Twelve Big Green Included on Phil Steele Preseason All-Ivy Teams

Jack Traynor was named the Preseason Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year.

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Twelve Big Green Included on Phil Steele Preseason All-Ivy Teams

8/9/2019 10:54:00 AM | Football

Jack Traynor also listed as the Preseason Defensive Player of the Year

By: Rick Bender

HANOVER, N.H. — No fewer than 12 Dartmouth football players were listed on Phil Steele's Preseason All-Ivy League Teams, including fifth-year senior linebacker Jack Traynor who was anointed the league's Preseason Defensive Player of the Year.

The football publication also announced its Preseason All-Americans with senior cornerback Isiah Swann the lone Ivy Leaguer named to the first team.

Traynor is a two-time Division I All-New England selection, two-time unanimous All-Ivy League First Team performer and two-time FCS ADA Academic All-Star. The 6-0, 235-pound native of Lake Forest, Illinois, has career totals of 195 tackles, 11.5 for a loss, one sack, one interception, 8 pass breakups, 2 forced fumbles and a fumble recovery.

Swann, a 6-0, 190-pound native of Queen Creek, Arizona, was a consensus All-American a year ago after leading all of Division I with a school-record nine interceptions while also breaking up nine other passes. He enters his senior year at Dartmouth tied for the program's career record of 13 pickoffs to go with 21 PBU, 110 tackles, two for a loss with one sack, a forced fumble, fumble recovery and even a blocked kick.

Joining Swann and Traynor on the All-Ivy League First Team was junior QB Derek Kyler, who was second in the FCS last year in completion percentage and third in passing efficiency, and senior long snapper Grant Jaffe. Big Green players on the second team included were four seniors — WR Hunter Hagdorn, TE Connor Rempel, DE Niko Lalos and S Ryan Roegge — as well as fifth-year senior DL David Chalmers.

Chosen for the third team were fifth-year OL Zach Sammartino, senior LB Nigel Alexander and sophomore PK Connor Davis.

Yesterday, Dartmouth was picked to finish the 2019 season in second place as it did a year ago with a 6-1 league record and 9-1 mark overall to finish the campaign ranked 15th by the FCS coaches and 18th by STATS. The Big Green will open their season on Sept. 21 at Jacksonville with kickoff slated for 1 p.m.