Welcome To List Season

Listening to a podcast during my hike late yesterday afternoon I had to laugh when I heard a college football commentator refer to this as "list season."

Without any real news to report he was about to manufacture some by creating a list of top players at the school he covers.

I can relate.

Welcome to the latest BGA "list season" entry, again courtesy of the hard work done by former Dartmouth SID Rick Bender, who built a spreadsheet that includes individual rushing totals for every game since 1980, and most games between 1970-80.

From Rick's hard work, here is every 50-yard run by a Dartmouth player since 1980 in descending order.

Long	Name	Opponent	Date
97	David Clark	Princeton	Nov.  19, 1988
97	David Clark	Harvard	Oct. 15, 1988
82	Rashaad Cooper	Harvard	Oct. 27, 2018
79	Shon Page	Harvard	Oct. 27, 1990
78	Jackson Proctor	Brown	Nov. 18, 2023
75	Nick Howard	Cornell	Nov. 13, 2021
75	Jackson Proctor	Brown	Nov. 23, 2024
70	Kyle Bramble	Brown	Nov. 16, 2013
69	Jake Pallotta	Columbia	Oct. 25, 2019
68	Q Jones	Sacred Heart	Sept. 24, 2022
67	DJ Crowther	Cornell	Nov. 15, 2025
66	Nick Schwieger	Columbia	Oct. 24, 2009
66	Caylin Parker	Yale	Oct. 5, 2018
65	Nick Schwieger	Cornell	Nov. 5, 2011
65	Keegan McHugh	Brown	Nov. 20, 2021
64	Ryder Stone	New Hampshire	Sept. 17, 2016
64	Jackson Proctor	Brown	Nov.  19, 2022
63	Ryder Stone	Brown	Nov. 15, 2014
63	Shon Page	Lehigh	Sept. 22, 1990
62	Ryder Stone	Sacred Heart	Sept. 26, 2015
62	Greg Smithq	Holy Cross	Oct. 12, 1996
62	Drew Estrada	Jacksonville	Sept. 21, 2019
61	Brian Grove	Brown	Nov. 14, 2015
61	Brian Grove	Princeton	Nov. 22, 2014
60	Chad Gaudet	Harvard	Oct. 30, 2004
58	Dominick Pierre	Penn	Oct. 5, 2013
57	Dylan Karczewski	Yale	Oct. 14, 1995
56	Nick Schwieger	Bucknell	Sept. 18, 2010
56	Nate Servis	Columbia	Oct. 20, 2007
54	Kyle Bramble	Yale	Oct. Oct. 2015
53	Jared Gerbino	Princeton	Nov. 18, 2017
53	Nick Howard	Sacred Heart	Sept. 25, 2021
53	Peter Lavery	Columbia	Nov. 6, 1982
52	Greg Patton	Cornell	Nov. 7, 2009
52	Mark Akey	Harvard	Oct. 18, 1980
52	Russ Torres	Brown	Nov. 14, 1992
52	Aaron Pumerantz	Colgate	Sept. 16, 2000
51	Greg Patton	Cornell	Nov. 3, 2012
51	Rashaad Cooper	Georgetown	Sept. 15, 2018
51	Miles Smith	Georgetown	Sept. 15, 2018
51	Pete Oberle	New Hampshire	Oct. 9, 1993
50	Jeremiah White	Yale	Oct. 19, 1996

Rick's original spreadsheet included who won the games in which these runs took place. Interestingly, Dartmouth was 36-6 in these games, and 9-0 in games featuring a run of 69 or more yards.

Tied with three runs each of 50 or more yards? All-time Dartmouth rushing leader Nick Schwieger and quarterback Jackson Proctor. Others with two runs of 50-plus yards each: running backs David Clark, Rashaad Cooper, Shon Page, Ryder Stone, Brian Grove and Kyle Bramble, along with quarterback Nick Howard and wildcat QB Greg Patton.

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EXTRA POINT
I think my favorite movies are from the 1940s and early '50s featuring actors like Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and more. There were a lot fewer car crashes, explosions and super heroes than in today's movies, and a lot more memorable dialogue.

I mention that because Mrs. BGA and I somehow had never seen the 1953 classic Roman Holiday starring Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert until earlier this week, and silly as it was, we both thoroughly enjoyed it.