HANOVER – For as complicated as the X's and O's can make it look, at its essence football is really a very simple game.
Block and tackle. That's it.
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Fearful Forecast Week Five
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
Vince Lombardi
HANOVER – We all know Fearful Forecast is never going to be perfect over the course of a season. It it were, we’d quit this gig and move to Las Vegas.
Optimist-Pessimist Before Merrimack
HANOVER – The server looks over at the two old guys who grab a bite together every Tuesday morning and is surprised to see both are laughing.
Your Mileage May Vary After Yale
HANOVER – It’s Monday, and that can mean only one thing. OK, it can mean a lot of things, but in this case, it means it is time for the weekly Six Pack Plus One.
1) How many of us were waiting for that fourth-quarter magic Saturday against Yale?
What They Did And What They Said
HANOVER – A little “inside baseball” about covering Ivy League football.
When I started as our local newspaper’s beat writer for Dartmouth football back in the dark ages, we did postgame player interviews in the locker room. You can imagine how uncomfortable it was wandering around the old Davis Varsity House locker room with players in various stages of dressing or undressing.
Yale Frustrated Big Green
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Dartmouth had reached into its bag of tricks in each of the last two seasons to record dramatic come-from-behind wins over Yale.
This time it was just too much to ask.
Dartmouth-Yale Act III
Oct. 12, 2024: Dartmouth 44, Yale 43 (ot)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale holds a 30-7 lead over Dartmouth late in the third quarter. The score is 37-16 midway through the fourth quarter before the Big Green scores two touchdowns in a span of 56 seconds to pull within 37-30.
After Yale’s 47-yard field goal sails wide left, Dartmouth’s Grayson Saunier ties the score on a 32-yard quarterback draw with 1:22 on the clock. When Yale’s 46-yard field goal attempt with three seconds remaining is wide left yet again, the game goes to overtime.
The Big Green escapes a second-and-17 hole in the top half of the overtime and scores a touchdown to take a 44-37 lead. Yale responds with a touchdown in the bottom half of the OT and opts to go for the win. The Bulldogs have an open receiver, but an overthrow gives Dartmouth the biggest comeback in school history.
Oct. 11, 2025: Dartmouth 17, Yale 16
HANOVER – The Yale defense is pitching a shutout, and the offense is doing enough to give the Bulldogs a 10-0 lead through three quarters.
A six-yard Saunier run caps a 92-yard drive and pulls Dartmouth within 10-7 with 10:24 remaining. At the 4:13 mark, it is Saunier running 37 yards to finish off a 75-yard drive to give the home team a 14-10 lead.
Yale answers right back as quarterback Dante Reno drives the Bulldogs 70 yards in 12 plays, the last a four-yard touchdown pass that brings a two-point lead with 37 seconds remaining. With an extra point, Dartmouth needs a miracle touchdown to win the game outright or a field goal to force overtime.
Except the Yale kicking game lets the Bulldogs down again as the PAT fails.
Dartmouth takes over at its own 25. Seven plays and two Big Green timeouts later, Owen Zalc drills a 51-yard field goal for another dramatic, one-point Dartmouth win.
Fearful Forecast Week Four
HANOVER – The Fearful Forecast er brandvarme!
After going 5-1 in Week Two and 5-0 last week, you might say the FF is en fuego, but I thought I’d tap into my Danish roots to report the Forecast is burning hot.
Penn and Princeton look like locks this week. Columbia should be one, but isn’t. Cornell could pull a surprise, and the Brown-Bryant game is the biggest puzzle of them all.
It all starts Friday Night!
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