After nearly leading @GBSW_Football to state finals, an illustrious 6⃣-year college career began for @nchoward17
— Cody Krupp (@CodyWKrupp) April 16, 2025
Setting @DartmouthFTBL touchdown records before finishing at @ButlerUFootball@IvyLeague 🎓in back pocket - "What's giving it 1⃣ more shot to go all the way (NFL)?" pic.twitter.com/dKDXO5xJo5
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Dartmouth football is still looking for sponsorships for its June 21 Golf Classic at Montcalm Golf Club. For more information or to sign up and play, click HERE.
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The Learfield Directors’ Cup purports to identify the nation’ top athletic departments. Here’s how Ivy League teams stack up among the 255 Divison I schools that scored points in the winter season, with all of Dartmouth's points coming from the ski team. How the schools ranked in the fall is in parentheses, with schools that did not accumulate points Not Ranked (NR):
26 - Princeton (10)
27 - Harvard (24)
43 - Cornell (66)
65 - Penn (97)
70 - Yale (95)
86 - Columbia (NR)
105 - Brown (NR)
122 - Dartmouth (NR)
To see the full winter season rankings, click HERE.
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When I was sports editor of a Pennsylvania daily, we were part of a newspaper chain that was one of the first to get into analytics. Among other things, the chain worked up the average number of words in each paper’s “ledes,” as well as each writer’s ledes. If your lede average was too long, you heard about it from, uh, corporate, which preached that the shorter the lede, the better the lede.
That being the case, I asked the writers working for me to occasionally have one-word ledes like:
Surprise!
or . . .
Disappointment
It was a pretty cheesy thing to do, but it gave my staff the freedom to occasionally have longer, more creative ledes.
I thought about that when an FCS Central story came across the web yesterday under the title 2025 Dartmouth Football Schedule. The story consisted of a three-line listing last year’s record, the head coach’s name, and the last Ivy League championship, along with the schedule. That was it.
Here are the only two sentences that appeared in the story:
Dartmouth's 2025 football schedule features three FCS non-conference games and seven Ivy League conference matchups.
And . . .
The full 2025 schedule for Dartmouth is below.
Green Alert Take: I’m not sure if someone is counting the number of bylines writers on the FCS Central site have, but slapping a byline on a posting like this is every bit as cheesy as my old one-word lede ploy. I applaud the effort. ;-)
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EXTRA POINT
The day may come when I take for granted the view out the windows of our Vermont hillside home, but it hasn’t come yet. The sun sneaking through the clouds to light up parts of the southern White Mountains late yesterday afternoon was beautiful. It called to mind an Albert Bierstadt painting.
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