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 Big Green Alert HANOVER – Not surprisingly given his background working with the secondary, when head coach Sammy McCorkle offered up thoughts on the Dartmouth defense coming out of spring football he started in the back end. Secondary McCorkle began his remarks by talking about a rising junior who enjoyed a career game last year against Columbia featuring a ridiculously athletic interception, a key pass breakup in the end zone and a punt block he chased into the end zone for a touchdown. Although he finished the season with just seven tackles, Patrick Campbell had three pass breakups and two interceptions.  “Pat Campbell played a little bit for us last year,” McCorkle said. He's had one of the better springs of all the guys in the secondary along with Jamal Cooper. Those are two young guys who are in position to potentially to be starters for us.  “Jordan Barnes also had a good spring. We moved him around a little bit from corner to safety. Harrison Keith, unfortunately...

Big Green Alert HANOVER – Dartmouth’s Green-White spring game looked a little different this year. Not just because both teams were on the same sideline or because of an adjustment in which units were wearing what color. Not even because of the offense-defense scoring system that surely confused a lot of onlookers if not the players themselves. The most obvious difference for anyone who has watched the Big Green ring up three Ivy League titles in the past four seasons, wasn’t what they saw on the field. It was what they didn’t see. For the first time since the latest championship run began, there wasn’t a second quarterback rotating in and steamrolling defenders for first downs and touchdowns. Jackson Proctor, who will be behind center this fall, is more speedy and elusive than the running QBs Dartmouth has become famous for, but he’s not as overpowering as first Jared Gerbino and then Nick Howard. And even if he were, head coach Sammy McCorkle wouldn’t want the 205-pound senior plowin...