Charting The Big Green, Part Three

The final entry in the annual Charting The Big Green follows Saturday's look at the offense and Sunday's look at the defense. As noted with each of those charts, details are per the official Dartmouth roster. Anticipate additions at returner and holder as well as back-up punter where at least one of the two freshman placekickers could fill in.

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With the offense, defense and special teams charts now behind us, here are a couple of other nuggets as we look ahead to next season.

The 2023 Dartmouth roster less than two weeks from the first practice (Aug. 19), features:

• 47 returning letterwinners
• 34 others returning
• 27 letterwinners lost

The 2023 roster by class:

• 5th Year Seniors - 8
• Seniors - 24
• Juniors - 27
• Sophomores - 23
• Freshmen - 27

That's 109 players total.

Per Dartmouth official statistics:

• Of 110 starts on offense last year (10 games x 11 positions), players responsible for 69 of those starts return this fall.
• Of 110 starts on offense last year, players responsible for 50 starts return this fall.

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The Ivy League preseason media poll is set to be released today and I'm going to take a shot at guessing how it will turn out. This is based on the pattern shown by previous polls (almost always overly reliant on the previous year's standings) as well as the dearth of information supplied to voters by the Ivy League prior to sending out ballots. For the record, this is not how I voted. ;-)

1. Yale
2. Princeton
3. Penn
4. Harvard
5. Dartmouth
6. Columbia 
7. Cornell
8. Brown

Once again, this is my guess at how the poll will turn out. It won't be exact, but it should be close. Check back later today to see how I did. ;-)

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EXTRA POINT
Although I have Apple Pages on my laptop and use it for some projects, I do most of my page layout work on another app. The Charting The Big Green graphics from the past several days were originally done on the non-Apple app, and while I could have recreated them on Pages, it was easier to simply update them on the old app.

But here's the deal: That app was on my old laptop and when I moved it over to the new laptop the license did not move with it. I was prompted, instead, to re-input the license string. Unfortunately, the only copy I had from the original 2016 purchase showed the first of a long series of letters and numbers followed by a line of X's. Without the proper license, the graphic would come up with UNLICENSED on a diagonal across the page after the "trial" period was over.

Hoping against hope that the overseas app developer would see my email, dig up the license and actually respond, I banged off a message on Friday and hit send.

When I turned the computer on this morning I had a very nice, personalized response with the license sent along by someone named Oleksandra. Turns out she and the developers are based in . . . Ukraine.