Thursday, May 21, 2026

This And That

Former Dartmouth defensive lineman Niko Lalos '20 has been cut by the New England Patriots two months after signing with the team as a long snapper. (LINK)

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This is kind of fun. A service called Retro Family Films that digitizes 8mm and Super 8 film has posted video from Hanover that in addition to local and Dartmouth scenes includes three-plus minutes of football from Memorial Field at some point in the early '60s:


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As noted here a few days ago, Dartmouth will play on real grass for the first time in years when it visits Lehigh on Sept, 19. That will be just the second time the Big Green will have played at Goodman Stadium. The first was in 1991 when Lehigh escaped with a 30-28 win.

Curious about the venue? Here's a recent video look at the stadium, which seats 16,000. The previous Dartmouth-Lehigh game in Bethlehem drew 12,022.

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The FCS football season begins with 21 games on Thursday, Aug. 27, which happens to be 99 days from today. 

With the spring sports season over, Dartmouth has begun its push to sell season tickets for its 2026 home football season, which begins when Monmouth comes to Buddy Teevens Stadium on Sept. 26, which is 129 days from today. BGA Overtime will be there and the Dartmouth athletic department is hoping you will be as well:

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EXTRA POINT
With the temperature nearing 90 the last couple of days I spent a lot of time going up and down the stairs to our basement pulling out screens. A lot of them. I tallied them up and our house has 33 windows of various sizes, with an additional 11 in the sun room. When I finally finished I had believe I had put screens in 40 windows and one door.

While I was wrestling screens that weigh nothing through second-floor windows trying to get them into the channels that would hold them in place I found myself shaking my head again at the memory of my father hanging seriously heavy wooden storm windows on the second floor of our house when I was a kid. He'd have to somehow carry them up a shaky wooden ladder and then jimmy them back and forth until they caught on hooks above the window frame. My parents eventually put up combination storm-screen windows, but until they did, these are the kind of monsters my father had to do battle with:

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