Football looks to bounce back from disappointing Ivy loss
“We’re on to Cincinnati.”
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“We’re on to Cincinnati.”
It was billed as Dartmouth’s biggest game since the two met as undefeated teams in 1997. The game unfolded differently from the 24-0 contest 17 years prior, but ended in the same result: a Crimson victory.
On Nov. 1, 1997, Dartmouth’s starting quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 was 3 years old. Days earlier, the five-year-old Florida Marlins defeated the Cleveland Indians 3-2 in an 11-inning classic to win the World Series in seven games.
After emerging victorious from its own homecoming game last weekend, the Dartmouth football team took home another homecoming win on Saturday, spoiling the weekend for Columbia University. The Big Green (5-1, 3-0 Ivy) surrendered only one touchdown to the Lions (0-6, 0-3 Ivy) and finished with a 27-7 win that was rarely in doubt.
At the halfway point of the 2014 campaign, the Dartmouth football team sits in a position it has not experienced in over a decade. Entering this weekend’s matchup at Columbia University, the Big Green boasts a 4-1 record and a perfect 2-0 record in Ivy League play, potentially on track to win its first Ivy League crown since 1996.But the task will be far from easy, with five Ivy games scheduled to test the team over the final stretch of the season. The last time the Big Green was in this position, in 2001, it lost its third Ivy game of the season 27-20 — to Columbia.The Big Green opens the second half this weekend visiting the Lions (0-5, 0-2 Ivy) in the Big Apple for Columbia’s homecoming game. The Lions have struggled in recent years, winless since November 2012.Last weekend, the team fell 31-7 at the University of Pennsylvania after being outscored 17-0 in the second half.The Big Green on the other hand, comes off a 24-21 victory over the College of the Holy Cross. Despite jumping out to 24-6 lead, the Big Green allowed the Crusaders to fight back and turn a seeming blowout into a nailbiter that came down to the final drive.“I think we’re playing well, but I think we could play a lot better,” running back Kyle Bramble ’16 said.For the second season in a row, the defense was forced on the field to stop Holy Cross from mounting a game-winning drive. But unlike last year, the Big Green forced a turnover on downs with less than a minute to go on a sack and three incompletions.“I think it shows that we’re tougher than we were last year,” nickelback Frankie Hernandez ’16 said. “We’ve come up in some big situations like the one we had last week and we’re going to look to keep doing that the rest of the season.”The team practices situations like that one at the end of practice on Wednesday and Thursday, defensive coordinator Don Dobes said, to give players confidence in their assignments under pressure.“Any time you’re in those win or lose situations, it’s always a great learning lesson for the team and the coaching staff so that the next time you’re in them, hopefully you’ve made some of the corrections that you didn’t have either the previous year or the previous week,” he said.Hernandez agreed, noting that the defense could relax having been in the situation before, which helped the unit come up with the stop.“That’s something that we all remembered,” he said. “We played kind of stress free, and we were loose, and we did what we had to do, and it ended up working out for us.”Bramble led the offense with 113 yards rushing — his second 100-yard performance of the season — and Hernandez earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week accolades after his performance with eight tackles and an interception on the afternoon.The Big Green only took a 10-6 lead into the break but emerged from the third up 24-6.“The second half we really started pushing them off the ball and spreading the game out a little bit on the outside,” Bramble said.Dartmouth has won five in a row against the Lions in what has been a lopsided series. The Big Green hold a 66-17-1 advantage since the two teams first met in 1899 .“I think we’re confident but not over-confident,” Hernandez said. “We know we’ve done some good things, but we know there’s still a long road ahead of us, so we’re definitely focused. We have some tough games coming up but we’re really excited about that.”Beyond Columbia, the Big Green is set to face undefeated Harvard University the following week in Hanover in what could be a matchup that decides the Ivy League title. The Crimson will play fellow league leader Princeton University this weekend in New Jersey. Despite such an important game on the horizon, the team remains focused on winning this week, Dobes said.“When you only get 10, there is no such thing as a trap game,” he said. “I think we’re too mature to take anything for granted.”The game kicks off at 1:30 p.m. at Robert K. Kraft field in New York.
Last season when Dartmouth met the College of the Holy Cross on the gridiron in Hanover, the Crusaders drove 67 yards in the waning minutes of the game to kick a game-winning field goal. This year, with another opportunity for a demoralizing game-ending drive, a mature Dartmouth (4-1, 2-0 Ivy) defense halted Holy Cross (2-6) in its tracks.
Coming off a dramatic 38-31 victory over Yale University at the Yale Bowl, the Big Green returns to Hanover to take on the College of the Holy Cross in its homecoming matchup.
In what will go down as one of Dartmouth’s most satisfying wins in the 100-year history of the Yale Bowl, the Big Green (3-1, 2-0 Ivy) defeated Yale University 38-31 in a back-and-forth thriller in New Haven.
