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A Look at the Early Decision Class

Dec. 14, 2009

By Bruce Wood
biggreenalert.com

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
biggreenalert.com

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
biggreenalert.com

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
biggreenalert.com

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
biggreenalert.com

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
biggreenalert.com

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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Big Green Alert
July 28, 2009

HANOVER – The subscription cycle for the 2009 Big Green Alert newsletter has not only started but now finished.

This year there were three levels:

As always there has been a minimum of one newspaper-length story published every day from the start of the cycle on Aug. 11 through the end of the season. During the season there have been 10 or so full-length stories each week.

To pay for a 2009 subscripition by check (and learn where to send it), click the image below. (Checks are preferable because I am charged a fee with every online transaction, but it's your call.)




New and returning subscribers will also be able to pay for a full year's subscription to Big Green Alert via the convenience of PayPal (use pulldown menu below).

Available Plans

Regular Season Pass $65.00 Season Pass, with email notice when each update is posted $75.00 Family Season Pass, with email notice when each update is posted $100.00

IMPORTANT REMINDER: Whether paying by check or PayPal, if you subscribed last year you do not need to fill out a new Green Alert form (the one asking you for a username and password). It makes things more confusing.

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