Dartmouth maintains low profile
By Roger Brown
nhfootballreport.com
Dartmouth didn't receive much respect in this year's Ivy League media poll, which was released Monday.
Dartmouth was picked to finish eighth in the eight-team league. The Big Green, which ended the 2006 season with a 2-5 league record (2-8 overall), received 28 points.
"The only poll that matters to us is the one at the end of the season," Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens said in a release issued by the school. "Our players will read this, and from a league standpoint, that's how the media views Dartmouth football. As a group, Dartmouth football needs to address this. We'll present this to our players and they are intelligent young men. It will provide more inspiration and motivation."
Yale was picked first in the poll. The Bulldogs, who shared the league title with Princeton last season, received 14 of 16 first-place votes and 125 points.
Yale returns 17 starters, including former Phillips Exeter Academy quarterback Matt Polhemus.
Dartmouth will open the regular season Sept. 15 with a non-league game against Colgate.
Teevens has a 30-38-2 overall record (24-24-2 in the Ivy League) during his seven seasons as Dartmouth's head coach.
"The attitude, preparation and work eithic have been tremendous," Teevens said. "We're focused solely on what we do and how we do it. The media and the pollsters don't see my guys and they don't see what we are doing."
Ivy League media poll
(first-place votes in parenthesis)
1. Yale (14) 125 points
2. Penn (1) 102 points
3. Harvard (1) 95 points
4. Princeton 87 points
5. Cornell 62 points
6. Columbia 44 points
7. Brown 33 points
8 Dartmouth 28 points
