The final week of Dartmouth field hockey’s disappointing season began Sunday with a 2-1 win at Holy Cross (6-13). This victory followed another Ivy League loss on Saturday at Harvard (8-8) by a score of 3-1. The Big Green heads into the season finale with a 6-10 record overall. More »
Victory is always sweeter when it’s against a bitter, hated rival. The Red Sox have the Yankees, USC has UCLA, Wile E. Coyote has the Roadrunner. But who is Dartmouth’s rival? There isn’t really a natural choice for the Big Green. Within the Ivy League, Cornell lacks geographic proximity, and I don’t think Dartmouth students really care about it either. Penn’s too far as well, and Columbia is too apathetic and urban. We want a rival that feels like a more comfortable fit. I don’t really have an opinion about Yale, and they seem to have their own faux-rivalry with Harvard anyway. Plus the Harvard-Yale “rivalry” seems to be more about academics except for the one time a year they pretend to care about football (note to both: we’re on to your scam). I wish Boston College could be Dartmouth’s rival (they don’t seem to have one either, since BU isn’t competitive with them in most sports), but they would pretty much destroy us in 80 percent of sports, if not more. More »
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