A Dip Into The Record Book

Scrolling through the record book on a slow day I wondered where Nick Howard ranked among all-time Ivy League players in terms of rushing touchdowns. Slipping him into the list, here's what I found:

	No.	Name, School	Years
1	60	Clifton Dawson, Harvard	2003-06
2	54	Mike McLeod, Yale	2005-08
3	52	Nick Hartigan, Brown	2002-05
4	50	Ed Marinaro, Cornell	1969-71
5	49	Keith Elias, Princeton	1991-93
6	44	Chad Levitt, Cornell	1993-96
7	42	John Lovett, Princeton	2015-18
8	39	Michael Malan, Brown	1999-01
9	38	Quinn Epperly, Princeton	2011-14
10	34	NICK HOWARD, DARTMOUTH	2019-23
10	34	John Pagliaro, Yale	1975-77
10	34	Bryan Keys, Penn	1987-89
13	33	Kris Ryan, Penn	1998-01
14	32	Judd Garrett, Princeton	1987-89
14	32	Johnathan Reese, Columbia	1998-01
16	31	Tyler Varga, Yale	2012-14
17	30	Cosmo Iacavazzi, Princeton	1962-64
17	30	Adolph Bellizeare, Penn	1972-74
17	30	Robert Carr, Yale	2001-04
17	30	Dominick Pierre, Dartmouth	2010-13

Howard ran for 15 touchdowns in 2021, nine in 2022 and 10 in 2023.

Dominick Pierre '14 ran for four touchdowns as a freshman, four as a sophomore, nine as a junior and 13 as a senior to reach 30.

All-time Dartmouth rushing leader Nick Schwieger '12 did not have a rushing touchdown as a freshman, ran for two scores as a sophomore and then had 14 and 10 over his final two seasons to finish his career with 26 TDs on the ground.

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HERO Sports has updated its ranking of potential NFL Draft picks with two players Dartmouth faced landing in the top-10, including at No. 1 (LINK):

Yale offensive tackle Kiran Amegadjie 

Ranked: 1st overall among FCS prospects

Ranked: 10th overall at tackle

Ranked: 82nd overall

Projected Round: 2nd-3rd

New Hampshire running back Dylan Laube
Ranked: 9th overall among FCS prospects
Ranked: 16th overall at running back
Ranked: 229th overall
Projected Round: 6th-7th

Holy Cross product Jalen Coker was ranked fifth overall and 31st among wide receivers, and teammate CJ Hanson was ranked seventh overall and 13th among offensive guards.

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Per the New York Times: Sports Illustrated’s Employees Are Told Print Edition Will Close in May. (LINK)

Green Alert Take: It's a sign of how far the magazine has fallen. There was a time when it could be argued it offered the best magazine writing in the world, sports or otherwise.

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FootballScoop has a piece highlighting the different approach Deion Sanders takes to recruiting than more traditional coaches. Here's all you need to know (LINK):

Off-campus recruiting visits by Jim Harbaugh as Michigan coach: 145
Off-campus recruiting visits by Texas coach Steve Sarkisian: 128

Off-campus recruiting visits by Deion Sanders: 0

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Headline from AP story: NLRB certifies union to represent Dartmouth basketball players. (LINK)

Green Alert Take: Wake me when it's over.

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EXTRA POINT
Gearing up (literally) for our month-long rail excursion around the country Mrs. BGA and I are thinking about ways to pass the time. I've downloaded a handful of old movies and have a few books queued up to borrow from the library on my Kindle.

During our late-winter escapes camping on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean we'd usually play a lot of Scrabble but the tiles on the board we brought to use in the tent would slide around on the train. And the deluxe version with insets to hold the tiles that we bring with us in our VW bus would be a bit much to cart from train to train. After a little digging around in the basement, I found a travel Scrabble game a little smaller than a folded road map and no thicker. The little tiles are like Colorforms and stick nicely to the trifold board. Perfect!

Now, if we could just use the names of all the prescriptions advertised during the evening news! Of course if we could we would need more Q's and Z's and X's and J's. ;-)