Football set for home Ivy opener against brawling Bulldogs

Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff With the Dartmouth football team set for a Saturday afternoon meeting with Yale (2-1, 1-0 Ivy) on its home turf, the Big Green will be looking for its first victory against a team that is going through some rough times off the field. Yale University's star running back Mike McLeod, last weekend's Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week, along with quarterback Matthew Polhemus, were provoked into a brawl last Sunday morning in New Haven, Conn., with several members of the Bulldogs' hockey team. McLeod and Polhemus were arrested, with McLeod being charged with breach of the peace in the second degree and criminal mischief in the third degree.

Sacred Heart buries men's soccer with 87th-minute goal

EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth men's soccer team's inability to finish chances and maintain their concentration for 90 minutes proved detrimental in yet another game Wednesday.

Rugby overcomes UNH and the elements in weekend rout

Crew strong at Occoquan Regatta

Field hockey holds off Wildcats to earn second straight victory

EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff Behind a staunch defensive effort, the Dartmouth field hockey team recorded its third victory of the season this weekend, downing the University of New Hampshire Wildcats, 2-1, Sunday afternoon at Memorial Field in Durham, N.H.

Sailing cruises at Coast Guard

Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff Dartmouth sailors battled strange winds and stormy weather in one women's and three coed regattas over the weekend. After last weekend's singlehanded and four-person sloop qualifying events, the Big Green returned to competition in two-person boats this weekend.

Tennis routs Rutgers, splits with St. John's and Cornell

EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff After a disappointing first day at the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament, the Big Green men's tennis team rallied to finish 2-1 and ninth overall in a 16 team field. The Big Green dominated Rutgers in virtually every match, but against the more competitive Cornell and St.

Men's golf overcomes slow start, women's woes continue

Men's soccer continues to struggle

EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff Last year's Ivy champion, Dartmouth, has experienced a rough start to this season, winning only two of its first eight games and managing to score only six goals thus far.

Women's soccer defeats Princeton, still undefeated in league

Kawakahi Amina / The Dartmouth Staff An Emily Tracy '07 goal in the 39th minute of play was enough to lift Dartmouth women's soccer to the top of the Ivy League as the Big Green (6-3-1, 2-0 Ivy) rolled over Princeton (4-4-1, 0-2 Ivy) 1-0 on Saturday afternoon at Lourie-Love Field. "Beating Princeton was a huge win for us because it gets us one step closer to our goal of the Ivy championship," Tracy said.

Football fails in bid for first victory of season at Penn

Emma Haberman / The Dartmouth Senior Staff They call Philadelphia "The City of Brotherly Love." So it came as no surprise that when Jason Bash '06 trotted out onto the fabled Franklin Field against the University of Pennsylvania Quakers (2-1, 1-0 Ivy) on Saturday, some of the Penn fans gave him a standing ovation.

Women's volleyball takes second at Dartmouth Invitational

Jennie Post / The Dartmouth Staff For the Dartmouth women's volleyball team, two points turned out to be the difference between a heartening victory in a home tournament, complete with a win over an Ivy League rival, and a bittersweet second-place finish. Although the Big Green managed to score two convincing victories against the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Robert Morris University in Saturday's competition, an emotional Friday night loss to Harvard that ended in a 15-13 fifth game cost the Big Green first place in the Dartmouth Invitational and soured an otherwise encouraging weekend. Before a revved up crowd at Leede Arena in that match, the Big Green (6-6, 0-2 Ivy) dominated the first two games (30-21, 30-22), playing some of its best volleyball of the season.

Field Hockey beats Penn at home

EMI ITO / The Dartmouth Staff Co-captain Whitney Waugh '08 and Stef Miller '09 scored nearly 30 seconds apart in the first half and the Big Green defense held off two corners in the waning moments of the second half to lead the Dartmouth field hockey team over the University of Pennsylvania, 2-1, Saturday afternoon at Scully-Fahey Field in Hanover. The win over the Quakers (3-7, 1-2 Ivy) gave the Big Green (2-6, 1-2 Ivy) its first victory in the Ivy League this year.