Thanks in no small part to injuries, James McCarthy’s ’23 career as a Dartmouth offensive lineman never panned out the way he might have hoped. But the personable son of the winningest high school football coach in Connecticut history is carving his own path in the game after serving as a student coach under Keith Clark at Dartmouth. This is an outtake from a full interview that can be heard HERE.
“Former Westie Enters Coaching Side”@TaftFootballCT @Coach_JMcCarthy is a former West Haven/@goChoate #ct 🏈 talent, and now after spending some time with the westies 🏈 James is now the OL/recruiting Coordinator with Taft. @cardens1
— Christopher Saunders (@CS_Pxp) April 1, 2025
📺: https://t.co/YpYdp7wGPc pic.twitter.com/wJMnO3Dyf3
Find McCarthy’s Dartmouth bio HERE.
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Scott Sallach, a member of John Lyons’ Dartmouth coaching staff from 1998-02 and then on staff at Princeton for six years, has been named offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at DIII Marietta College in Ohio. Sallach also coached at Mississippi State, Stetson aand Monmouth among others. He spent last season teaching and coaching at Savannah Country Day in Georgia.
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The NFL is replacing the chain gang with a camera system (LINK), but has tabled a potential ruling on the “tush push” for another month (LINK).
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Former Dartmouth standout and World Series champion Kyle Hendricks is now comfortable pitching for his hometown Los Angeles Angels (STORY) and had a successful first outing with the team yesterday, throwing six strong innings. (LINK)
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And last but not least, this comes courtesy of a loyal reader who shared a link to this story out of Johns Hopkins from, uh, April 1 . . .
In a stunning press conference on Sunday, March 30, Vice President of Student Athlete Relations Chad Rockeley-DuPont announced that Hopkins is set to join the Ivy League conference for the 2026–2027 academic year, replacing Dartmouth College.
And . . .
Spoons did not address Dartmouth’s unexpected exit from the conference after nearly 70 years. The News-Letter reached out to Dartmouth’s athletic program regarding the situation but did not receive a response at the time of publication.
Green Alert Take: Hmmm. Was it more believable that Dartmouth would exit the Ivy League than, say, Harvard or Princeton?
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EXTRA POINT
With the mud road passable, I got my daily workout in yesterday by hiking to the top of our nearby mountain. The weekend snow on our field has melted but as this shot illustrates, there’s still a good 6 inches of the white stuff on the ground. Apparently there’s also one Bigfoot in the area who is either peace-loving or about to eat a bunny rabbit. ;-)
