Friday, July 14, 2023

Elsewhere

After two days posting about Ivy League teams, today we take a look at Dartmouth's nonconference opponents.

Here's how they fared the past five full seasons. (The strange spring 2020 seasons are not included.)

And now how those teams fared outside of their leagues last year, as well as who they are playing outside their conferences this fall:

NEW HAMPSHIRE (Colonial Athletic)
-This Year-
Sept. 2 at Stonehill
Sept. 9 at Central Michigan
Sept. 16 Dartmouth
-Last Year -
North Carolina Central – L 45-27
at Western Michigan – L 44-7
at Dartmouth – W 14-0
Fordham – W 52-42*
at Holy Cross – L 35-19*
*FCS playoffs

LEHIGH (Patriot League)
-This Year-
Sept. 2 Villanova
Sept. 9 at Merrimack
Sept. 16 Cornell
Sept. 23 at Dartmouth
Sept. 30 at Monmouth
-Last Year-
at Villanova – L 45-17
Richmond – L 30-6
at Princeton – L 29-17
Monmouth – L 35-7
at Cornell – L 19-15

COLGATE (Patriot League)
-This Year-
Sept. 2 at Syracuse
Sept. 9 at Villanova 
Sept. 16 Penn 
Sept. 30 at Cornell 
Oct. 14 Dartmouth 
-Last Year-
at Stanford – L 41-10
at Maine – W 21-18
at Penn – L 25-14
Cornell – L 34-31
at Army – L 42-17

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Harvard has come back to the Ivy League pack but Crimson players still get the benefit of the doubt:

 2023 #FCS Jersey Countdown: 50 — The Best Player Who Wears No. 50 Is @HarvardFootball's Thor Griffith (@thorgriff)https://t.co/AXsUMZuDGx

Green Alert Take: This is not to say the wonderfully named Thor Griffith doesn't deserve the accolade. He does. But two Harvard players being recognized as the best players in the nation wearing their number on back-to-back days?

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EXTRA POINT
I was in a public library yesterday and I was struck again by all the noise in the building. One fellow paying no attention to anyone around him was talking loudly on a Zoom call. A couple of kids were running around shouting. Even a librarian was speaking loudly to another.

Call me antediluvian but for me one of the pleasures of visiting the library as a kid was always the remarkable quiet. Every once in a while you'd hear one of the librarians whispering to a patron, a door creaking open or someone dropping a book on a table, but that was pretty much it. If someone did make noise, a librarian or fellow patron would shhh them. For lack of a better word, it felt like the sacred space it was.

Yesterday it sounded like I was at a mall.

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