Oldschoolhornet said:
Although I can appreciate the fact that you could get into Dartmouth I have NEVER heard anyone brag about playing football there or playing on TV.
Then, you are stupid.
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With both Dartmouth and Yale unbeaten and rated nationally not only in both of the wire-service polls but also in the NCAA statistics, the largest crowd to see a non-Harvard game at Yale Bowl since Army was there in 1954 assembled on one of those crackling red-and-gold New England afternoons that helped to make football popular in the first place. A large part of the conversation was somewhat defensive, with people assuring one another that this whole thing was really great, that Dartmouth and Yale could certainly perform respectably against Ohio State or Texas or anybody else, and that Ivy League football, after all, is played by students. So without question
in the minds of the 60,820 people who had come to watch it, this Yale-Dartmouth match was going to settle at least the amateur college football championship of the season."
"Unfortunately for the Yale crowd, it didn't take long to establish which was the better team. Massey stuck to a plan that stubbornly insisted his two fast running backs—
Dick Jauron and Don Martin—could break through between the Dartmouth tackles, despite evidence to the contrary." [Jauron and Martin both played in the NFL, and replaced Calvin Hill at Yale. You've probably never heard of Calvin Hill, the NFL rookie of the year.]
https://vault.si.com/vault/1970/11/09/just-ask-the-tailgate-set-who-is-no-1
"One thing you certainly don't expect in the Ivy League is a nationally ranked team, but that's what coach Bob Black-man fielded at Dartmouth in 1970.
That year Dartmouth was undefeated and untied, producing such outstanding stats that it was ranked 14th in both the AP and UPI final polls, ahead of Oklahoma, Penn State and Southern Cal [and Alabama and Georgia]. Dartmouth's 9-0 record included six shutouts—four in a row to end the season. Among major colleges that year Dartmouth ranked second in total defense and sixth in total offense, and led the country in scoring defense."
"It was the cradle of football, and a number of its players have excelled in the NFL—
Calvin Hill, Ed Marinaro, Gary Fencik and Nick Lowery, for example" [And Dick Jauron, Marty Domres, George Starke, Marcellus Wiley, Jeff Kemp, Jay Fielder, Reggie Williams, Dave Shula, John Spagola]
"https://vault.si.com/vault/1987/08/31/a-big-year-for-big-green