Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff This past week­end was hugely suc­cess­ful for a cou­ple of rea­sons. Not only did day­light sav­ings time give us an extra hour of “sleep” on Sat­ur­day night, but we also beat Cor­nell 28-10 for our fifth win of the sea­son. Our de­fense played its best game of the year, rack­ing up 10 sacks – two shy of the all-time Dart­mouth record set in 1973 – and hold­ing Cor­nell to 188 total yards of of­fense. Charles Bay ’11 had three sacks, while Buddy Be­naderet ’11 and Eddie Smith ’12 each had two to lead the charge. Chase Wom­ack ’13 also tacked on an in­ter­cep­tion for good mea­sure. Of­fen­sively, Nick Schwieger ’12 led the team with 164 rush­ing yards and two touch­downs and now has 942 yards and nine touch­downs on the sea­son. With an­other 58 yards, he could be­come the fourth player in school his­tory to run for 1,000 yards in a sin­gle sea­son. Co­in­ci­den­tally, I only need an­other 36 sharks to be­come the first player in school his­tory to record 1,000 in a sin­gle sea­son (NOTE: All shark­ing sta­tis­tics are un­of­fi­cial). Which feat is more im­pres­sive? You be the judge. And if you… Read more »

    Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff This week we played at Co­lum­bia for their Home­com­ing game. Being sched­uled for an­other team’s Home­com­ing is al­ways an eye­brow-raiser, and it meant one of three things: (1) they were under the im­pres­sion that we were Co­lum­bia alums who were eager to come back for Home­com­ing, but couldn’t be­cause we had a prior com­mit­ment (the game) and they wanted to make things more con­ve­nient for us; (2) they thought we were a prime­time op­po­nent that would draw the biggest pos­si­ble crowd; or (3) they thought they would beat us, and in turn please the old-timers and stim­u­late alumni do­na­tions. We can rule out the first op­tion be­cause it’s sim­ply the dumb­est ex­pla­na­tion I could come up with, and we can rule out the sec­ond op­tion be­cause I am our biggest “must-see” player and I wasn’t play­ing. That leaves us with op­tion three, in which case their plan was about as suc­cess­ful as Hanover Bucks be­cause we rode home Sat­ur­day night with a 24-21 vic­tory in the bank. Re­al­is­ti­cally, I ac­tu­ally don’t think Co­lum­bia chose to play us on Home­com­ing. The Ivy League foot­ball sched­ule hasn’t changed since like 1886 and I… Read more »