So Player, now that you made everyone else..

[THE BETCH]

Love that Blackman quote. :thumb:

 

[go4two]

Dartmouth won the Lambert Trophy over 7-3 Penn St that year. I think Franco Harris and Lydell Mitchell were their running backs that year. Only 3 teams scored on Dartmouth. Only 1 TD given up by first team defense. 6 TDS and 42 points, or a 4.2 average. The Ivy league has only 8 members for your information.

"Blackman's 1970 Dartmouth team, which held six of its nine opponents scoreless, concluded with a rare-for-the-Ivies top-20 ranking (14th) in the two national polls and won the Lambert Trophy as the best team in the East.

Penn State Coach Joe Paterno, partly in jest, challenged this award and suggested a postseason game between his team -- a perennial national power -- and Dartmouth. ''If we were allowed to play a postseason game, I'd prefer to play a team with a better record,'' Blackman replied. Penn State's was 7-3."

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/20/sports/bob-blackman-81-coach-of-dartmouth-football-is-dead.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What a wonderful achievement PlayerRep, but you didn't answer my question as to how Dartmouth would have fared in one of the three big power conferences I listed?

Would it be fair to say that the Ivy League Conference was not as strong top to bottom as the conferences I listed above? Dare I say that the conference was one of the weakest? Out of 123 teams, Darmouth's schedule strength was ranked 118. Penn St's was 80/123. Although said in jest, I think Joe Pa was on to something.

http://www.phys.utk.edu/sorensen/cfr/cfr/output/1970/CF_1970_Ranking_Schedule.html

 

[PlayerRep]

Dartmouth won the Lambert Trophy over 7-3 Penn St that year. I think Franco Harris and Lydell Mitchell were their running backs that year. Only 3 teams scored on Dartmouth. Only 1 TD given up by first team defense. 6 TDS and 42 points, or a 4.2 average. The Ivy league has only 8 members for your information.

"Blackman's 1970 Dartmouth team, which held six of its nine opponents scoreless, concluded with a rare-for-the-Ivies top-20 ranking (14th) in the two national polls and won the Lambert Trophy as the best team in the East.

Penn State Coach Joe Paterno, partly in jest, challenged this award and suggested a postseason game between his team -- a perennial national power -- and Dartmouth. ''If we were allowed to play a postseason game, I'd prefer to play a team with a better record,'' Blackman replied. Penn State's was 7-3."

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/20/sports/bob-blackman-81-coach-of-dartmouth-football-is-dead.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What a wonderful achievement PlayerRep, but you didn't answer my question as to how Dartmouth would have fared in one of the three big power conferences I listed?

Would it be fair to say that the Ivy League Conference was not as strong top to bottom as the conferences I listed above? Dare I say that the conference was one of the weakest? Out of 123 teams, Darmouth's schedule strength was ranked 118. Penn St's was 80/123. Although said in jest, I think Joe Pa was on to something.

http://www.phys.utk.edu/sorensen/cfr/cfr/output/1970/CF_1970_Ranking_Schedule.html

Dartmouth could have beaten all but the top teams on any given day. Dartmouth was 1st in the nation in scoring defense (4.7), and 6th in scoring offense. The Dartmouth defense was very good. As I said, the first team defense gave up only 1 TD the entire season. No one kicked a FG agaisnt Dartmouth the entire season.

Dartmouth did not have the depth to compete in the top conferences. The top conferences were stronger than the Ivies. We could have played with 7-3 Penn St that year. They played only 1 top 20 team, and had lost. When Dartmouth played Yale that year, I believe Yale was also ranked in top 20. Calvin Hill had played for Yale 2 years earlier, been a first round pick, and was rookie of the year in the NFL. Monte Domres, a Columbia qb, had recently been a first round pick. Ed Marinaro of Cornell was a junior that year, led the nation in rushing, was runner-up for the Heisman the next year, was the first pick of the Vikes, and started in 2 Super Bowls. Dick Jauron and Don Martin were Yale's running backs that year. Both played in the NFL. Hank Bjorkland was the Princeton running back, near the top in nation in rushing the next year, and played in the NFL. That year Dartmouth played against 5 running backs who went to the NFL. George Starke of Columbia was one of the original "hogs" for the Wash. Redskins. He was a TE in college. Greg Landry, a UMass qb, was a first round pick a couple years earlier. UMass was a common non-conference opponent of the Ivies. Dartmouth played Boston College in pre-season games twice in this era, and beat them both times. Dartmouth also won the Lambert Trophy (for the best team in the East in 1965 and 1962).

The Ivy league had at least 2 first-team all-americans that year, including one at Dartmouth. Dartmouth had several players play in post-season all-star games that year. Hula Bowl, East-West Shrine game, Coaches All-American Game, and some all-star game in Florida (don't recall name). A Dartmouth player was the SI national defensive player of the week after the Yale game (think Steve Worster of Texas was the national offensive player that week). SI gave the Dartmouth-Yale game a two-page story the following week, and 61,000 people attended the game. Dartmouth played one game each year on ABC television, with the no. 1 ABC announcing crew the following year.