Friday, November 17, 2023

Buckle Up

Find Dartmouth's game notes for The Tussle at Brown tomorrow HERE.

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The Ivy League's official preview is HERE.

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There's not much here except you might get a chuckle out of, "Dartmouth traveling up to Brown."

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Count Roar Lions blogger Jake Novak as predicting – although without 100 percent conviction – the Big Green will earn a share of the crown. From his post predicting tomorrow's games (LINK):

Dartmouth -2½  at Brown
This could end up being the best game of the weekend. I wouldn't be surprised if it goes either way, but I think Dartmouth will bring it's A game on defense. 

Yale -1½ vs. Harvard
Yes I am picking Yale to win and tie for the title, (and possibly pull Dartmouth into a 3-way tie for the championship too)

Jake's power rankings heading into the final Saturday:

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

Of Dartmouth he writes:

The Big Green should be proud and giddy about their very decent chances of tying for the Ivy title if they can beat Brown. 

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Sam Koscho addresses his teammates as the Hard-Nose winner.

At the end of practice yesterday the Dartmouth training staff announced safety Sam Koscho as the winner of this year's Hard-Nose Award which they have described this way:

"Chosen by the Athletic Training Staff, the recipient of this award that has fought through hardship the right way in conjunction with the Athletic Trainers and contributed to the team!

From last night's BGA Premium report:

(Head coach Sammy) McCorkle, who did not know the winner of the award until (trainer Ben) Schuler announced it, gave the choice a figurative double thumbs up.

“You couldn’t come up with a better individual to win that award with everything he’s been through and dealt with,” the coach said. “He had a hamstring and then a plate in his ankle that kept him out all last year. Then another hamstring this year. It’s been one thing after another and he never blinked an eye.

“He just came back fighting. He was unassuming and never made a big deal about it. He just worked hard and did his thing. That’s him. He was the perfect choice.”

All-time Hard-Nose winners: 

2023 – Sam Koscho
2022 – Nick Howard
2021 – Donald Carty
2021 – Tanner Cross
2019 – David Chalmers
2018 – Andrew Yohe
2017 – Darius George
2016 – Flo Orimolade
2015 – Eric Wickham
2014 – AJ Dillione
2013 - Chase Womack, Elliot Kastner
2012 - Garrett Wymore
2011 - John Gallagher
2010 - Luke Hussey
2009 - Peter Pidermann
2008 - Joe Battaglia
2007 - Taylor Layman
2006 - Joe Gibalski
2005 - Charles Ganske
2004 - Derham Cato
2003 - Lyle Campbell
2002 - Bob Reeves
2001 - Matt Mercer
2000 - Dan Hutchinson
1999 - Tom Reusser
1998 - Kyle Rogers
1997 - Keith Lockwood
1996 - Jeff Schmitt
1995 - Taran Lent
1994 - Josh Bloom
1993 - Chris Umscheid
1992 - Neal Martin
1991 - Al Rosier
1990 - Tim Meier
1989 - Harris Siskind
1988 - David Gazzaniga
1987 - Lance High
1986 - John Randolph
1985 - Slade Schuster
1984 - Harry Bourque
1983 - Mark Pare
1982 - Gary Spiegelman
1981 - John Merriman
1980 - Tom Marek
1979 - John Clark
1978 - Nigel Key
1977 - Dave Casper
1976 - Jim Lucas
1975 - Dan Murphy
1974 - Brian Wroczynski
1973 - Rick Gerardi
1972 - Doug Jaeger
1971 - Brendan O’Neill, Stu Simms
1970 - Giff Foley

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Dartmouth quarterback commit Kyle Meier of Whitesboro, N.Y., has been selected his local Toyota High School Athlete of the Week and is the subject of a story and TV report HERE. From the story:

Through eleven games this season, Meier has completed 75 of 120 passing attempts for 1,655 yards, thrown for 21 touchdowns, and just one interception. On the ground, he's run for 1,827 yards and 27 touchdowns.

Meier is listed at 6-foot-3 and 225 pounds. 

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A couple of Dartmouth's fifth-year seniors have entered the transfer portal: 

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EXTRA POINT
We've been using our three free months of Apple TV+ to watch Ted Lasso, which we are enjoying immensely. An extra reason why were are enjoying it: We have closed captioning on during the show. It's very helpful when people with English accents speak fast.

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