Fresh off a long-anticipated victory over the University of Pennsylvania, the Dartmouth football team looks to carry its momentum to one of the most historic venues in the country.
With the rain coming down in Hanover, the Big Green football team crushed the University of Pennsylvania 31-13 to win its first Ivy League opener since 2007 on Saturday.
In 2012, Dartmouth lost a heartbreaker to the University of Pennsylvania by a touchdown. In 2013, after a missed game-winning field goal by the Big Green, the Quakers eventually prevailed in quadruple overtime.
In the first meeting of the only two Division I football programs in New Hampshire since 2009, the Big Green fell short, losing to No. 7 University of New Hampshire 52-19 Saturday night in Durham.
The only two Division I schools in New Hampshire will face off this weekend on the gridiron for the first time since 2009, as the Big Green travels to Durham to take on No. 7 University of New Hampshire.UNH (2-1, 1-0 CAA) comes into the game ranked seventh in the national FCS Coaches’ Pool and is looking to improve on last season’s national semifinal appearance. After losing its first game to FBS University of Toledo, UNH rolled off a pair of wins over Lehigh University and the University of Richmond.Dartmouth (1-0, 0-0 Ivy), on the other hand, is playing only its second game of the season. Last weekend, the Big Green defeated Central Connecticut State University under the lights in Hanover, 35-25.The last time the two teams met, Dartmouth was in the midst of a 17-game losing streak and at one of its lowest points of the decade. The then No. 6 Wildcats rolled to a 44-14 victory. This year, however, the Big Green is regarded as a contender for the Ivy League title, which should lead to a much more competitive game.“It’s definitely a challenge that we’re looking forward to,” wide receiver Ryan McManus ’15 said. “We want to see how we stack up against one of the best teams in the nation.”One of the most important battles of the game figures to be in the trenches on the offensive and defensive lines, an area head coach Buddy Teevens identified for improvement in a press conference following the team’s first game.For Dartmouth, it will be crucial to keep quarterback Dalyn Williams ’16 on his feet. After a shaky first half last week where the team struggled to protect the quarterback and let receivers get open, Williams and the offense began to click on the last drive of the first half and continued rolling in the second, reeling off four consecutive scores to put the game out of reach.“I think we just have to be consistent and protect up front,” McManus said. “I think last game we had some times when the line was blocking well, and the receivers weren’t getting open. This week we just need to string it all together.”Williams was awarded Ivy League co-offensive player of the week for his nearly 300 all-purpose yards and four touchdowns (three passing, one rushing) last week.McManus was another key contributor to last week’s offense, tallying a career-high 117 receiving yards in addition to a highlight-reel touchdown in the third quarter.The Dartmouth defense will have its hands full with the Wildcats’ powerful offense that boasts the nation’s fourth-highest passing offense, averaging 336 yards per game. While the offense will be hindered by an injury to junior starting quarterback Sean Goldrich last week, the replacement, senior Andy Vailas has had considerable game experience over his collegiate career including starting six games for the Wildcats last season.Defensive back Troy Donahue ’15 said he hoped that the team could take last week’s momentum and use it against the strong UNH team.The Wildcats’ defense has allowed an average of 26.5 points per game against FCS opponents.The Big Green will play under the lights for the second consecutive week, but this time Dartmouth has a nearly two-hour bus ride across the state before kickoff. Despite having a longer day of travel, assistant coach Cortez Hankton suggested that the veteran team may actually benefit from spending time together on the road.The teams have met 37 times since their first encounter in 1901 with Dartmouth winning the first 16, outscoring its cross-state rivals by an astounding margin of 432-42. However, in recent years, the momentum has switched in the opposite direction with UNH, who has been ranked in the FCS top-25 every week since September 2004, winning the last 12 matchups. The last time the Big Green defeated the Wildcats was in 1976, when Teevens was the third-string signal caller for Dartmouth.The game will also serve as the Big Green’s final tune-up before Ivy League play begins next week. Then, Dartmouth will host the University of Pennsylvania Quakers.
Reaching over his right shoulder, arms fully outstretched, Dartmouth’s top receiver hauled in a perfect pass from Dalyn Williams ’16 last Saturday in the Big Green’s season opener against Central Connecticut State University. Up in the air and with a defender clinging to his back, the man in the green number two jersey managed to touch his foot down just inside the sideline for what would be the game-winning touchdown. After months of frustration and waiting, Ryan McManus ’15 was back.
Saturday under the lights, for the first time since a snowy November night, the gridiron came alive in Hanover.
With the sun setting over the West Stands of Memorial Field on Tuesday, the Dartmouth football team finished one of its final practices before the team’s season opener this weekend. After months of sweat and preparation, the team anticipated returning to the gridiron and is seeking to extend its four-year winning streak in season openers.
