Dartmouth College finalized an agreement with the New England Sports Network (NESN) on Monday that will allow two Big Green football games to be televised on the station this year. NESN will show Dartmouth's Oct. 11 game against Yale, and its Nov. 1 contest against Harvard. Both games will be played in Hanover and are scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m.

Six of Dartmouth's 10 games will be televised by regional or national networks this season. In addition to the two NESN telecasts, the season opener against Colgate will be shown on Time Warner Sports at 1 p.m.; the home opener against the University of New Hampshire will be televised by WMUR-TV (Ch. 9) at noon; the contest at Penn can be seen on CN8 at noon; and Dartmouth's game at Columbia will be shown on Versus at 4 p.m.

"I'm very excited about the increased television exposure not just for our football program, but for the college itself," Dartmouth athletic director Josie Harper said. "Dartmouth College's ability to offer one of the best undergraduate experiences in the country, coupled with the experience and participation in a first-class football program that has a celebrated history and a very bright future, is a combination that is very hard to beat."

Since the first television coverage of a Dartmouth football game in 1953, Dartmouth has had 62 games televised, but never more than four in a season (1998 and 1999). This is the 15th consecutive year the Big Green has had at least one game on television. Fifteen Dartmouth games have  been on television since the 2000 season, including three last year.