From a Dartmouth news release (LINK):
The late Buddy Teevens, former Dartmouth College Robert L. Blackman Head Football Coach, has been named recipient of the New England Football Writers George C. Carens Award presented to a person who through his or her life has made significant contributions to the sport of football In New England. The award will be presented at the New England Football Writers Captains and Awards Banquet on Thursday, December 7, at the Sheraton Framingham (Mass.) Hotel and Conference Center.
Also from the story:
Teevens is the fourth Dartmouth coach to be honored by the NEFW with the Carens Award. Tuss McLaughry (1955), Dave Morey (1978) and Joe Yukica (1986) are the previous recipients.
Green Alert Take: The others are familiar names but Dave Morey? Per Wikipedia he was anAall-America halfback at Dartmouth in 1912, captained the baseball team in 1913 and got into a few major league games as a pitcher with the Philadelphia Athletics that summer. Among other football coaching stops he spent three years heading up the program at Auburn. He coached football, basketball and baseball at Middlebury, and in addition to 10 years as head football coach at Bates he also coached the school's ice hockey team for a year.
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The details are on BGA Premium but here's what matters:
• If Dartmouth wins out and Harvard stumbles at Columbia, home against Penn or at Yale in The Game, the Big Green will earn at the very least a share of the Ivy League title at 5-2.
• There is a way Dartmouth can win the title outright with a 5-2 record. Again, it starts with a sweep of the final three games but then requires the rest of the league to cooperate. Spoiler alert: Yes, the odds are against it but there isn't a necessary result that would have you saying, That would never happen
• A seven-day tie at 4-3 is still possible and will still be possible if Dartmouth should lose to Princeton. Yes, the odds are off the charts but stranger things have happened. They have, right?
And then there's this from old friend Tiger Blog's post earlier this week that you might have missed (LINK):
Should Princeton win out, it would be assured of at least a tie for the championship. So would Harvard. And Yale. And Penn.
That's half the league that heads into November knowing that all it has to do is win its final three games to get a ring.
Green Alert Take: Dartmouth is not included in that list because while winning out would hand Princeton the all-important second loss the Big Green would need help from someone else knocking off Harvard.
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Craig Haley of The Analyst takes a look at some of the games in a "make-or-break month" and includes the Dartmouth-Princeton matchup. Haley writes (LINK):
Notable: Princeton is tied with Harvard for first place in the league, but the Tigers have dropped their last five games at Dartmouth. Linebacker Ozzie Nicholas leads the league in tackles (72) on a defense that’s ranked second in the FCS in fewest points allowed per game (13.1). The Big Green utilize multiple QBs, with Nick Howard (seven TD runs) leading on the ground and Dylan Cadwallader more in the air.
The Pick: Dartmouth
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1 - Harvard2- Yale3 - Princeton4 - Penn5 - Dartmouth6 - Brown7 - Cornell8 - Columbia
Of Dartmouth Roar Lions blogger Jake Novak writes:
The Big Green offense doesn't have enough punch to back up a strong D.
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And finally, from a timeline of Dartmouth football history, this happened 30 years ago late in the final game of the season:
Jay Fiedler's last game is his best. Dartmouth trails Princeton, 22-8 with 9:37 to play. He passes for one TD, then runs for another. A conversion pass ties the game, 22-22. In swirling snow, his 38-yard pass to John Hyland with 1:12 left gives Dartmouth a 28-22 win. He finishes with 6,684 career yards passing, 58 touchdown passes, and 7,249 yards of total offense, all Green records.
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EXTRA POINT
After two long years having our EV throttled to 80 percent charging because of a recall, we finally got the all-clear yesterday and charged overnight to a full 100 percent. Because charging slows down and therefore becomes more expensive between 80 and 100 percent, many – if not most – EV owners juice up to only 80 percent at public chargers and that's a protocol we will continue to follow. But thanks to the solar tracker we had installed that covers our electric bills in full, we can now charge the car to 100 percent here at our Vermont hillside home. It's all good!
