Sack-Misers!

Dartmouth football social media has posted this from the 2023 Ivy League championship season:

That sent me scurrying to find the FCS top-20 in fewest sacks allowed, where the Ivy League teams not among the 20 ranked, and who the bottom team in the category was and did.

		G	W-L	S	Yds	SPG
1	DARTMOUTH	10	6-4	5	29	0.50
2	Drake	12	8-4	7	73	0.58
3	Illinois St.	11	6-5	7	54	0.64
3	South Carolina St.	11	5-6	7	36	0.64
3	The Citadel	11	0-11	7	53	0.64
6	South Dakota	15	15-0	11	72	0.73
7	Southern Utah	11	6-5	9	76	0.82
7	UC Davis	11	7-4	9	53	0.82
9	W. Carolina	11	7-4	10	63	0.91
10	Montana St.	12	8-4	11	70	0.92
11	South Dakota	13	10-3	13	97	1.00
12	Lehigh	11	2-9	12	55	1.09
12	UT Martin	11	8-3	12	82	1.09
14	Abilene Christian	11	5-6	13	96	1.18
15	PENN	10	6-4	12	70	1.20
16	Sacramento St.	13	8-5	16	120	1.23
17	Central Conn. St.	11	3-8	14	109	1.27
17	Eastern Ky.	11	5-6	14	89	1.27
19	CORNELL	10	3-7	13	92	1.30
20	Chattanooga	13	8-5	17	87	1.31
20	Florida A&M	13	12-1	17	115	1.31
37	BROWN	10	5-5	16	106	1.60
68	YALE	10	7-3	21	145	2.10
73	COLUMBIA	10	3-7	22	166	2.25
97	HARVARD	10	8-2	27	187	2.70
97	PRINCETON	10	5-5	27	155	2.73
122	W. Illinois	11	0-11	50	372	4.55

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Getting a bit of a jump on Dartmouth, at least, Penn starts spring football practice tonight. (LINK)

The Big Green will be on the field for the first time on April 2, one week from Tuesday.

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A reminder that Dartmouth men's hockey will be on the ice at 7:30 tonight playing No. 14 Cornell in the ECAC semifinals at 1980 Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid. The game will be streamed on ESPN+.

Dartmouth is 13-9-9 overall and 9-6-7 in the ECAC and was seeded fourth. Cornell is 19-6-6 overall, 12-6-4 in the ECAC and was seeded second.

The winner of the game will take on the winner of the evening's first matchup between top-seeded Quinnipiac (26-8-2; 17-4-1 ECAC) and seventh-seeded St. Lawrence (13-18-6; 8-10-4 ECAC) tomorrow.

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EXTRA POINT

Hooray!

This picture of my electric lawn tractor in front of the BGA World Headquarters should give you a sense of the expanse of grass and field I'm going to be cutting in a few weeks. When the tractor went on the "players unable to perform" list early last August it meant hours and hours walking behind a self-propelled John Deere mower to cut our large lawn – and finding someone to hay our field before the first snow fell.

Multiple calls to the tractor manufacturer's help line brought a few suggestions on what might be wrong and what to do about it, but none worked.  Because electric tractors are a foreign language to the folks who sell and service John Deere, Husqvarna and the like, it was starting to look as if I had just two options. Either the thing would have to be shipped back to the manufacturer for repair – an expensive proposition that could take two months – or I could sell it "as is," and plunk down money for a gas model.

Fortunately, a neighbor pointed me to a local business that, wonder of wonders, actually has experience with these things. Not only were they able to get this one back up and running, they did so at a surprisingly reasonable price – in less than two weeks.

Of course, it may be a little longer until the tractor returns to action. The latest forecast this morning has us looking at 15 or more inches of snow starting tonight.