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...game en route to a possible back-to-back Ivy League Championship, Dartmouth will try to seek its first taste of victory this season. Unless the Big Green increases overall offensive production and stiffens up on defense, it likely will extend the third longest losing streak in Division I-AA to nine games. “So far, as well as can be expected, obviously, we’re frustrated and expectations have not been met, but also realistic in that we’re playing a lot of young players,” Teevens said...
...post in 1984 as the organization’s first full-time director. The context then was one of turmoil. The Ivy League had just walked away from Division I-A football during the split into two divisions, choosing instead to remain in the newly formed Division I-AA, where the eight schools in the conference had been relegated after the 1981 season...
...Part of that controversial move was the decision to also abstain from the Division I-AA playoffs, a move that Orleans became well-known for defending. The argument voiced by the Ivy League’s presidents, then and now, is that football is just different from other sports, and that the pursuit of gridiron glory would encourage Ivy schools to cut academic corners in pursuit of highly skilled athletes...
...made powerhouse programs like Alabama, Notre Dame, and Michigan less able to stockpile talented players, as they had in the past. The resulting trickle-down effect of talent has meant that upsets are more likely within Division I-A, as well as in matchups between Division I-A and I-AA squads (the most famous example being Appalachian State’s stunning upset of Michigan last season). These changes in college football’s talent distribution seem to have helped academically strong schools at that level...
...that just scoffed at me, I’m not talking about the Ivy League that plays in Division I-AA football—a division in which a team beats one of the top squads in the country only once every blue moon, in which an Ancient Eight team hasn’t won the national championship since the first half of the 20th century...