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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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