The Wise Guys have spoken and installed Dartmouth as a 7½ -point favorite at Colgate.
Elsewhere it’s . . .
• Princeton favored at Brown by 7.
• Columbia favored at home over Penn by 1.
• Cornell a 10½-point favorite at home over Bucknell.
• Harvard an 11½-point favorite at home over Howard.
• Yale is a 21½ -point favorite at home over Sacred Heart.
And in case you are curious:
* New Hampshire is a 3-point favorite at home over Albany.
* Georgetown is a 1-point favorite at Lehigh.
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Jake Novak down at the Roar Lions blog has his new power rankings out and they look like this:
1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Dartmouth
4. Penn
5. Brown
6. Princeton
7. Columbia
8. Cornell
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Here's a 22-minute package of Dartmouth-Yale highlights:
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A reminder that the Dartmouth-Colgate game on Saturday will be carried on ESPN+.
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It will be Homecoming over in Hamilton this weekend and at Dartmouth next weekend when Columbia comes to Hanover. The college's website is already pushing the celebration with a story headlined, Homecoming Weekend: Tours, Treats, Teams, and Traditions; President Beilock and the Class of 2027 will share their first Big Green bonfire. Find the story HERE.
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This is a bit of an eye-opener:
I am officially opening up my recruitment, thankful for God, my family, friends, and girlfriend. 5'11 230 LB Division 1 Runningback, 2 years of eligibility remaining. pic.twitter.com/YY0A4hZgg9
— Joey Richmond (@jtrjr46) October 10, 2023
Richmond is still a hard-working member of the Dartmouth football team and was out on the field practicing yesterday like always. Check out BGA Premium for an update tonight.
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Penn has a story headlined, Remembering The Late, Great Penn Head Coach Jerry Berndt about the longtime Dartmouth assistant (1971-78) who engineered the huge turnaround of Penn football fortunes in the early 1980's. It was Berndt who gave Buddy Teevens his first coaching job. Find the story HERE.
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Dartmouth has a story headlined Dartmouth To Induct 39 New Members Into Wearers of the Green; This year’s class includes 38 club sport athletes and a masters champion. The story includes this (LINK):
Wearers of the Green, essentially the Dartmouth Athletics Hall of Fame, was created in 1984 to honor students, alumni and coaches who have met specific criteria for athletic excellence in their respective sports.
Of the 39 new members, 25 were members of various women's fencing clubs that won national titles, six were members of the men's fencing club that won a national title in 2014, two were club figure skaters who won national championships and three were club water polo national champions. None of those were varsity athletes.
Green Alert Take: OK, this isn't going to make me very popular but Wearers of the Green is not a hall of fame. Don't get me wrong. I think club sports are great. That Certain Nittany Lion '16 made the club golf team at Penn State and played at nationals and I'm proud of him for that accomplishment. But club sports are something entirely different from intercollegiate varsity sports. Here's hoping that AD Mike Harrity, not hamstrung by the history of how the Wearers of the Green evolved, will give some thought to keeping Wearers going while at the same time establishing a true Dartmouth hall of fame.
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EXTRA POINT
Spoke on the phone yesterday with a former Dartmouth coach who mentioned that he was flipping through a few clippings and came across a story I wrote about him in 1989. Two thoughts.
First, as a writer it's important to keep in mind that the old saying, "Today’s news is tomorrow’s fish and chip wrappers," isn't always the case. While I will admit the daily copy I churn out on BGA Premium might fit that description, I took the opposite approach writing stories for Dartmouth football programs the last 20 years or so and before that writing profiles at the newspaper. I agonized over them, at least in part because I tried to remember they'd be clipped and saved and passed around by families and friends of the people I was writing about.
And second, if that 1989 story had appeared online and not in print, it would have been lost to time unless it had been printed out. Sure, it might have been saved on a disc or hard drive and might even still be online, but good luck ever finding it.
Yet another reason to lament the plight of newspapers (as well as hard-copy football programs).
