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.
