Dartmouth Big Green NCAA Football News

They came in 34 strong did the recruits in the Class of 2010, firm in the resolve that they would help restore the proud tradition of the winningest program in the history of Ivy League football.

Red plaid, Christmas trees and a giant Santa Clause set the stage for an old-fashioned Christmas at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation's sixth annual Festival of the Greens on Saturday.

Sophomore Foley Schmidt converted a 40-yard field goal in the second overtime before Cornell missed a 36-yarder to the left, giving host Dartmouth a 20-17 victory in double overtime on Saturday afternoon at Memorial Field.

Kenny Gunter ran for 173 yards and two touchdowns to lead Princeton to a 23-11 victory over Dartmouth on Saturday in the season finale for both teams.

Dartmouth junior Tanner Scott caught seven passes for 116 yards with a touchdown, but Harvard racked up 521 yards of offense and six touchdowns to maintain its perfect Ivy record by defeating the Big Green 42-21 on blustery Saturday afternoon at Harvard Stadium.

The Dartmouth football team will play host to Princeton this Saturday in the finale of the 2009 season.

Dartmouth Press Release: The youthful Dartmouth football team is aiming to end its season on a high note when it hosts the Princeton Tigers on Senior Day this Saturday on Memorial Field at 12:30 p.m. in the battle for the Sawhorse Dollar, given annually to the winner of this game since 2002.

Dartblog's post the other day about Football Coach Buddy Teevens '79 has elicited multiple expressions of heart-felt support, including the following two missives from parents of players.

Week 10, November 16, 2009 OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Penn senior quarterback KYLE OLSON had a stellar day in a driving rainstorm in the Quakers' 17-7 win over Harvard to win a share of their first Ivy title in six seasons.

For a while there the hounds were baying for Buddy's head, but the football team's strong showing at Brown and its two wins in its last four games seem to have shut them up.

Columbia quarterback M.A. Olawale ran for two touchdowns in the second half, sparking the Lions to a 30-20 win over Cornell on Saturday.

Buddy Farnham caught a 17-yard pass from Kyle Newhall-Caballero in overtime to lead Brown to a 14-7 victory over Dartmouth on Saturday.

PRINCETON TOWNSHIP "" Princeton football coach Roger Hughes calls his freshman class one of the best of his 10 seasons guiding the program.

Dartmouth Press Release: Third place is on the line in Providence, R.I., this Saturday when the surging Dartmouth Big Green take on host Brown at 12:30 p.m. Dartmouth has won two of its last three games, including a 20-17 double-overtime thriller against Cornell this past weekend, with a different player breaking the school's single-game rushing ...

Week 9, November 9, 2009 OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK Dartmouth freshman quarterback GREG PATTON broke the Dartmouth single-game rushing record with 243 yards on the ground on 29 carries, plus scored both Big Green touchdowns in a 20-17 double-overtime victory against Cornell, in his first action in a collegiate varsity game.

Harvard 34, Columbia 14 NEW YORK CITY -- The Harvard football team turned a 21-0 halftime lead into a 34-14 victory over Columbia Saturday afternoon behind four touchdowns and two field goals.

The Ivy League boasted eight student-athletes on the annual ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District teams for football announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America .

Chad Kackert rushed for 166 yards and two touchdowns as Rhode Island defeated New Hampshire 55-42 on Saturday.

Greg Patton rushed for 245 yards and two touchdowns and broke Dartmouth's single-game rushing record in a 20-17 double overtime win over Cornell on Saturday.

After a disappointing 42-21 loss to Harvard last weekend, the Dartmouth football team returns home this weekend to face Ivy League foe Cornell in an important league game with Ivy standing implications.