Josh Drake, Dartmouth Superfan
The Big Green’s most vocal sports enthusiast sits down with The D to talk Dartmouth and dedication
The Big Green’s most vocal sports enthusiast sits down with The D to talk Dartmouth and dedication
Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff This past weekend proved to be a surreal one for lovers of sport in Boston.
Philip Woram / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth sailing team has found mixed results over the past few weeks of action.
Bonfire or Football game?
Bonfire or Football game?
The Dartmouth men's soccer team nabbed a victory over Columbia Saturday evening, beating out the Lions 2-1.
Grey Cusack The Dartmouth field hockey (4-9, 1-4 Ivy) team wanted to make a statement in Saturday's Homecoming match-up against Columbia (8-5, 3-5 Ivy). With only two weeks and four games left in a roller coaster season, the Big Green needed to ignite some kind of spark so it could conclude the season on a strong note.
Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff On a cool and soggy day at Burnham Field, the Dartmouth women's soccer team fought to a hard-earned draw in double overtime against the defending Ivy League champion Columbia Lions, 1-1.
Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth football took its homecoming fans on a wild, emotional roller coaster in the fourth quarter Saturday, but pulled out a 37-28 victory over Columbia. The Big Green (2-4, 2-1 Ivy) were in a familiar position after the Lions (1-5, 0-3 Ivy) drove 96 yards in six plays to tie the game at 28-28 with 9:54 remaining in the fourth quarter.
The Dartmouth women's volleyball team (12-6, 5-3 Ivy) had two more pitfalls this weekend as the team faced its toughest Ivy League competition to date and lost close games on Friday to Penn (12-7, 5-2 Ivy) and Saturday to Princeton (15-3, 7-0 Ivy). Coming into the weekend, the Big Green knew that it would not have a Homecoming cakewalk, as the team was facing the first and third teams in the Ivy League standings.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Staff Big Green football traveled down to Worcester on Saturday with the hopes of gaining some momentum to propel the team into its remaining five Ivy League (and season) games.
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Staff For many Dartmouth teams, the games played this weekend will be the most important of their seasons, both because it is Homecoming and because for a number of teams, wins this weekend will push them well on the way to Ivy League success. Big Green football (1-4, 1-1 Ivy) hopes to improve on its form of late and turn its season around against Columbia after tough road losses to Yale and Holy Cross.
I'm an absolute sports junkie. If I weren't, I wouldn't be writing this column. I also happen to be the son of a Dartmouth-educated father, whose first stuffed animal was a teddy bear with a Dartmouth green sweater with a large white D on it (originally enough, I named him "D-Bear.") Unlike most people out there, I was brought up looking for Dartmouth football/basketball scores on the ESPN crawl at the bottom of the television.
Courtesy of jarrodshoemaker.com While the 2004 Olympics were going on in Athens, Greece, Jarrod Shoemaker '04 had just graduated from Dartmouth and was just getting his feet wet in the world of triathlons.
The men's golf team continued its strong fall season last weekend at the ECAC Men's Division I Championships, finishing sixth out of the 14-team field. The team posted the low score of the second day, but was done in by an uncharacteristically poor first round. Davis Mullany '11 was only two strokes behind the leader after the opening round of the tournament and had a real shot at winning his second individual trophy of the fall before a tough finish on the second day. Mullany was, for the fourth time this fall, Dartmouth's top individual finisher, placing 10th overall with an impressive first round of 70 on a par 71 course, and finishing with a total score of 148. Not far behind Mullany were teammates Jamie Wallace '08, Dave Putney '10 and Rob Henley '09 who shot 153, 154 and 155 respectively. Wallace finished tied for 23rd, Putney finished tied for 28th and Henley finished tied for 36th. While the finishes from the trio were certainly respectable, the total scores are somewhat misleading.
Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth field hockey team finally pulled itself out of a month-long slump, topping UNH to end a six-game losing streak.
Nat Smith / The Dartmouth Staff In front of a small but vocal crowd on Sunday, the Dartmouth baseball team closed out its fall preseason with a 16-inning scrimmage against a strong University of Massachusetts at Amherst team.
Ryan Yuk / The Dartmouth Staff Even in the dark den of misery that can be Big Green fall athletics, a glimmer of hope will inevitably shine through from time to time.
BCS versus Playoff System
As fans of college football, we've come to expect each season to be flavored with the usual potpourri of upsets and strange outcomes.