More than 430 players, alumni, and friends attended the banquet honoring the undefeated 1970 football team on January 23 at Alumni Hall. In addition to a number of honors presented to the team, here is a rundown of the top individual awards:
Quarterback Jim Chasey was named co-winner of the first Asa Bushnell Award (presented to the outstanding Ivy League player; he shared it with Cornell halfback Ed Marinaro) and also recipient of the Harry Agganis Award as the outstanding senior player in New England.
The Bob Blackman Trophy was presented to halfback John Short, the Ivy League scoring champion who set a Dartmouth season rushing record.
Defensive end Giff Foley won the Manners Makyth Man Award and also won the Earl Hamilton Senior Award.
Pat Stone, a linebacker and the 1970 freshman captain, won the Earl Hamilton Freshman Award.
In the aftermath of the 1970 season, 22 members of Dartmouth's football team gained some degree of All-America, All-East, Ail-Ivy, or All-New England acclaim.
Co-Captain Murry Bowden was named to the Football Coaches and Walter Camp All-American first teams and also played in the American Bowl Game at Tampa, Fla. He made everyone's All-East and All-Ivy teams.
Willie Bogan, who has been named a Rhodes Scholar, also was All-East and All-Ivy and played in both the American Bowl Game and in the North-South Shrine Game at Miami, Fla. Bogan, honored by the National Football Foundation as a scholar-athlete in December, also has been named a recipient of an NCAA postgraduate scholarship. He is the ninth Dartmouth student-athlete so honored by the NCAA.
Defensive tackle Barry Brink, another All-East and All-Ivy selection, played in both the East-West Shrine Game at Oakland, Calif., and in the Hula Bowl Game in Honolulu.