Dartmouth women's soccer midfielder Chrissy Lozier '14 received her second Ivy League Rookie of the Week award in three weeks following the Big Green's season-ending 1-0 win against Cornell University. Crossing the ball to Aly O'Dea '12 in the 67th minute, Lozier helped deliver the only goal Dartmouth needed to beat Cornell and secure second place in the Ivy League. Lozier recorded a point in each of the last three games of the season. She ended her first Dartmouth season with three goals and three assists. She is also the only Ivy League freshman to win the Rookie of the Week award more than once.
Big Green field hockey had four players receive All-Ivy awards this week, according to DartmouthSports. Kelly Hood '12 and co-captain Virginia Peisch '11 chosen for the All-Ivy first team, while co-captain Claire Byrne '11 made the All-Ivy second team and Kelly McHenry '11 received honorable mention. It was the third time in Hood's career that she has received All-Ivy honors, making the first team last year and receiving honorable mention in 2008. Hood recorded 18 goals and three assists for the season and was selected unanimously for the first team. Hood is ranked third in Division I with 1.38 goals per game and will have the chance to become Dartmouth's all time leading goal scorer next season, needing just four goals to move into first place. Peisch tied for the League lead with seven assists in Ivy League play and 21 total assists. She became the all-time Dartmouth assists leader when she recorded two assists on Sept. 5 in Dartmouth's upset victory over Missouri State University. Peisch has been named to the All-Ivy team three consecutive years, a feat only 35 others have ever accomplished.
Nov. 16 will mark the 70th anniversary of the historic "Fifth Down" game between the Big Green and Cornell University. In 1940, the Cornell Big Red came to Hanover to face the then Dartmouth Indians. The Big Red went into the game undefeated and winners of their past 18 games over a two year span. When they left Hanover after the game, they thought they had come away with a 7-3 victory. However, Cornell discovered while reviewing game films that their fourth quarter game-winning touchdown pass was scored on the fifth down, not the fourth. In what remains the only occasion in history that a football game has been decided off the field, Cornell honorably sent Dartmouth a telegram informing them of the error and offered to forfeit. Dartmouth accepted, and Cornell's undefeated streak was snapped.
