BGA Overtime

BGA (May 22) – Dartmouth’s annual spring Green-White Game earlier this month was unlike any before it, but also familiar. As was the case through much of the spring, the weather did not cooperate. Given just three returning starters on offense and three on defense, head coach Sammy McCorkle very much wanted the 12th and final session of the spring to be a meaningful practice and not a slippery mess, so he had it moved indoors for the first time ever. Conducting a scoring scrimmage on a 70-yard field had its challenges. Still the first indoor Green-White did have echoes of the past. According to those in attendance, play was sharp. The enthusiasm was palpable. And while there was no tackling, of course, there was plenty of action and more physicality than you might expect in a non-tackling contest. Rising senior wide receiver Daniel Haughton knew the team would be unfazed by the change of venues from Memorial Field to the indoor facility. “We always talk about sudden change and ...

HANOVER – If you’ve been reading the headlines, you know the spring football game is an endangered species at the FBS level. Fortunately for Dartmouth fans, the Green-White Game isn’t going anywhere. Actually, that may not be true. While head coach Sammy McCorkle has no intention of scrapping the annual contest, the Green-White might be going somewhere after all. Where, you ask? Across the street to the Indoor Practice Facility, AKA the Green House. Although McCorkle made it clear earlier in the week he wanted the last of the 12 spring dates allowed by the Ivy League to be in Buddy Teevens Stadium, a look at the weather forecast has him somewhat reluctantly pondering a venue shift for the Saturday morning event. “If it’s a downpour, I don’t want (play) to be sloppy and not get anything out of it,” McCorkle said after Thursday’s practice under gun-metal skies at Memorial Field. “That’s not what we’re trying to do in the spring. “I want to get a good practice in, so if we have...