Dartmouth opens spring practice today with the forecast calling for 48 degrees and a 20 percent chance of rain when the team hits the field this afternoon. As always, there will be full coverage of the session tonight on BGA Premium. Each night's story should be posted by 11 p.m. Eastern.
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With news finally breaking that Marist will fill out Columbia's schedule with a visit to Wien Stadium on Oct. 7, the Ivy League football schedule for 2023 first posted on BGA on March 29 is now complete. Find the full schedule HERE.
Here are the 16 schools that show up on Ivy League nonconference schedules in 2023 and who is playing them:
• Bryant (Brown, Princeton)
• Bucknell (Cornell, Penn)
• Central Connecticut (Brown)
• Colgate (Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn)
• Georgetown (Columbia Penn)
• Holy Cross (Harvard, Yale)
• Howard (Harvard)
• Lafayette (Columbia, Princeton)
• Lehigh (Cornell, Dartmouth)
• Marist (Columbia)
• Morgan State (Yale)
• New Hampshire (Dartmouth)
• Rhode Island (Brown)
• Sacred Heart (Yale)
• San Diego (Princeton)
• St. Thomas (Harvard)
Here's a breakdown by conference of the Ivy nonconference opponents:
• Patriot League - 13 games (Colgate 3, Bucknell, Georgetown, Holy Cross, Lafayette, Lehigh 2 each)
• Pioneer - 3 games (Marist, San Diego, St. Thomas)
• Big South - 2 games (Bryant 2)
• CAA - 2 games (New Hampshire, Rhode Island)
• MEAC - 2 games (Howard, Morgan State)
• NEC - 2 games (Central Connecticut, Sacred Heart)
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Erin Craig, who some will remember from an internship in the 2019 preseason, is another member of the Buddy Teevens women's coaching tree starting to move up the ranks in football. Craig, an Ontario native who played football in France, and is now the defensive backs/strength coach at St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, will spent time in training camp with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers as part of the Canadian Football League's Women in Football Program. Dartmouth University gets a quick mention in a story about her spring assignment HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
Griff the Wonder Dog is incredibly well-behaved but he has one peccadillo. Whenever That Certain Dartmouth '14 Facetime calls us Griff starts whining and nudging us. Mrs. BGA and I can be sitting next to each other on the couch watching TV and chatting with each other and Griff does nothing. But he somehow realizes a Facetime call is different and acts up.
It happens every time TCD'14 calls and the only way to continue our conversation is to toss a few dog treats down the stairs and lock Griff in the basement until our call is over.
Because we know he doesn't like being banished to the basement and we don't like sending him down there, last night we tried something different. Mrs. BGA and I went into our guest room and closed the door, allowing Griff to continue to have the run of the house while we Facetimed.
So what happened? Griff stood directly on the other side of the guest room door whining at us.
Maybe next time we'll banish ourselves to the basement and see what happens.