Football dominates Brown
In Cambridge, Penn comes from behind to defeat Harvard
In Cambridge, Penn comes from behind to defeat Harvard
As the fall sports season comes to a close and winter begins, some teams are looking to place well in the league championships and finish the season with a victory while others look to open the season with one. Cross country After a successful season which saw the men and women ranked among the top New England teams, Dartmouth closes it season with the IC4A Championships at George Mason. The women also travel to George Mason for the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships.
Big Green hope for Penn loss to Harvard in Cambridge
Despite being split between the Yale Invitational and the Princeton Chase this past weekend, Dartmouth crews were bound by a common strand -- success. The Big Green varsity men's lightweight eight, which raced at Princeton, finished fourth in 13 minutes, 53.4 seconds.
Depending on freshmen for your team's success is college sport's version of playing the stock market with your entire life savings.
Stop me if you've heard this one before. The Dartmouth football team entered the fourth quarter trailing (stop!) Columbia by four points before turning on the turbo boosters and blowing past the unusually roaring Lions. Jay and the Miracles have now gone to the fourth quarter with a lead just twice -- against Yale and Bucknell -- but are still riding a four-game winning streak to stretch their record to 5-3 overall, 4-1 in the Ivy League. What a fun, freaky team.
Despite a slow start at the beginning of the season, the Big Green men's tennis team ended with a strong performance last weekend at the Rolex Tournament in Princeton, N.J. "As a team we struggled for a lot of the fall, but at Rolex the guys in the main draw really played well," Captain Dan Coakley '94 said. Entering the tournament seeded third, Coakley was especially pleased with his second place finish, which qualified him for the National Indoors, which will be held Feb, 3-6 in Dallas, Texas. Jim Rich '96 and Holden Spaht '96 also competed at the Rolex and performed well, making it to the round of 16 players, according to Coach Chuck Kinyon. "Overall we had a great weekend," Kinyon said.
The men's soccer team completed an uneven season this weekend, splitting road games against the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. Dartmouth ended the year on a high note with a come-from-behind 2-1 victory over the Quakers Sunday in Philadelphia.
While Dartmouth was pummeling Columbia in New York, its hopes for a fourth consecutive title may have ended about 70 miles south on Franklin Field. After Dartmouth's season-opening 10-6 loss to the University of Pennsylvania, the Big Green knew they would need someone to knock off the Quakers to have a chance to even tie for the title. And if there was any team that was going to do it, it would be the Princeton Tigers. Coming into Saturday's Penn Homecoming game in Philadelphia, both Penn and Princeton sported identical 7-0 overall and 4-0 Ivy League records. But Princeton completely dominated the Quakers, rolling up 451 total yards and coasting to a 30-14 victory over the Tigers in front of more than 35,000 fans in Philadelphia. After the game, fans who had chanted "Ivy Champs" toward the end of the game, stormed the field, ripped down the goal posts and tossed them in a nearby river. Now the Big Green must beat Brown and Princeton, and pray for either Harvard or Cornell to upset the seemingly invincible Quakers. The best bet is for a Crimson victory this weekend in Cambridge, Mass.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6 -- At the tail-end of a play during the football game here, a Columbia player barreled into Big Green assistant coach Drew Tallman on the sidelines, bruising the cartilage between his ribs. Tallman, a volunteer tight end coach, was taken to St.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6 -- You could tell what kind of afternoon it was going to be from the very beginning. On the opening kickoff, Brittanny Boulanger '95 stripped the ball from a Columbia player, dribbled through an entire half of the field and won a corner kick for the Big Green. Although Dartmouth didn't score directly off Boulanger's run, it set the tone for the rest of the game. Call it total Dartmouth domination. The Big Green simply overwhelmed Columbia, out-shooting the Lions, 28-2, and defeating them, 2-0. The victory raised Dartmouth's overall record to 12-2-1.
NEW YORK, Nov. 6 -- Both Dartmouth and Columbia thoroughly dominated two quarters of today's match-up between one of the Ivy League's Prince Charmings and the foulest of the league's ugly step sisters. That Dartmouth, which came away with a 42-25 victory, happened to dominate the second and the fourth quarter better than Columbia did the first and the third did little to ease a very frog-like performance by the aptly-monikered Big Green. Despite the win, Dartmouth's title hopes suffered a severe set-back in Philadelphia.
It's fairly rare that you head to a football game hoping it turns into a 41-7 blowout. But after two weeks in which the Dartmouth football team effectively doubled the blood pressure of anyone who dared to enter the heart-pounding confines of Memorial Field, that's just what anyone who is making the trip down to New York City for the Big Green's match-up with the Columbia Lions is hoping for -- a boring, reach-for-the-No-Doz thrashing. Even the Miracle Man himself, Jay Fiedler '94, admitted at the end of last week's 39-34 come-from-17-points-down clipping of Harvard that, "We have to stop doing this to ourselves." Dartmouth (4-3 overall, 3-1 Ivy League) certainly couldn't have a more apt candidate for a trouncing.
As the Fall athletic season winds down, several teams square off in the final games of the term. With hopes of post-season play burning in their minds, the Big Green looks to close their record books with notches in the win column.
Novice men's and women's crew began competition last weekend at home in the Dartmouth Invitational. Freshman crews from the University of New Hampshire, Columbia, Boston University and Dartmouth competed in the evert.
A relatively short amount of time has passed since first-year coach Julie Dayton arrived in Hanover to try and salvage something -- anything -- positive out of the 1993 field hockey season. There were some who had all but written off the season before it even began.
Two weeks ago the Dartmouth women's rugby club travelled to the University of Massachuseets in Amherst, Mass., to combat other New England teams for the Mayor's Cup in the Beantown Tournament. After two days of play, the club came home with the second place trophy after losing in the finals against the University of Connecticut. Aggressive rugby brought the team to the finals.
Women place eighth overall, men are 15th in season finale
After weeks of picking up momentum for the showdown of the year in Ivy League football, Penn and Princeton, both 7-0 overall, 4-0 Ivy League, finally set their collision course in stone this weekend. It's been 25 years since two undefeated Ivy League teams played each other this late in the season, and it looks like Saturday's rumble in Philadelphia will be worth the wait. Penn has the league's highest scoring offense.
The Big Green football team needs to win its final three Ivy League games to get a shot at a fourth consecut.... Time out.