Athletes of the Week
Jess Thomas '09 Volleyball Thomas was an offensive stud in Dartmouth's weekend sweep of Yale and Brown, compiling 35 kills in the two matches.
Jess Thomas '09 Volleyball Thomas was an offensive stud in Dartmouth's weekend sweep of Yale and Brown, compiling 35 kills in the two matches.
Correction appended Baseball legend Babe Ruth once said, "The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth men's soccer team's six-game hot streak came to an end Wednesday evening in a narrow 0-1 defeat at the hands of the University of New Hampshire Wildcats. For the past few weeks the team has enjoyed a string of successes, including tournament wins at Old Dominion in Virginia and the Dartmouth Classic in Hanover.
Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff To quote the column of fellow Dartmouth staff writer Dave Glovsky '08: "1-2 never felt so good." After defeating Penn in a nail-biter last Saturday at Memorial Field, Big Green football is 1-0 in Ivy play for the first time in the Teevens era.
Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth field hockey team badly needed a boost.
Welcome back, faithful followers of Knapptime. To kick off this fall, we will take a closer look into a sport which, admittedly, I once referred to as "whistle ball" due to the number of times the referee stopped play.
Teresa Lattanzio / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth Rugby Football Club, one of the school's most successful club sports programs, has begun its fall campaign with mixed results.
When my editor first asked me to write this year's Major League Baseball postseason preview, I was admittedly hesitant.
Though it was ulcer-inducing, the Big Green pulled out a 21-13 victory over the mighty Quakers of the University of Pennsylvania this past weekend.
Asafu Suzuki / The Dartmouth Staff With tough losses against Providence (0-6), Princeton (1-4) and Boston University (3-8) over the past three weeks, the Big Green needed a strong showing against the University of Pennsylvania this past Saturday in its third Ivy League conference game of the season.
Alicia Modeen / The Dartmouth Staff This weekend Dartmouth's men's and women's golf teams both put in largely successful efforts, as the men claimed fifth in the 16-team field at the Cornell Invitational and the women finished tenth at the Yale Women's Fall Intercollegiate tournament.
Nat Smith / The Dartmouth Staff In its first competition this past weekend, the Dartmouth men's water polo team performed admirably at home competing against some of the best club teams in the northeast, finishing the Dartmouth tournament with two wins and two losses.
Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff Penn marched down the field in the fourth quarter on Saturday, eliciting flashbacks of the Big Green's loss to Colgate, but a controversial call in the endzone sealed a 21-13 Dartmouth victory. A blocked punt deep in Dartmouth's (1-2, 1-0 Ivy) territory set up a quick touchdown strike and, soon after, an onside kick recovery for the Quakers (0-3, 0-1 Ivy) with 2:37 remaining in the game.
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Staff On Saturday, the women's soccer team began its Ivy League schedule with a contest under the lights against the Tigers of Princeton University.
Philip Woram / The Dartmouth Staff Only a few miles down the road from the College at Lake Mascoma, the Dartmouth sailing team is in the midst of cultivating a new team.
Sports Heroes
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Staff In a thriller at home, the Big Green needed goalkeeper Sean Milligan '09 to come to the rescue in a 1-0 victory over Vermont.
Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth football might be winless, but the team has given us plenty of reason to believe it will have a successful Ivy League campaign, and that this season will not be as frustrating as years past. Dartmouth head coach Buddy Teevens put it perfectly after his team's loss to Colgate in week one: "Obviously we are disappointed with the end result today.
Jessica Griffen / The Dartmouth Staff lthough the 2007 school year is just two days old, the Dartmouth women's soccer team has been hard at work.