BGA Overtime

Zalc Back In The Swing

HANOVER – For Owen Zalc, it was all so easy.

The 5-foot-10, 165-pound kicker was a Freshman All-American and first-team All-Ivy League pick in 2023 when he set the Ivy League record for field goals in a season by hitting 17-of-21 attempts.

A year later, he tied the Ivy League record with a 54-yarder on his way to a 13-of-17 season and a second selection to the All-Ivy first team.

Last fall, he booted a 51-yard field goal as time expired to give Dartmouth a 17-16 Homecoming win over Yale, but he would finish the year just 9-of-18, missing one more kick than in his first two seasons combined.

Zalc never made excuses, but there was an explanation.

Dartmouth football players salute their captain as safety Harrison Keith does an interview with Manchester TV station WMUR.

HANOVER – Hanging up his lacrosse stick wasn’t any easier for Harrison Keith the second time around than it was the first.

That said, Dartmouth’s senior co-captain knew it was the right thing to do, both for the Big Green football team this fall, and for wherever his career might take him.

Practice 4

HANOVER – Dartmouth’s 2025 rushing leader might be on the top line of the depth chart at FBS South Florida for the Bulls’ opener against Florida International in another week, but even without DJ Crowther, Big Green coach Sammy McCorkle likes what he has in his running back room.

It starts with 5-foot-10, 200-pound sophomore Myles Craddock, who gave an indication of what’s to come with 12 rushes for 46 yards and his first collegiate touchdown in last year’s finale at Brown. Craddock finished the season with 72 yards on the ground.

Practice 3 Indoors

HANOVER – Sammy McCorkle did not default to A&I, but he very well could have channeled Buddy Teevens’ and used one of the former Dartmouth coach's favorite expressions.

Yup, the Big Green adjusted and improvised.

Saunier Sunday

HANOVER – How Dartmouth quarterback Grayson Saunier responded after an ankle issue essentially turned him into a spectator during spring football offers an insight into why his teammates voted him a captain and why he's such an integral part of the team.

Sammy McCorkle addresses the team after practice.

HANOVER – When Dartmouth head coach Sammy McCorkle gathered his team on Blackman Practice Fields at the conclusion of the first preseason session of the year Saturday, he didn’t hold back.

McCorkle was probably a good 150 feet or so across the field from a couple dozen or so family members who decided to hang around for an extra day to watch practice after drop-off, but rest assured they could hear every word.

Harvard Preview

What are the chances that the two teams prognosticators pick to battle it out for the Ivy League championship both have starting quarterbacks named Dante this fall?

Pretty good actually.

Yale Preview

It's the ultimate cliché, but it's spot on. Last year was the best of times and the worst of times for the Yale football program.

It was the best because not only did the Bulldogs beat Harvard for the fourth time in a row to win a share of the Ivy League title, but they also won the first FCS playoff came in conference history one week, and the respect of the nation the next with a one-score loss to the eventual national champion.