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Meeting Needs With Class Of 2013
May 5, 2009
By Bruce Wood
biggreenalert.com
HANOVER – Dartmouth’s Class of 2013 is two players smaller than coach
Buddy Teevens thought it would be, but that doesn’t tarnish what he
believes is a very solid group and another step forward in athleticism.
“It's a pretty good-looking class,” Teevens said Tuesday in his first
public comments on the incoming freshmen. “We feel like we hit just
about all of the needs we had. The nice thing is we've exceeded the
academic requirements of the institution and the league. That gives us
a lot of flexibility in the future.”
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here to read the story and find a full list of the incoming freshmen
Green-White Answers 'That' Question
May 2, 2009
By Bruce Wood
biggreenalert.com
HANOVER – After Saturday’s Green-White scrimmage
Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens talked about the defense, offered
thoughts on the offensive line, discussed the running game and trotted
out two of his favorite words this spring: consistency and intensity.
But that one question football fans will always ask hung in the air
pretty deep into his postgame remarks: Will there be a No. 1
quarterback when summer camp begins in late August?
The answer is yes.
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here to read the story
Green White Stats
SCORING
6-0 Rob Mitchelson 13 run (kick failed)
7-6 Garrett Babb 8 pass from Alex Jenny (Foley Schmidt kick)
14-6 Nick Schwieger 1 run (Schmidt kick)
21-6 Niles Murphy 13 pass from Jenny (Schmidt kick)
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Jenny Paces Green-White Effort
(Full
game story with quotes to come tonight)
By Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
HANOVER – Junior quarterback Alex Jenny completed 13-of-21 passes for
131 yards and two touchdowns Saturday to help his team to a 21-6
victory in Dartmouth’s Green-White scrimmage on Memorial Field.
Jenny’s TD throws were eight yards to freshman Garrett Babb and 13
yards to junior Niles Murphy, who somersaulted over a defender for the
score. Junior Rob Mitchelson won a 13-yard footrace to the left pylon
and freshman Nick Schwieger plowed over from the 1 for the day's other
two touchdowns.
Freshman tight end John Gallagher topped the receivers with six catches
for 85 yards. Freshman Michael Reilly caught three passes for 21 yards
while Murphy also had three receptions.
Mitchelson led the ground game with 67 yards and one TD on 13 carries.
Sophomore TJ Cameron carried nine times for 43 yards while Schwieger
had 14 carries for 34 yards and one TD.
Sophomore defensive end Matt Oh and sophomore defensive tackle Lane
Shipley shared game honors with seven tackles. Oh also had a sack and a
tackle for loss. Freshman linebacker Royce Egeolu, freshman linebacker,
Aaron Limonthas and junior linebacker Marlon Alebiosu each had six
stops. Sophomore defensive end Charles Bay had five tackles, two sacks
and a number of quarterback hurries while senior corner Chris Burns had
also had five tackles.
Sophomore defensive back David Johnson picked off a pass and freshman
defensive tackle Eddie Smith recovered a fumble.
Freshman kicker Foley Schmidt converted all three of his extra points
for Dartmouth, which opens its season against Colgate on Memorial Field
next Sept. 19.
Teevens Tells It Like It Is
May 1, 2009
By Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
HANOVER – He’ll always be a cup-is-half-full guy at heart, but
Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens is trying hard to be a realist these days.
So it was revealing what he had to say about where the Big Green is on
the next-to-last day of spring practice.
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Clark Sizes Up O-Line, Philosophy
April 30, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
HANOVER – Keith Clark may be new to Dartmouth, but after spending five
years on the staff at Columbia and the last dozen at Yale he’s hardly
new to the Ivy League.
And so when the Big Green’s first-year offensive line coach talks up
the young group he’s been in charge of bringing along this spring, you
can be pretty sure he’s isn’t just blowing smoke.
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Running Down 1st Spring Scrimmage
April 27, 2009
By Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
HANOVER – Four sets of eyes that saw Friday’s first real scrimmaging of
the spring all emailed the same thing. After struggling to run the
football for the past four years, Dartmouth appeared not only to be
emphasizing the run Friday, but was proving successful at it.
