Timely

Game times now have been posted for Dartmouth with all home games at 1:30, night games against New Hampshire and Princeton and an unusual 4 p.m. start at Harvard. All will be available on ESPN+ ecept the opener, which can be seen on the FloSports site for a small charge.

Sept. 16 at New Hampshire,  6 p.m., FloSports

Sept. 23 vs. Lehigh, 1:30 p.m, ESPN+

Sept. 30 at Pennsylvania, 1 p.m., ESPN+

Oct. 7 vs. Yale, 1:30 p.m., ESPN+

Oct. 14 at Colgate, 1 p.m., ESPN+

Oct. 21 vs. Columbia, 1:30 p.m, ESPN+

Oct. 28 at Harvard, 4 p.m.,  ESPN+

Nov. 3 vs. Princeton, 7 p.m.,  ESPNU

Nov. 11 Cornell, 1:30 p.m, ESPN+

Nov. 18 at Brown, 12 p.m, ESPN+

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A story out of Wyoming (don't post links to many of those ;-) about a new head coach at the high school sending kicker Matisse Weaver to Dartmouth includes this (LINK):

Coach Burton added another name to the list of players he’ll be missing: Matisse Weaver, Lander’s superstar kicker and offensive Swiss Army Knife who signed with Dartmouth University (sic) earlier this summer. 

“If you can kick the ball into the endzone every time, that’s huge,” Coach Burton said about Weaver. “But there are some people we are going to have to try and replace. I don’t know if you can ever truly replace any of them, we’ll just have to adapt and make our style fit the kids we have.”

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With Michigan posting its 2023 roster the media noticed something on the roster. The 247Sports site has a story headlined, Michigan adds Jehu Chesson's brother as graduate transfer wide receiver; One of the Wolverines' less-publicized transfer additions brings a familiar name back to Michigan's sideline. From the story (LINK):

Though the Michigan football team added several high-profile transfers this offseason, one of the Wolverines' less-publicized transfer additions brings a familiar name back to Michigan's sideline. Dale Chesson, a 6-foot-1 receiver out of Dartmouth, will follow in his brother Jehu's footsteps and play for the maize and blue this fall.

The younger Chesson, believed to be a walk-on addition and listed on Michigan's fall roster released Wednesday, caught 29 passes for 341 yards in 16 games for the Big Green over three active seasons. He struggled with injuries, but showed promise in the 2021 season with 21 catches, 259 yards and two touchdowns in just four games. Last fall, he failed to record a catch in two games played.  

The story ends this way:

As a recruit, he recorded a verified 40-yard dash time of 4.57 seconds, a shuttle run time of 4.50 seconds and a vertical leap of 33.2 inches.

Though his role at Michigan is unclear and statistical expectations are low, the younger Chesson is also in Ann Arbor to get a graduate degree with the Ross School of Business. 

He also gets a mention this a Maize N Brew story HERE. 

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Speaking of grad transfers, a story about Old Dominion football headlined Here are Some of the 58 Newcomers Who Will Play Key Roles for ODU Football includes this (LINK):

The offensive line gained experience and size from Tulane in redshirt freshman Keanon McNally (6-8, 326, Kearny, Missouri), Grambling State graduate transfer Chris Chernak Jr. (6-8, 316, redshirt senior, Brooklyn, New York) and Dartmouth transfer Michael Flores (6-3, 295, redshirt senior, Arlington, Texas). 

Flores was a reserve as a junior but started 10 games for Dartmouth in 2022. He is a graduate transfer. All three are expected to play this fall.

