An Idea

Following up on yesterday's breaking news of Dartmouth renaming the Big Green football facility Buddy Teevens Stadium at Memorial Field, the AP has a story HERE.

It may be a little early to think of signage recognizing the name change, but I have an idea for something that would be pretty special:

I'd love to see Dartmouth add a 5-yard line honoring Teevens' uniform number as the Bushnell Cup-winning quarterback for the 1978 Ivy League champions. I suppose they could add his signature below the 5, but I kind of like the idea of using just the digit so that curious newcomers to the stadium might be brought to ask regulars the story behind the number.

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Dartmouth has named its second new position coach with Braxton Chapman taking over running back duties from Danny O'Dea, now director of recruiting.

 Super excited to join the @DartmouthFTBL family and looking forward to bringing another championship to #TheWoods🌲 https://t.co/N3SaRLKCLH

— Braxton Chapman (@Coach_BChapman) February 21, 2024

Chapman was most recently an offensive graduate assistant at Coastal Carolina. A native of Farrell, Pa., he played three years at running back for Youngstown State before finishing up at Northern Illinois.

Dan Herbert was named wide receivers coach earlier this month, stepping in for David Shula.

Green Alert Take: Hopefully there will be stories with a little background about the two coaches forthcoming instead of just social media posts.

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Former quality control coach Jennifer King is the subject of a story about her new role with the Chicago Bears. (LINK) 

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EXTRA POINT
If you've been following along you know that I had a free holiday weekend trial of Newspapers.com and dug up a bunch of stories I wrote for the local daily and at my newspaper in central Pennsylvania.

I also found a 115-year-old story out of Nevada that has special meaning to my family. Here's a headline from a 1909 issue of The Daily Appeal out of Carson City:

That's my great, great grandfather. The story begins:

Every man, woman and child in Carson City knows Orrin Beckstead, that gray-haired kindly old pioneer and Mexican War veteran you see every day on the streets, and who proudly bears aloft the flag of the country on state occasions as the sole survivor of the Mexican War.

And I liked this remembrance years later of his daughter, my great-grandmother, who the story introduced as "one of the oldest natives of Nevada:"

Mrs. Wood was the daughter of the late Orrin and Jane Beckstead, ole-time Nevada residents. She was born in the Clear Creek Canyon area when the wood flumes there brought down logs from the high mountains. 

And yup, it actually says "ole-time."