Charting The Defense

Following yesterday's look at the 2026 Dartmouth offense, today's chart lays out the Big Green defense for the coming season. As was the case with the offense, this is drawn from the 2025 roster and the official list of incoming recruits. Given that the 2026 roster has not yet been posted on the website, there are likely position changes still to be announced and possibly departures from the program yet to be revealed. (Click the chart to enlarge it.)

Special teams will be posted tomorrow.

* As always, the defensive lineman/defensive end distinction can be a gray area. Also, note that nickel is listed with the linebackers.

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Dual-threat quarterback Jack Cannon scored three touchdowns to help his county win the Monmouth-Ocean all-star game in New Jersey in his final game before reporting to camp in Hanover next month. Check out his highlights and postgame comments:

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From a FootballScoop story headlined, Georgia officials set to levy fines for high school kneepad violations, backed by NFHS (LINK):

(F)ootball pants must be worn as designed and in accordance with NFHS rules, and knee pads are required to be worn in their proper position covering the knee. ... Knee pads may not be tucked underneath the pants, rolled up, pulled up above the knee, cut, altered, or modified in any way.

Green Alert Take: Time will tell if Georgia has more success enforcing this rule than the NCAA has enjoyed when it took on the same issue. I'd say, good luck with that.

Green Alert Take II: Somewhere the late, great Dartmouth equipment manager Steve Ward is smiling and rooting hard for Georgia.

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EXTRA POINT
Our '84 VW Westfalia poptop camper went in for inspection yesterday and the news is surprising. Not only did it somehow pass, but the mechanic found and fixed the coolant issue that kept us from driving the bus to the VW bus jamboree last week.

Confidence in the old vehicle will have to build back slowly, because every new noise it makes is a concern, but it's great to have it back on the road.

Given that they were always underpowered and are prone to breaking down, some VW Vanagon owners eventually give up and replace their engines with transplants from passenger cars that someone discovered years ago not only fit neatly into the engine compartment at the back of the bus, but provide both dependability and a lot more power.

Here's a decal that we saw in the back window of one of the converted VWs that should tip you off as where the engines in these conversions come from:

Which reminds me. We've had several Subarus over the years and the saying before they went a little upscale used to be, "They run like (crap) . . . forever."