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The Bluebloods site, which does a nice job covering FCS football, has announced its preseason All-Ivy League team and it looks like this (LINK):

FIRST TEAM OFFENSE

QB: Blake Stenstrom (Princeton)

QB: Nolan Grooms (Yale)

RB: Joshua Pitsenberger (Yale)

RB: Tre Peterson (Yale)

WR: Bryson Canty (Columbia)

WR: Wes Rockett (Brown)

WR: Mason Tipton (Yale)

TE: Tyler Neville (Harvard)

OL: Kiran Amegadjie (Yale)

OL: Jalen Travis (Princeton)

OL: Austin Gentle (Harvard)

OL: Micah Sahakian (Cornell)

OL: Jacob Rizy (Harvard)

FIRST TEAM DEFENSE

DL: Thor Griffith (Harvard)

DL: Clay Patterson (Yale)

DL: Justin Townsend (Columbia)

DL: Nate Leskovec (Harvard)

LB: Liam Johnson (Princeton)

LB: Macklin Ayers (Dartmouth)

LB: Hamilton Moore (Yale)

LB: Ozzie Nicholas (Princeton)

DB: Wande Owens (Yale)

DB: Kendren Smith (Penn)

DB: Paul Lewis III (Cornell)

DB: Jaden Key (Penn)

DB: Quinten Arello (Dartmouth)

FIRST TEAM SPECIAL TEAMS

K: Jack Bosman (Yale)

P: Sebastien Tasko (Harvard)

RS: Julian Stokes (Penn)

SECOND TEAM OFFENSE:

QB: Jameson Wang (Cornell)

RB: Joey Giorgi (Columbia)

RB: Q Jones (Dartmouth)

WR: David Pantelis (Yale)

WR: Joshua Casilli (Penn)

WR: Ledger Hatch (Harvard)

TE: Matt Robbert (Cornell)

OL: Jonathan Mendoza (Yale)

OL: Jake Ligos (Penn)

OL: Jack Karhu (Yale)

OL: Nicholas Schwitzgebel (Dartmouth)

OL: Jackson Bradley (Cornell)

SECOND TEAM DEFENSE

DL: Tyler Huenemann (Harvard)

DL: Jonathan Melvin (Penn)

DL: Charles Looes (Dartmouth)

DL: Joey Slackman (Penn)

LB: Jake Stebbins (Cornell)

LB: Matt Hudson (Harvard)

LB: Jack Fairman (Penn)

LB: Joseph Vaughn (Yale)

LB: Will Perez (Princeton)

DB: Cooper DeVeau (Brown)

DB: Sean Williams (Dartmouth)

DB: Isaiah Reed (Brown)

DB: Jalen Newman (Princeton)

DB: Sean Guyton (Yale)

SECOND TEAM SPECIAL TEAMS

K: Graham Gotlieb (Penn)

P: Jack Bosman (Yale)

RS: Wes Rockett (Brown)

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The Dartmouth athletics site has a story about former Big Green defensive lineman and captain Mike Rabil '06 and his journey to founding the Premier Lacrosse League along with his brother Paul, an all-time great college lacrosse player at Johns Hopkins. Mike Rabil from the story (LINK):

"Playing football at Dartmouth pushed me to dig deeper within myself than ever before to prove my commitment and resilience," he said. "It was the hardest I've ever worked at something. When something gets really hard today, I think back to the two-a-days I had to do for two and a half weeks straight playing against guys who were bigger, faster, stronger than me and also managing the academic rigor of Dartmouth."

Green Alert Take: Mike Rabil has started a good number of businesses but perhaps not the one he once told me he'd like to start. That was a restaurant that if I remember correctly, would have served Lebanese food.

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Two players Dartmouth will see this fall are on the preseason Payton Award Watchlist for the nation's outstanding offensive player at the FCS level per The Analyst. Named among 17 quarterbacks is Yale's Nolan Grooms. New Hampshire's Dylan Laube is listed among the dozen running backs mentioned.

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Pictured in the Tweet above (LINK) is Jennifer King, who spent one season at Dartmouth. and is now assistant running backs coach for the Washington Commanders. She joined the Big Green staff not long after Callie Brownson, now assistant wide receivers coach for the Cleveland Browns. Also mentioned in the story above is Tampa Bay Bucs assistant line coach Lori Locus, who spent a week of preseason observing Dartmouth practices.

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EXTRA POINT
With my brother in town from southern Indiana for a few days we're going to bring him up to Burlington, Vt., today and spend a little time on Church Street in the college town and on one of the ferries crossing between Vermont and New York on beautiful Lake Champlain. Highly encourage anyone coming to these parts for a few days to check out Burlington and the lake.