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Football Notebook: Dante's an Inferno for Dartmouth Offense

So who deserves to run? Without a doubt, Palazzo and Leiszler have earned their spots in the starting lineup.

Running Men, Part 2

This weekend was Dartmouth's homecoming. Not surprisingly, a few students decided to show off their Big Green spirit by disrupting the football game. Or maybe they were just bored and disgusted by their team's 35-0 halftime deficit.

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The first incident occurred in the first half, during a kickoff. A Dartmouth student in a "Dartmouth '04" sweatshirt (though sources indicate he may have been an '01) weaved in and out of the Harvard kickoff team, then through the Dartmouth return team. As the crowd looked on, he sprinted past police and security before finally being taken down several minutes later.

Right before the third quarter was set to begin, a student in a "Scream" mask rushed onto the field, starved for attention. He ran around a while before an end zone cop approached him and motioned for him to leave. After stopping and listening to the police for a brief moment, the man sprinted off again, clearing a small fence before trying to scale a tree. He then promptly fell down and was descended upon by police.

Apparently rushing the field is a Dartmouth homecoming tradition. Of course, so is losing to Harvard. Here's to those two brave souls, who risked probation and suspension to make a larger point to the Dartmouth administration: next time you invite all your alumni to attend a football game, don't invite the team that has beat you by 42 points twice in a row.

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