Shane Cokes is a transfer that has gone slightly under the radar due to the fact he transferred out from an Ivy in Dartmouth, but he is someone who certainly will be an instant contributor across the defensive line. 

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It's now official.  Flo Orimolade '17 has parlayed a solid year with the Calgary Stampeders into a new contract with the Toronto Argonauts:

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HERO Sports has a nice piece on NFL Combine-bound Andrei Isoivas, the wide receiver who debated between attending Dartmouth and Princeton before ending up wearing the orange and black. From the story (LINK):

Iosivas’ track background should add to his value in the NFL draft.

He is a three-time Ivy League champion and First Team All-Ivy League selection in the heptathlon. He earned All-American honors at the 2022 NCAA Indoor Track championship by placing fourth in the heptathlon. Iosivas posted the fastest-ever 60-meter time (6.71) in the NCAA heptathlon during the 2022 indoor championships.

“I was told that time translates to a 4.28 time in the 40,” (Princeton coach Bob) Surace said.

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WMUR TV essayist/historian Fritz Wetherbee starts off his look at the origins of Hanover and Dartmouth College this way:

"The town of Hanover, NH and Dartmouth College have been so closely associated with one another that many think the town and the college were founded at the same time and that’s almost true. Actually, the first settlers here in Hanover arrived five years before the founders of the college did."

Watch the three-minute segment:

 

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EXTRA POINT
It has begun . . .

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Spotted these sap buckets hanging from sugar maples along the road between here and the trailhead yesterday. It takes 40 gallons of sap to boil down one gallon of syrup, which is why commercial sugaring operations now collect sap by running tubing from tree to tree rather than collecting buckets like these. The farmer up the hill from us has a sugarbush alongside our field that is crisscrossed by hundreds and hundreds of yards of blue plastic tubing that funnels the sap to a pump that sends it underground to his tanks.
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