Your turn Buddy Teevens. Is that how you saw it?
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Sammy
McCorkle: Loud And Clear
By Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
April. 20, 2009
HANOVER – There are a lot of words that could be used to describe
Dartmouth assistant Sammy McCorkle’s coaching style.
Loud and clear might be two of the most appropriate.
Whether you were on the field, on the sidelines or high up in the
stands watching practice last year it didn’t matter; You knew exactly
what the Big Green special teams coach wanted and expected his players
to do.
As defensive coordinator this year, his message is every bit as
unambiguous.
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here to read the story
'We're Going Live'
By Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
April 17, 2009
HANOVER – The end of the opening week of spring practice marked the
first day of full pads and the first day of full contact for the
Dartmouth football team.
The hitting, of course, started Thursday when safety Kyle Cavanaugh lit
up receiver Timmy McManus.
“Clean and legitimate, it was fun to see,” said coach Buddy Teevens.
“Timmy was great about it. He popped right back up. You want to give,
you've got to take and they both did. Two competitors.
“I yelled over to Cavanaugh and I think he expected that I was going to
jump him. I said, 'Hey, you're back.' ”
Cavanaugh is back.
And will be back next fall as
the
team’s lone fifth-year senior.
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here to read the story
The Future Of Big Green Alert
By
Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
Nov. 12, 2008
HANOVER – Several Big Green Alert subscribers who read between the
lines of a few things I wrote late in the 2008 Dartmouth football
season correctly interpreted them as meaning I was questioning whether
I would keep Green Alert going for another year.
Given all the work the players and coaches put into the season I feel a
little guilty admitting that last fall beat me down, but it did. Some
of it was the travel. Some of it was the drop in subscriptions and the
hurt that came with finding out (from emails I received commenting on
my stories) that there were more non-subscribers reading Green Alert
than I thought. Most of it was seeing and feeling the disappointment
week after week, asking the same difficult questions about what went
wrong game after game, and trying to explain what happened without
pointing fingers.
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here to read the story
A Look At The Early Decision Class
If
Size Matters, Dartmouth Has It ... Big Time (Pun Intended)
By
Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
Dec. 23, 2008
HANOVER – Admit it. You’ve been wondering just how much damage a
winless season and a four-year record of 7-33 has meant to Dartmouth’s
recruiting, haven’t you?
The answer, according to Big Green coach Buddy Teevens: Not much.
The proof, he feels, is in an early-decision class that is small in
size (eight players) but seriously large in stature. It includes a
6-foot-8, 295-pound offensive lineman, a 6-6 tight end with eyes on
reaching 250 pounds by the time he arrives on campus, a well-matched,
pitch-and-catch set of 6-5 quarterback and receiver, a 6-4 defensive
end and no one under 6-2.
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here to read the story
Optimist And Pessimist: An Encore
Even They Might Not Believe What They Say,
But They Might Just Get You Thinking About Next Season
By
Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
Dec. 2, 2008
HANOVER – Think of The Optimist and The Pessimist the way you think
about that piece of modern art that had you scratching your head the
first time you saw it.
Taken on their own, the sometimes-friendly adversaries are pretty
outlandish and don't necessarily make much sense. But take a step back
to see the whole picture and and you might, that's might, find that the
silliness helps clarify something you couldn't see before.
And so, our two protagonists return for an encore performance that is
hardly a piece of art. Instead of being on the wall, this may come
across as completely off the wall, but discard their opinions at your
peril. There just may be something important in what they have to say.
Or maybe there isn't.
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here to read the story
On Getting The Green Going Forward
Teevens Shares Thoughts On Issues Contributing To
Another Long Season And A Protracted Turnaround
By
Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
Nov. 26, 2008
HANOVER – Before we go on, a (hopefully) instructive history lesson for
Ivy League newbies.
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here to read the story
Expectations Vs. Reality
A
Hard Look At Where We Are And How We Got Here
By
Bruce Wood
www.biggreenalert.com
Nov. 10, 2008
Analysis and opinion about the 2008 Big Green with two games remaining.
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here to read the story
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