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2010
Schedule
Sept. 18 at Colgate
Sept. 25 Sacred Heart
Oct. 2 at Penn
Oct. 9 Yale
Oct. 16 Holy Cross
Oct. 23 at Columbia
Oct. 30 Harvard
Nov. 6 at Cornell
Nov. 13 Brown
Nov. 20 at Princeton

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A Look at the Early Decision Class
Dec. 14, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
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HANOVER – A reality football TV show star. A Mr. Football in a
powerhouse football state. A pair of twins, a player who was discovered
at a Dartmouth game because he was interested in the visiting team and
another who broke records set by his father and later tied by his
brother.
As is always the case, there are stories galore in Dartmouth’s early
decision class.
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Optimist and Pessimist Look Ahead
Nov. 24, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
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HANOVER – In the spirit of Thanksgiving, The Optimist and The Pessimist will close out their
2009 act by sitting down at the table and outlining their cases for
next season without the usual histrionics. On a flip of the coin The Optimist has the floor first.
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Statistical Odds and Ends
Schwieger,
Abuhoff Rank Highest Among Dartmouth Players
Nov. 22, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
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HANOVER – The final Ivy League statistics are in and as expected
Dartmouth sophomore Nick Schwieger won the conference rushing
championship with 78.25 yards per game.
Schwieger, of course, was about to fall out of the stats for not
appearing in 75 percent of his team’s games until he made a cameo
appearance Saturday against Princeton. He finished with 626 yards in
five full games, less than one half at Harvard and just one play
against the Tigers, which gave him the minimum eight required
appearances. Since the undefeated 1996 team only twice has a Dartmouth
runner had more yards than Schwieger had this fall – Milan Williams
with 657 in 2007 and Michael Gratch with 916 in 2001.
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Tigers Out-Physical Green ... Again
Loss
A Reminder of Hard Work Dartmouth Still Has to Do
Nov. 21, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
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HANOVER – The words stung so bad but hit so close to home that they
were posted in the Dartmouth locker room, a silent reminder of what
happened a year ago.
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Princeton Spoils Senior Day
Tigers
Slow Down Dartmouth Run Game To Take 23-11 Win
Nov. 21, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
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HANOVER – If this were the movies Pete Pidermann would have returned an
interception for the winning touchdown, injured quarterback Alex Jenny
would have come off the bench to get the victory snap everyone so
wanted to give him and the band of brothers in the Class of 2010 who
have been through so much would have finished out their careers with a
dramatic win over Princeton.
But you don’t often get to write your own script and such was the case
on an unseasonably warm November afternoon.
Instead it was Princeton senior Kenny Gunter bulling his way for 173
yards and two touchdowns and an unheralded-but-tenacious Tiger defense
keeping Dartmouth out of the end zone until the issue had been pretty
much settled as the Big Green dropped a 23-11 decision before 4,297 on
Senior Day.
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Big Green Seeks Big Finish
Princeton,
Dartmouth Battle for 4th In Ivy League
Nov. 20, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
biggreenalert.com
HANOVER – It’s easy to see Saturday’s finale against Princeton as the
first game of the 2010 season for Dartmouth’s cohort of young players.
Or you could pitch it as the last game of their careers for the small
band of seniors who have stuck it out over four sometimes difficult
years.
Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens’ take on the season finale is more
immediate.
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Fearful Forecast: Week 10
Nov. 20, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
biggreenalert.com
HANOVER – Enjoy your turkey next week, friends. I'm chowing down on
bird of a different feather this week.
Sure, I got all three of the non-conference games right last week. But
I crashed and burned in my Ivy League picks, going ohfer although I did
hedge my bets a little when I said Cornell over Columbia was the game
You Wouldn't Want to Bet the Farm On.
I feel a lot better about my chances this week. A whole lot better. All
the way around. In fact, I'd predict a perfect week to finish out the
season except that I still have that nasty taste of crow in my mouth.
