1982

22A Pond Court North Providence, RI 02904

First of all, let me congratulate Buddy Teevens and the Dartmouth Big Green football team. While I am writing this in October and this year's version of the Green Gridders has yet to find it's place in Dartmouth's illustrous history, they have already done something which had not been done since the class of '82 first graced the Hanover Plain.

Although the Big Green won a couple of Ivy titles during our tenure, they did fail consistently to do one thing... win a nonIvy game. I can recall one black Saturday in the freshmen section when one Buddy Teevens had the Big Green knocking on Boston University's door with a chance to win. Unfortunately, no matter how many versions of "As The Backs Go Tearing By" we sang, or how many cheerleaders we threw onto Red Rolfe Field, we could not score.

Well, after nine years we scored. No matter what the final record may be this season, Dartmouth's victory over Davidson marked the start of a new era in Dartmouth football—at least for me. Buddy's going to bring back a winner. Now I can finally leave the tailgate party and go back to watching the game.

How about those Twins. Congratulations to Todd Markman, Steve Faber, DennyRunck and the rest of the gang in the Great Lakes State. Now they know what things were like in Beantown last year. How about Twins-Bosox in next year's playoffs? Get your tickets now. Oh yeah, Congrats to the National League champion too. I forget who that was now.

As far as news is concerned, I assume that most of you were honoring the NFL players strike by not sending me any mail. Or maybe my mailman's on strike and will only deliver bills. Whatever, the news I did get my hands on is small in quantity but high in quality.

Congratulations are in order for BradBrown as he and the beautiful Jane Shanley Brown were married in September in Queens. The bride is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College in, ah . . . South Hadley, I think, and the couple would appear to be settling in the Boston area. Jeff Given may have found his calling. He was the best man. Kathy Knorring, Mrs. Jamie Knorring, winged eastward from San Fran to serve as matron of honor.

Hard to believe I'm three-quarters of the way through this column and I've only used one solid piece of news. If I can sneak in a couple of more jokes about women's schools, I might just make it. You really don't think I could be that chauvinistic, do you?

Well, it is December. Have the Celtics lost yet? Have the Lakers folded yet? Have the Knicks won yet? Has Max Headroom been cancelled yet?

As you're addressing those Christmas cards, don't forget to send one to your favorite scribe at the address above. A postmark may be the only piece of news I get.