High Noon

Per The Weather Channel, it will be 51 degrees with a 9 percent chance of rain and the wind 13 mph out of the north-northwest at kickoff today at Brown. The chance of rain will drop throughout the game.

Kickoff is at noon for the Dartmouth-Brown and the Harvard-Yale games.

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This was posted on The Analyst site a few days ago and seems appropriate for today:

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As Crosby, Sills, Nash & Young sang on Déjà Vu, "We have all been here before." From a Harvard Crimson story (LINK):

The second time Tim Murphy stepped onto the hallowed grounds of the Yale Bowl, it was Nov. 22, 1997. Murphy, then 41, was in his fourth season as Harvard’s head coach. The Crimson held an 8-1 record going into the final game, having clinched at least a share of the Ivy League title the previous week with a 33-0 home victory over Penn.

Still, the job was far from complete. Harvard still had to beat Yale that afternoon in New Haven, Conn., to secure the conference title alone, as with a Crimson loss and Dartmouth victory over Princeton, the 7-2 Big Green would have shared the glory.

That day, Murphy came through, leading Harvard to a 17-7 victory, denying Dartmouth a share of the title and claiming his first Ivy League championship as the Crimson’s head coach, the program’s ninth overall.

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Will Dehmel has been doing a fine job covering Big Green football for The Dartmouth and has a story out of last week's win over Cornell HERE.

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EXTRA POINT
When I let Griff the Wonder Dog out this morning it was pitch black and I couldn't tell if the anticipated rain had started. I suppose I could have turned on the outdoor lights but this was easier. I just patted Griff on the head when he came back in. Yup, the rain had started. Maybe we should call him Griff the Weather Dog.