So Far, So Good
It must be interesting to be a member of the Big Green football team these days. Coming into the season, the team was picked to vie for the Ivy League cellar as in the past three seasons, consecutive 2-8 campaigns.
It must be interesting to be a member of the Big Green football team these days. Coming into the season, the team was picked to vie for the Ivy League cellar as in the past three seasons, consecutive 2-8 campaigns.
Big Green women's soccer allows early goal, can't battle back in shutout under the lights
The Boston University Terriers did all they could yesterday afternoon to give the Dartmouth field hockey team's fans at Scully-Fahey Field something to cheer about.
BOSTON " Ray Bourque was immortalized as the Boston Bruins retired his number 77 before their home opener against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
It isn't hard to elicit a positive opinion about Ashley Dean '02. Just ask anyone who plays alongside the volleyball tri-captain. "Ashley Dean is an amazing volleyball player, teammate and person," sophomore setter Chelsea Morgan says of the outside hitter, expressing an opinion typical of those who don the Green and White. A native Californian, Dean began her competitive career as a freshman at La Jolla High School.
The Dartmouth men's golf team placed third in a 22-team field at the Toski Invitational, held Sunday and yesterday in Amherst, Mass.
Club Roundup: Water Polo now a perfect 8-0
Greg Smith '02 was named co-Ivy Offensive Player of the Week in football after completing 38 of 54 passes for 407 yards and five TDs in a 32-27 win at Yale Sunday. Kirsten Anderson '02 earned Ivy Player of the Week honors in field hockey after making 22 saves in a weekend sweep of Yale and 20th-ranked Holy Cross.
This past Saturday, the DWRC overcame high winds at Sachem and prevailed over Brown University by a score of 19-7. The A-Side game featured lots of countgerattacking by the green back three.
"It's 10:28 p.m. Texas time and OU still sucks." That is what ousucks.com read last night on the night before the eve of Saturday's football game between The University of Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma University Sooners. Being lucky enough to call myself "a born-again Texan" (someone who saw the light and moved to Texas before it was too late), it has taken me only a short time to realize what every true Texan learns right after their mother gives birth to them " that OU sucks! Sure, last year OU beat Texas 63-14 in what was a very lopsided game in OU's favor.
Two late-game losses into this young season, Dartmouth football looks to the horizon and sees a chance to break through into the win column in its future.
With the Ivy League volleyball season set to swing into full gear this weekend, the members of the Ancient Eight competed in tough tournaments last weekend in preparation.
In their first home win this season, Dartmouth's women's soccer team defeated UNH 3-2, extending their winning streak to two. The Wildcats jumped on the scoreboard first just 2:42 into the contest when freshman Chiara Best lofted a shot over the head of Julia Shields '04 for a 1-0 lead.
Die-hard readers of The Hardcore Truth, prepare for a new era. Now that fellow columnist Daniel Kay has sufficiently bitten my style, I can write about real issues, like professional sports destroying society. There is no question that sports are beautiful, almost art-like, and that without them one cannot complete the trinity of mind, body and spirit.
Sports got you confused? Been out of touch? Not surprised that Michael Jordan back in the NBA because you never knew he left?
Dartmouth's sailing team once again stepped up and asserted its excellence at a myriad of competitions this past weeeknd.
Shannon Rogers '04 continued her steady play from last week to pace the Dartmouth women's golf team to a 3rd place finish at the Mount Holyoke Invitational at South Hadley, MA, which took place this past weekend.
Big Green football team shows mettle in early season losses
There is an old saying that says people without money know who their friends are. Conversely, Barry Bonds knows who his enemies are.
The Ivy League opener for Dartmouth football looms on the morrow, and a sense of dread already hangs over it from the point of view of the Big Green fandom.