As students returned to campus on a crisp 55-degree sunny, fall Sunday, the women’s soccer team tallied its first victory of the season, defeating St. John’s University 2-0 in a full-game effort.
Athletes from the Class of 2018 are not the only new faces in the Big Green sports scene this year. Six of Dartmouth’s 34 varsity teams have new head coaches, including fall sports women’s cross country, women’s soccer and women’s and men’s heavyweight crew.
The equestrian team concluded its most successful season by taking 10th place out of 16 schools at the IHSA Nationals competition last week in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This season, the Big Green won both its regional and Zone competitions to qualify for the national horse show for the first time in program history.
Thanks to a grand slam and 14 runs in two games, the baseball team swept Harvard University on Tuesday to keep hopes alive for its seventh consecutive Red Rolfe Division title.The Big Green beat the Crimson on its senior day 9-0 in the first seven-inning game before finishing with a 5-3 victory in the nine-inning game later that afternoon.Playing from behind this season, first baseman and co-captain Dustin Selzer ’14 said, builds a “never give up, never quit” mentality.Since the team’s current seven-game streak began April 20, every game, co-captain Jeff Keller ’14 said, has been a “do or die” situation for Dartmouth, which backed itself into a corner by opening Ivy play with a 4-6 record, forcing a perfect finish if the team hoped to return to the Ivy Championship Series.“This is one of the scrappiest teams I have ever been a part of,” Keller said. “We’ve basically been eliminated a couple of times this season when we thought we weren’t going to have a chance, and every time we’ve just scraped by. This is a team that is used to being with its back against the wall, and we’re continuing to get better, and I like the way we’re playing right now.”In the first game on Tuesday, the starting pitchers, freshman Nick Gruener and Mike Concato ’17, battled on the mound and held the opposing lineups scoreless for five innings.The Big Green broke through in the sixth, tallying nine runs on four hits and cycling through the lineup in the frame.Gruener allowed Matt Parisi ’15, Keller and Nick Ruppert ’16 to load the bases on a walk, single and hit by pitch. A single by Thomas Roulis ’15 brought in both Parisi and Keller, leaving two men on until Selzer reached on a fielder’s choice, bringing in Ruppert.Still with no outs, Roulis on second and Selzer on first, a single by Joe Purritano ’16 loaded the bases again. Nick Lombardi ’15 forced in a run on a four-pitch walk. A fielder’s choice for Patterson scored Selzer but left Purritano out at third. Parisi was hit by a pitch in his second at bat of the inning, reloading the bases. Harvard pulled Gruener in favor of a relief pitcher as Keller walked into the box.Keller crushed a grand slam out of the park on a full count, bringing in the final four runs of the inning to give Dartmouth a 9-0 advantage.“I had fouled a couple off beforehand, and I’d gotten out in front of them and they were up a little bit, so I was hoping to get a fastball down in the zone that I could get on top of, and that’s exactly what I got,” Keller said.Mike Concato, true to his dependability this season, went the distance, throwing just 82 pitches and striking out three over seven innings.“You could tell from the first inning that Mike Concato had his good stuff, and when Mike has his good stuff, he’s tough to hit,” Selzer said. “We knew that at some point we were going to break through and hopefully get a couple of runs for him because he was kind of dominating their hitters.”Dartmouth jumped out to an early lead in game two when Purritano tallied the first run of the game in the second after being walked to start the inning. Harvard knotted the score in the bottom of the third, forcing head coach Bob Whalen to swap pitcher Chris England ’14 in favor of Duncan Robinson ’16 in the fourth. Despite the fresh arm, the Crimson took a 2-1 lead before the Big Green could close out the inning.The short-lived Crimson lead came to a screeching halt in the next half-inning when Parisi, singling to get on base with one out, again started a critical set of at-bats for Dartmouth. With runners on the corners and two outs, back-to-back singles by Roulis and Selzer scored both Parisi and Ruppert before a double from Purritano plated Roulis and Selzer to cap the four-run inning. Dartmouth retook the lead 5-2.Robinson continued his strong performance, stifling the Crimson hitters and only running into trouble in the bottom of the eighth when an unearned run cut Dartmouth’s lead to two. After allowing the run, Robinson struck out junior shortstop Jake McGuiggan on three pitches to strand a Harvard runner at third and end the threat.“Duncan’s been phenomenal all year,” Keller said. “He’s pitched in every situation imaginable. We knew that with one game to win, he was going to be in the game at some point and it was probably going to be early and that’s what happened and he did a great job.”Robinson pitched the final six innings, surrendering only four hits while striking out five.After a midweek nonconference game against Siena College on Wednesday, the Big Green play a one-game playoff in Hanover this weekend against Yale University to determine the Red Rolfe Division champion. Dartmouth went 3-1 against the Bulldogs when they visited Hanover earlier in April.