Names And Numbers

You asked for it, you got it.

There used to be a TV commercial for a Japanese automaker that began that way. It's early in the process and there are just a few names, but you asked for the Dartmouth commit list and now you've got it:

• TE John Bancone, 6-5, 220, Phillips Andover/Summit, N.J.

• QB Jaden Cummings, 6-0, 185, Summerville HS/Charleston, S.C.

• DL Peter Owolabi, 6-3, 272, Asheville School (N.C.)/Ottawa, Ont.

Green Alert Take: That's all I've got so far. Maybe there are more, but that's all I've seen. BGA Premium may have sunsetted but this site will still post recruiting news as it becomes available. Feel free to send along names and corrections. ;-)

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Dartmouth announced home football games this fall will kick off at 1 p.m., with the exception of the Nov. 2 Homecoming game against Harvard, which will begin at 1:30. With a little digging, here are the available game times for the entire season, home and away*:

Sept. 21 Fordham – 1 p.m.

Sept. 28 at Merrimack – 1 p.m.

Oct. 5 Penn – 1 p.m.

Oct. 12 at Yale – 12 p.m.

Oct. 19 Central Connecticut – 1 p.m.

Oct. 26 at Columbia – TBD

Nov. 2 Harvard  – 1:30 p.m.

Nov. 8 at Princeton – 6 p.m.

Nov. 15 at Cornell – 1 p.m.

Nov. 23 Brown – 1 p.m.

* That's subject to change, of course.

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From a story headlined, What’s new for the 2024 UMass Minutemen? (LINK): 

Middle linebacker Mackin Ayers and free safety Leonard St. Gourdin come from a Dartmouth defense that allowed only 20 points per game the last two seasons. Ayers had 79 tackles and was a first-team all-Ivy League selection, while St. Gourdin had immense playmaking ability with eight pass breakups and two forced fumbles with the Big Green last year.

These two players headline a group of transfers scattered across the Minutemen defensive unit. There is nowhere to go but up from last year. Ayers and St. Gourdin provide some hope for UMass fans. 

And from one headlined, UVA Football Preview: ‘Hoos should be strong in the trenches, where it matters (LINK):

Dartmouth grad transfer Ethan Sipe, logged 672 snaps at right tackle over the past two seasons, and allowed just three sacks on 282 pass dropbacks, with a PFF grade of 69.6 in 2023.

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This is kind of special.

Something called Admissions.blog that offers help to those applying to college, has a headline reading, New Dartmouth Essay Prompts Feature Football and Wild Chimpanzees. Here's one of the essay prompts (LINK):

Buddy Teevens ’79 was a legendary and much-beloved coach at Dartmouth. He often told parents: “Your son will be a great football player when it’s football time, a great student when it’s academic time, and a great person all of the time.” If Coach Teevens had said that to you, what would it mean to be “a great person”?

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EXTRA POINT
Between graduating from a college with an outdoor bent and working around the country for the National Park Service, That Certain Dartmouth '14 has run into people she knows on trails and mountaintops all across the Lower 48 states.

You can now add Alaska to the places where TCD'14 has come across people she knows.

Gearing up for today's re-opening of Denali National Park – closed for a week because of wildfires – she met two people yesterday who she worked with in the Everglades, and another she worked with at Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park.

She hasn't yet come across any Dartmouth folks but she'll be in the 49th state for almost two weeks and the odds seem pretty good that will change. ;-)