Athletes of the Week
Daniel Keat '10 Soccer Keat accounted for all of the Big Green's offense during regulation.
Daniel Keat '10 Soccer Keat accounted for all of the Big Green's offense during regulation.
On Friday, Nov. 16, the official dedication for the Floren Varsity House took place in a packed Alumni Gym.
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Staff After a one-year absence, the Dartmouth men's soccer team will be returning to the NCAA tournament.
Kasia Vincunas / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth rugby football club concluded its successful fall campaign with a second-place finish in the Northeast Final Four, clinching one of the two spots from the Northeast for the national tournament to be held in April.
Squad drops heartbreaker in overtime, 17-14, after 14-point comeback; finishes season with 3-4 Ivy record.
Who is more of a tragic figure: Bonds or Griffey?
Who is more of a tragic figure: Bonds or Griffey?
Danny Gobaud / The Dartmouth Staff The young Dartmouth women's basketball team experienced some growing pains in their non-conference slate this past week, falling to perennial America East power the University of Maine 53-67 and dropping its home opener to a Sweet Sixteen team from last year's tournament, Marist, 35-71. The 35 points that the Big Green scored against the Red Foxes from Marist were the fewest tally for Dartmouth since 1977, when they lost 28-58 to Yale.
Big Green loses to JMU by 15, is now 1-2 on the year
Craig Henderson '09 Soccer Henderson notched Dartmouth's lone goal in a 1-0 victory over Princeton in the season finale.
Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff The Big Green experienced its first winless weekend of the year, tying against Colgate 3-3 on Friday night and falling 4-1 at the hands of Cornell on Saturday. Dartmouth (3-3-1, 2-3-1 ECACHL) now stands in fifth place in the ECAC Hockey standings, seven points behind league-leading Clarkson. On Friday, Colgate (4-6-2, 1-3-2 ECACHL) was able to draw first blood against the Big Green despite being outshot in the first period 16-7.
Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff Last Saturday in their game against Brown, Big Green football took a devastating hit in its drive to take third place in the Ivy League, falling to the Bears 56-35.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth women's and men's swimming and diving -- the nation's top academic program according to a ranking of grade point averages collected by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America in August -- looks to perform as well in the water as in the classroom this season and to build on strides made last year towards becoming a winning program. The Dartmouth women's team (1-9, 0-7 Ivy) is coming off a season in which it set 10 school records.
Big Green men's and women's cross country capped off frustrating seasons on Saturday with stellar performances in the NCAA Northeast Regional Meet. On the heels of a major letdown for both squads at the Ivy League Championship Heps race in late October, every single runner stepped up to finish the year with a bang.
Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff Last Saturday, the Dartmouth women's soccer team (5-9-2, 3-3-1 Ivy) concluded a season of more downs than ups with a solid victory over the Brown University Bears 1-0. "Overall it was a pretty good game and we came out with the win," co-captain Annie Stanley '08 said.
In its final two matches of the season and the last for graduating seniors Katie Hirsch '08, Sandy Barbut '08 and Frances Samolowicz '08, the Dartmouth women's volleyball team swept through league rivals Cornell and Columbia at home on Friday and Saturday.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth women's basketball team (0-1) gave Big Ten power Iowa (1-0) all it could handle until the Big Green ran out of steam in the season opener for both teams.
Big Green soccer has long been one of the most exciting sports to watch each fall. But the question for far too long among spectators has been, "Where the heck do I sit?" Up until this season, the home of Dartmouth men's and women's soccer was the un-glorious Chase Field, a low-tech, oft-overgrown playing surface that seemed little more than a natural clearing in the New Hampshire woods.