The Title Defense Begins
Senior quarterback Jackson Proctor airs one out on Day One of the preseason. HANOVER (Aug. 24) – It would have been completely understandable for there to be concerns about what the future held for the Dartmouth football team when it opened training camp a year ago at this time. Longtime head coach Buddy Teevens was hospitalized, Sammy McCorkle was running the show as the interim and the Big Green was picked sixth in the Ivy League preseason media poll after coming in sixth a year before. Flash forward 12 months and with the unfortunate passing of Teevens, McCorkle is now the full-time head coach and Dartmouth has been voted fourth in the Ivy poll. This time, however, the Big Green kicked off training camp Saturday morning as a defending Ivy League champion. And yet, if you ask McCorkle how different it feels this year, he’ll tell you the more things change, the more they stay the same. “To tell you the truth, it doesn't really feel that different this year,” McCorkle said after a
