HANOVER – (Sept. 3 ) – Before digging into the “Who did what,” and “How did they look,” of Dartmouth’s first scrimmage of the preseason, let’s take care of what is frequently the No. 1 thing a coach brings up, and the No. 1 thing the media usually brings up. Where the coaches like to begin: how the team came through the scrimmage with regard to injuries. Apart from the trainers rushing out on the field to check into a prominent player who showed no ill effects after getting to his feet, there were no real scares in Wednesday’s action. “That’s the stuff that keeps you up at night,” said head coach Sammy McCorkle. “So it was good. Yeah, we had a couple of bumps here and there, but nothing serious. There were a couple times guys got tangled up. It's hard to be completely non-hitting and not take guys to the ground. But overall, I thought we came out OK. “I tell you what. Our guys do a good job of taking care of each other. They've really come a long ways. It's a mature ...

  HANOVER (Sept. 2) –  For as much as he appreciates having an all-weather artificial surface in Buddy Teevens Stadium, Dartmouth coach Sammy McCorkle has regularly eschewed practicing on the plastic stuff this preseason, and for several reasons. First, the two grass Blackman Practice Fields, which visiting scouts have in the past have praised as “NFL quality,” could not be in better shape this preseason. “This is a golf course,”said McCorkle earlier this week as he marveled at the kind of neatly trimmed, bright green lawn a suburbanite would kill for. “I mean, our facility crew does a phenomenal job keeping it up, and it’s not just the look. We’ve practiced on both fields and they are in really great condition. They couldn’t be better. We are very lucky to have them.” Before going on to the other reasons for crossing the street to practice on the pristine grass, a little history lesson. Not all that long ago, the only permanent facility at Chase Field was Thompson Arena. W...