Dartmouth Football Featured on YES Network This Fall

Dartmouth Football Featured on YES Network This Fall

July 18, 2005

The Ivy League and the YES Network (www.yesnetwork.com) today announced the schedule of five Ivy football games that will air on YES for the 2005 season. This fall marks the fourth straight season of Ivy football on YES.

The YES Network is available to viewers in New York, Connecticut, and large parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and also is available nationally on DIRECTV (channel 622).

All five telecasts are scheduled to start at noon ET (subject to change), beginning Saturday, Oct. 22 as Dartmouth welcomes Columbia to Memorial Field in Hanover, N.H. Dartmouth is excited about the return of Coach Buddy Teevens, who was the Ivy Player of the Year at Dartmouth in 1978 and coached the Big Green to back-to-back Ivy titles in 1990 and 1991. Teevens coached Tulane and Stanford before returning to his alma mater in December. This game will be a battle of Ivy Leaguers as coaches as well: Columbia's Bob Shoop, in his third season, is a Yale graduate.

Under first-year coach Jim Knowles, the Cornell Big Red surprised many people last year, going 4-3 in Ivy play and playing tough against Harvard and Penn, the League's top two teams as of late. The Big Red will appear on the YES package on Saturday, Oct. 29 at Princeton. The Tigers lost a heartbreaker to Cornell last fall when a game-tying extra point was blocked in the final minutes.

On Saturday, Nov. 5, Ivy fans will get a chance to see Brown senior Nick Hartigan run ... again and again. Hartigan, who was both an All-American and Academic All-American in 2004, carried the ball an average of 32 times a game and could find himself on the Walter Payton Award watch list as a senior. In the last two years he has rushed for more than 2,600 yards and 32 touchdowns. Coach Jack Siedlecki's Yale defense will be up for the challenge that day as YES will show the game from the Yale Bowl. The last time these two hooked up in New Haven, they combined for 99 points in a 55-44 Bear victory.

On Saturday, Nov. 12, all eyes will be on Cambridge, Mass., where Penn will face off with Harvard in a game that will stand out nationally. Either Harvard or Penn has been crowned as Ivy champ in each of the last five seasons. The Crimson will rely on first-team All-America running back and Walter Payton Award candidate Clifton Dawson, while Al Bagnoli's Quaker defense has been a hallmark of Penn's success.

With all eight schools represented on these four telecasts, the fifth game will be chosen late in the season to show a contest with Ivy-title implications. On the final Saturday, Nov. 19, the YES broadcast will come from either Philadelphia, Pa. (Cornell at Penn); New York City (Brown at Columbia) or Hanover, N.H. (Princeton at Dartmouth).

"Our campuses, alumni and fans are very appreciative of the continued commitment made by the YES Network," said Ivy League Executive Director Jeff Orleans. "As we've done with our earlier YES football and basketball telecasts, we look forward to highlighting the comprehensive Ivy League athletics story and the athletic, academic and community accomplishments of the Ivy students who compete across our 33 sports."

The YES Network is the most-watched regional sports network in the United States and in New York, featuring the 26-time World Champion New York Yankees, and the 2002 and 2003 Eastern Conference Champion New Jersey Nets. YES, which has earned 60 Emmy Award nominations and 14 Emmy Awards in just four years, also televises other professional and college sports, as well as original biography, interview and magazine programs, and live simulcasts of Sports Radio 66 WFAN's Mike and the Mad Dog Show .

2005 Ivy YES Schedule
Oct. 22 -- Columbia at Dartmouth, Noon
Oct. 29 -- Cornell at Princeton, Noon
Nov. 5 -- Brown at Yale, Noon
Nov. 12 -- Penn at Harvard, Noon
Nov. 19 -- Game to be determined, Noon

Schedules