The local Valley News did not cover the second half of the Dartmouth season and was not at Brown on Saturday but had a news writer cobble together a story of sorts abut the Big Green winning a share of the Ivy League championship HERE.
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The Brown Daily Herald has a story about Saturday's game from the home team's perspective HERE.
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TigerBlog voices what a lot of people may have been feeling on Saturday. From his column HERE:
Around 3 or so this past Saturday afternoon, or an hour before Princeton finished off its season with a 31-24 win at Penn, TB sat in one of the last places the sun still reached at Franklin Field and watched the last 10 minutes of the game between Yale and Harvard.
Which team was he rooting for in that one? Dartmouth.
With Princeton eliminated from the Ivy League football race one week earlier, TigerBlog wanted to see Dartmouth win a championship. Never has an Ivy team deserved one more, after what the Big Green went through the entire off-season and into the season after the horrific injury and subsequent death of its beloved coach, Buddy Teevens.
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David Archer, who in his final game at Dartmouth shared heartfelt thoughts about Buddy Teevens HERE, was let go yesterday as head coach at Cornell. Archer was quoted in a Cornell release after he was dismissed (LINK):
""Cornell University has been home to me since I was a college freshman, and I have a deep love of this place and this program. ...
"Though I'm proud of the many things we've accomplished, unfortunately the results on the field dictate that it is time for new leadership. I look forward to my role as a positive, supportive alumnus of the program that I love so much and will always cheer for the Big Red."
The Big Red was 3-7 overall this year and 2-5 in the Ivy League and 29-71 overall under Archer.
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The Ivy League's Sagarin Ratings after 10 games:
148. Yale (146)
159. Harvard (156)
174. Dartmouth (181)
177. Princeton (179)
186. Penn (180)
200. Columbia (205)
206. Brown (198)
222. Cornell (212)
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EXTRA POINT
Back when we lived on the shoulder of Moose Mountain during the third week or so of August I'd return my last book to our little library and tell the librarian, "I'll see you a few days before Thanksgiving." Such is how busy football season always is for me.
Well, it's a few days before Thanksgiving. We no longer live on Moose Mountain and while there's a nice little library here in town it's not open today. But my Kindle is fully charged again and within hitting seconds of the "publish" button on this site I'm going to visit Vermont's online Green Mountain Library Consortium and download the latest Grisham or Baldacci or Connelly and get lost in a book for the first time since August. Can't wait.
