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By ALEX CERVANTES

It’s late October in Manhattan and the Dartmouth football team’s defense, which held Columbia scoreless in the first half, had forced a three-and-out to begin the third quarter. Out trotted Lions punter William Hughes to boot the ball back to the Big...

By ALEX CERVANTES

Fresh off capturing a share of the Ivy League title for the second consecutive season, the Dartmouth College football team had 15 players earn postseason distinctions, the league announced on Tuesday. Sophomore kicker Owen Zalc took home the Ivy...

By ALEX CERVANTES

HANOVER — The Dartmouth College football team had done all it could. Now it was time to wait.Minutes removed from capping their season with a resounding 56-28 victory over Brown — propelled by a standout, seven-touchdown performance from senior...

By ALEX CERVANTES

Dartmouth College senior linebacker Braden Mullen can’t bring himself to root for Yale. After a four-year stint in the Ivy League, a span that saw him go 2-2 against the Bulldogs, it’s just too tough.But Mullen and the Big Green’s Ivy title hopes —...

By ALEX CERVANTES

Ahead of his team’s penultimate clash of the 2024 campaign against Cornell on Saturday, Dartmouth College football coach Sammy McCorkle is still preaching complete focus on the next opponent. The mantra of going “1-0 each week” is oft repeated in...

By ALEX CERVANTES

On the heels of a four-point homecoming loss to Harvard — one that saw the Ivy League title picture become murkier as a result — Dartmouth traveled to New Jersey for a Friday night date with Princeton. The nationally televised clash was one the Big...

By ALEX CERVANTES

In the immediate aftermath of Dartmouth’s 31-27 homecoming defeat to Harvard on Saturday, senior quarterback Jackson Proctor, in his first game back since a three-game hiatus due to injury, used one of his coach’s favorite adages.“Obviously it wasn’t...

By ALEX CERVANTES

For the sixth consecutive time this season, the margin of victory in a Dartmouth football game was within four points. But Saturday’s homecoming tilt with Harvard marked the first instance this fall where the Big Green emerged as the loser in a...

HANOVER — Jaden Craig threw for 311 yards and a touchdown, Charles DePrima rushed for two fourth-quarter touchdowns and Harvard beat Dartmouth, 31-27, on Saturday for its fifth straight win, knocking the Big Green from the ranks of the unbeaten.It was...

By ALEX CERVANTES

Let’s rewind to late September. On the same day sophomore kicker Owen Zalc’s heroics ensured Dartmouth escaped North Andover, Mass., with a 16-14 victory over Merrimack, Harvard kicker Kieran Corr was lining up for a standard 27-yard field goal at the...

By ALEX CERVANTES

NEW YORK — The football bounced once off the Columbia logo at midfield before nestling into the arms of Dartmouth senior defensive back Sean Williams.Williams had recovered the Lions’ onside kick, the hosts’ last-ditch effort to potentially extend...

By ALEX CERVANTES

You have to go back almost 30 years, all the way to 1996, to find the last meeting between an undefeated Dartmouth squad and a one-loss Columbia team.That year, the Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago, the New York Yankees were in the...

By ALEX CERVANTES

HANOVER — Isaac Boston leapt twice and waved his hands wildly in the back of the end zone. The Springfield, Mass., native who called Hanover his home for the first four years of his collegiate career, made a concerted, flailing effort to capture the...

By ALEX CERVANTES

Days removed from overseeing the largest comeback in program history, Dartmouth College football coach Sammy McCorkle joked that he was delighted to be on the right side of history in last Saturday’s 44-43 overtime triumph over Yale.The second-year...

By ALEX CERVANTES

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — How did this even happen? Sophomore Grayson Saunier, a 6-foot-2-inch quarterback from Lafayette, La., joked that he had never played more than 10 snaps in a game for the Big Green. But on Saturday he engineered a miraculous 21-point...

By ALEX CERVANTES

Off to the program’s best start since the 2021 season, Dartmouth football coach Sammy McCorkle finds himself leaning on the “24-hour rule” early in the 2024 campaign.“Winning is hard,” McCorkle said. “Hey, you better enjoy it, but enjoy it quick. … We...

By ALEX CERVANTES

HANOVER — Propelled by a stingy second-half performance from its defense and a master class in clock management from its offense, the Dartmouth College football team christened Buddy Teevens Stadium at Memorial Field with a 20-17 victory over Penn on...

By ALEX CERVANTES

HANOVER — Dartmouth’s football stadium officially bears the name of the program’s all-time winningest coach.“Every person who comes here to a game, they’re going to walk by the sign, they’re going to see the words ‘Buddy Teevens Stadium’ and in those...

By ALEX CERVANTES

How do you honor the legacy of a man whose impact on the field, on the game at-large, on a school, on a community, is so profound and far reaching? That’s the question Dartmouth has been asking itself in the 365 days and counting since longtime coach...

By ALEX CERVANTES

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. — Paxton Scott couldn’t watch.The wide receiver sat next to offensive lineman Kyle Brown as sophomore kicker Owen Zalc lined up his eventual game-winning field goal kick, sealing Dartmouth’s 16-14 come-from-behind victory over...

By ALEX CERVANTES

Upon reviewing the film of Dartmouth’s 45-13 football rout of Fordham in the season opener at Memorial Field, Sammy McCorkle was pleased with two things: the effort his team gave and that they were assignment sound.Sure, the eight penalties for 60...