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Final Full Practice Wraps Up
Hard-Nose
Award Closes Out The Last Session of the Season
Nov. 19, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
biggreenalert.com
HANOVER – For anyone who watched the Dartmouth football team this fall
– for the last few seasons actually – the winner of the Hard Nose Award
given out at the end of the final full practice of the year could not
have come as a surprise.
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Jayvees Keep On Keeping On
Even
With Their Season Over the 3-1 Team Practices Away
Nov. 18, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
biggreenalert.com
HANOVER – They played their last game 10 days ago. Their season as a
regular team is over.
But still, on the chilly final Wednesday practice of the year, while
most of the upperclassmen were doing Buffalo drills at one end of
Scully-Fahey Field, the Dartmouth jayvees were at the other end working
together as a unit.
Um, Coach Teevens, what gives?
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Business As Usual For Big Green
No
Slacking Off, Mentally or Physically, As Final Week Begins
Nov. 17, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
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HANOVER – By the time the final week of practice rolls around it's not
unheard of for a football team – particularly one that hasn't had the
success it hoped for – to see its concentration and focus begin to
lapse.
By Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens' reckoning that wasn't a problem for
the Big Green during Tuesday's practice.
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Optimist-Pessimist After Brown
Nov. 16, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
biggreenalert.com
HANOVER – The Optimist just looked at the forecast for the week and saw
that it is expected to be 47 degrees and partly sunny for Saturday’s
finale against Princeton. The Pessimist isn’t much for what he
calls,"all this global warming hogwash," but he can't help but recall
how Dartmouth closed the season on the road every year until 1991
because it was thought to be just too darn cold to play football in
Hanover at this time of year.
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Ball Control Went the Other Way
But
the Big Green Still Had a Good Chance to Top Brown
Nov. 15, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
biggreenalert.com
HANOVER – A big part of Dartmouth’s gameplan Saturday was to keep the
high-octane Brown offense off the field. Surprisingly, the Big Green
didn’t nearly accomplish that mission and still was a whisker away from
winning.
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Dartmouth is the
New Green
A Young Roster Gives Promise
for the Future
Nov. 14, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
biggreenalert.com
PROVIDENCE,
R.I. – Uniform colors and records aside, the biggest
difference between 2-7 Dartmouth and 6-3 Brown Saturday wasn’t on the
scoreboard. It was on the driver’s licenses in the players wallets.
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Brown Reins In Dartmouth
Green Takes One of Ivy's
Best to OT Before Falling
Nov. 14, 2009
By Bruce
Wood
biggreenalert.com
PROVIDENCE,
R.I. – Eddie Smith and the interior of the Dartmouth line
forced Brown’s young tailback to the outside where the muck and mire on
a gloomy and wet Saturday afternoon frequently took his feet out from
him when he tried to cut.
Shawn Abuhoff and the Big Green secondary were in position to make
plays most of the soggy day and on those occasions when receivers came
open, the wet ball led to numerous overthrows and the occasional
underthrow.
When Peter Pidermann wasn’t up to his old tricks blocking his kick, the
treacherous surface was playing havoc on the Brown placekicker, who
might have spent as much time on his back side as on his feet.
After the Bears got their high-powered offense in gear with a 17-play
drive to tie the score in the third quarter and then marched deep into
Dartmouth territory on the very next possession, a slippery snap sailed
over the “Wildcat” quarterback’s head. When he scooped up the mistake
and somehow turned a sure loss of at least 15 yards into a gain of
seven, it happened yet again on the very next play as another snap
sailed over the true quarterback’s head, this time for a loss of
22
yards.
With rain alternating from a sprinkle to near monsoon conditions it was
the perfect storm Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens wanted for 60 minutes.
But when the clock stopped in overtime it was the lightning and thunder
Brown coach Phil Estes has seen for four years that lifted the Bears to
a 14-7 win.
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