Rowing develops into a Daly obsession
By Austin Whitman | July 17, 1997Daly surpasses track and height disadvantage to row Green into national prominence
Daly surpasses track and height disadvantage to row Green into national prominence
Few collegiate athletes can truly say they have been coached by a legend. Yale's football team can. Head coach of Yale Football Carmen Cozza knows his game.
What do you get when you try to fit 5,000 Dartmouth students, faculty and community members into a single, 3,500-square-foot room?
Neither of the Big Green track squads had its strongest showing this past weekend at New England championships, mostly because athletes from both squads sat the meet out. Fellow Ivy-Leaguer Brown won the men's meet held at Williams.
The men's and women's Big Green track squads ran to a pair of third place finishes this past weekend at the two-day Heptagonal Outdoor Track and Field Championships, hosted this year by Yale University. All the Ivy League schools as well as Navy compete in Heps.
With both the University of Pennsylvania Relays and the Dartmouth Invitational taking place during the same weekend, members of the two track teams headed off for the weekend's competition in different directions. Penn Relays Twenty tracksters traveled to the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field last Thursday for the famous Penn Relays.
The men's and women's track teams competed separately last weekend, the men at an invitational hosted by Northeastern and the women at the University of Massachusetts. Men's team: UMass barely edged out the Big Green men at Northeastern for a first-place finish with 64 points.
The weekend's competition proved tough for the men and women of the Dartmouth track team. The women's track team fell Saturday to the University of Vermont and the University of New Hampshire, while the men fell to UVM. Vermont won the women's meet with 74 points.
Former Dartmouth soccer coach Bobby Clark was recently recognized for his remarkable career by the New Hampshire Soccer Association which will induct him into the New Hampshire Soccer Hall of Fame April 28. Clark has followed his love for the sport of soccer around the world all his life, leaving a trail of admirers from Scotland to Zimbabwe to America to New Zealand and back. The honor came at the same time that Clark was named Director of Soccer at Stanford University.
In cold and wet conditions at Harvard last weekend, the men's and women's track teams ran to a second place finish against Harvard and Brown. Brown won the meet for both the men and the women.