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Champs! Dartmouth beats Brown, will share Ivy title with Yale
Dartmouth football defeated Brown 29-23 on Saturday, earning the Big Green a share of the Ivy League championship for the first time since 2015.
Dartmouth football defeated Brown 29-23 on Saturday, earning the Big Green a share of the Ivy League championship for the first time since 2015.
The Big Red ran into Hanover and stunned Dartmouth with a 20-17 upset, winning a game against a ranked Ivy League team for the first time since 2006, and accomplishing this feat on the road for the first time since 1950.
With its 27-10 victory over No. 9 Princeton University (7-1, 4-1 Ivy) on Saturday, the Big Green now finds itself in prime position to accomplish the goal set at the beginning of the season: Bring the Ivy League championship back to Hanover.
In its 17 games dating back to the start of last season, No. 13 Dartmouth football is 16-1. No. 9 Princeton University football is 17-0. The one loss separating these two teams? The Tigers’ 14-9 defeat over the Big Green last November.
In sports, every successful season comes with its fair share of breaks, and the No. 14 Dartmouth football team certainly got one of its own on Saturday in Cambridge.
The No. 16 Big Green football team (6-0, 3-0 Ivy) overcame a slow start , defeating Columbia University (2-4, 1-2 Ivy) by a score of 59-24.
Another week, another big win for the Big Green. On Saturday, the No. 21 Dartmouth football team (5-0, 2-0 Ivy) continued its perfect season in a 49-7 rout of Marist College (1-5, 1-2 Pioneer) in Poughkeepsie, NY. This was the first-ever meeting between the two programs.
Bad bounces, poor calls, missed opportunities. While sports are frequently focused around the positive achievements of an individual or team, it’s often luck and randomness that can play a heavy hand in the outcome of a game. On Saturday, that is exactly what happened to the Dartmouth men’s soccer team in New Haven.
The best birthday present Eric Sachleben ’23 received this year was the one he gave himself: a game-winning goal against the reigning Ivy League champions. Behind Sachleben’s goal in the 72nd minute, the Dartmouth men’s soccer team (4-3-1, 1-0-0 Ivy) opened Ivy League play with a 1-0 win versus Princeton University (5-3-0, 0-1-0) on Saturday.
Volleyball comes back from a 2-0 deficit to beat Harvard in five sets on the road, field hockey wins in overtime, football wins its first home game of the season and more in this Week's Roundup.
The Dartmouth: Through the Ages presents a curated collection of the newspaper's archives from 1900 to the present.
