New coach, new season for Big Green men's swimming
Wilson hopes to being success to struggling program
Wilson hopes to being success to struggling program
Some go for the races, some go for the free apple cider and some for the thrill of being part of a crowd larger than any ever found in Hanover. Every October about 100 Dartmouth students make the two-hour trek to Cambridge, Mass.
A self study by a committee from the Athletic Department, chaired by Associate Director of Athletics Josie Harper, investigated the issue of gender equality in Dartmouth athletics and the new regulations are affecting teams differently. The committee's report called for the Athletic Department to continue adjusting its programs to ensure equal treatment of male and female athletes. Last year the committee submitted a report examining the policies and procedures of the Athletic Department.
Big Green face Cornell in Ithaca
The women's volleyball team remained winless as losses to Columbia and Cornell in Leede Arena last weekend lowered their record to 0-12 overall and 0-5 in the Ivy League. Friday, the Big Green lost to Columbia 12-15, 15-4, 15-6, 15-13, despite rallying to a 13-13 tie in the final game of the match. The following day, defending Ivy League champion Cornell brought its undefeated Ancient Eight record into Leede Arena and downed the Big Green 15-4, 14-16, 15-3, 15-8. The Cornell team proved to be too tall for Dartmouth, as it controlled the net most of the game.
Final tune-up for the Big Green before Heptagonal Championships
The women's golf team traveled to the Mount Holyoke Invitational this past Friday. Along the way, they played their best overall golf and placed fourth out of seven teams -- their best finish this season -- as they defeated Ivy rivals Yale and Harvard. "We had our best performance of the season on the first day," Coach Izzy Johnson said.
Pennsylvania 36, Columbia 7 Quaker Quarterback Jim McGeehan completed 23 passes for 284 yards and three touchdowns as Penn stayed undefeated with a 36-7 crushing of the hapless Columbia Lions to pull into a first place tie with Princeton in the Ancient Eight race. Sophomore Miles Macik, who caught nine of those passes for 104 yards and two touchdowns, is the top receiver in Division I-AA and has already tied a school record for TD receptions in a season. Columbia signal caller Chad Andrzelewaki scrambled for 39 of the Lions 65 running yards of the day and scored his team's only touchdown against a Penn defense that is ranked eleventh nationally. Princeton 31, Lehigh 23 Princeton, the Division I-AA's 24th ranked team, pumped its overall record to 5-0 with a 31-23 win over Lehigh in a game that saw the Engineers aerial attack shred the Ivy League's top-rated defense for 400 yards of passing. Keith Elias kept his position as the Division I-AA's top rusher as he piled up 160 yards despite playing with an injured hip.
Results from Head of the Connecticut show signs of promise
Big Green comes back to within one, but Tigers prevail
Big Green women trounce the Tigers
A thin mist covered the Yale Bowl on Saturday morning and into the early afternoon as the Big Green methodically plodded through their pre-game drills.
The men's soccer team suffered a crushing 3-2 overtime defeat yesterday against Princeton. With just over 15 minutes remaining in regulation time, Princeton faced a seemingly insurmountable two-goal deficit.
The dress rehearsal is over -- it's time for the Big Dance. For the Dartmouth football team, the dance is called the Ivy League One-Step.
Big Green dominate Eagles, prepare for Ivy rival Princeton
At the beginning of the term, 30 members of the Dartmouth rugby football club returned to Hanover to prepare for the fall season as a part of the new eight-team New England super league. After playing three preseason games, the Big Green ruggers defeated Amherst at Sachem in the home opener. But their initial success was short lived.
The men's and women's tennis teams took divergent paths this weekend. At the Eastern College Athletic Championship tournament at Princeton, the men's squad suffered a rare lack of form and lost, while the women's squad showed promise at the Brown Invitational. The Brown Invitational was an individual tournament with various flights of competition.
On the chilly fields of Sachem this past Saturday, the Dartmouth women's rugby club continued it winning ways when they sent Ivy rival Radcliffe home defeated and dejected. Play began with a close game between the Killer B's of Dartmouth and Radcliffe's second side.
Brown's goal in closing moments considered questionable
The Dartmouth water polo team competed in its second tournament this weekend at Williams College. The Big Green finished with a 2-2 record to secure a third place finish in the Eastern Division of the Eastern Water Polo Association rankings and received a bid to the EWPA championships.