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The Dartmouth
August 24, 2026
The Dartmouth
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11.23.09.sports.diving
Sports

Men's swimming and diving team falls to Brown, Navy

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Douglas gonzalez / The Dartmouth Staff In their home openers this weekend, the men's swimming and diving team defeated Colgate University and posted losses to Brown and Navy, while the women's team fell to both Brown and Colgate. "We had a tough meet yesterday with Brown and Navy," men's and women's teams head coach Jim Wilson said.



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Briefly Noted

The 2009 Dartmouth football team awards were given out on Sunday at the team's season-end banquet, DartmouthSports.com reported.



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ROLLIN' WITH DOLAN: What I'm Thankful For

Thanksgiving is the best holiday of the year. The food is great it's perfectly acceptable to eat like an American, and you get to have that post-Thanksgiving dinner nap.



11.19.09.sports.swimming
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Swimming and diving teams fall to Cornell and Harvard

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Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff In this weekend's season opener, both the men's and women's swimming and diving teams fell to Cornell and Harvard, despite posting a few strong individual performances. "It was a tough meet, but it was a good meet," co-captain Carolyn Rippe '10 said.



11.18.09.sports.rugby
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Men's rugby loses season-ending shocker to Syracuse, 6-5

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JARED BOOKMAN / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth men's rugby team's season was cut short this weekend, as the team was upset in a 6-5 loss to Syracuse University at the Northeast Semifinals in West Point, N.Y. "It's pretty clear, we just didn't play well," captain Matt Dinger '10 said.


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Cross-country teams fail to qualify for national championship

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In their last races of the season, the Dartmouth men's cross country team finished fifth while the women's team placed 12th at the NCAA regionals this weekend at Franklin Park in Boston, Mass. Despite its high finish, the men's team had a heartbreaking race to close out the season. Competing in the Northeast Region of the NCAA Division-I cross-country regional, the men's team was vying for a spot at the NCAA national championship, both as a team and individually.



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Volleyball ends season with losses to Princeton and Penn

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The Dartmouth women's volleyball team closed out its season on the road this weekend in disappointing fashion, losing to Princeton in a hard-fought five-set tiebreak on Friday before falling in four sets to league champion University of Pennsylvania on Saturday. With the two losses, Dartmouth (11-13, 7-7 Ivy) dropped to fifth place in the Ivy standings. "We definitely had our ups and downs this season, but we are a much stronger team now," co-captain Megan MacGregor '10 said.


11.16.09.sports.football
Sports

Football falls to Brown in overtime

ZACH INGBRETSEn / The Dartmouth Staff The Big Green offense could not deliver in the final moments of Saturday's game, as the Dartmouth football team fell to Brown, 14-7, in overtime in Providence, R.I. On fourth-and-one in overtime and needing a touchdown to tie the Bears (6-3, 4-2 Ivy), quarterback Greg Patton '13 was tackled by senior defensive end James Develin for a loss of two yards to end the game. "We were trying to run this play that had been working well all day, but [Brown] put the pressure right where we were trying to run," Michael Reilly '12 said.



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Big Green falls prey to Eagles in 31-point loss

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The Dartmouth men's basketball team opened regular-season play on Friday, falling 89-58 to Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass. The game marked the first time since 2005 that the Big Green (0-1, 0-0 Ivy) suited up without 2009 Ivy League Player of the Year Alex Barnett '09, who graduated in the spring. Jabari Trotter '12 led all Dartmouth scorers in the game with 10 points.



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The Power Rankings

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This school's mascot situation is ridiculous. Honestly, what happened? During my first two years here, there was a whole mess of competition and controversy over what our mascot should be.


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ONE-ON-ONE: Smith and Smith

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I sat down with Brittney Smith '11 and Margaret Smith '10 to discuss the success of the Dartmouth women's basketball team over the past few years and the players' outlook for the season. You two were both very highly recruited players coming out of high school.


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Dartmouth's Winter Olympians

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Following the success of Dartmouth athletes at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, a new generation of players are now looking to punch their tickets to the 2010 Games in Vancouver.


11.16.09.sports.wBasketball
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Women's basketball wins season opener against Bryant

NICHOLAS ROOT / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth women's basketball team squashed a determined second-half performance from Bryant University to open its season with a 57-47 win on Saturday at Leede Arena. Cassie Cooper '11 led the way for the Big Green (1-0, 0-0 Ivy) with 14 points and seven rebounds.