Dartmouth Football Receives Slew of Honors from Phil Steele

HANOVER, N.H. — Phil Steele announced its FCS award winners, including All-America, Freshman All-America and All-Ivy League, and Dartmouth came away with numerous honors, including long snapper Josh Greene as a Fourth Team All-American and the Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Year. Place kicker Owen Zalc was also named to the Freshman All-America First Team as well as the Special Teams Freshman of the Year, and those two were among the 19 selections (tied for most in the conference) on the organization's four All-Ivy League Teams.

Now a two-time Phil Steele All-Ivy League First Team long snapper, Greene has been a mainstay on special teams over the past three seasons, performing his craft consistently and flawlessly. The 5-11, 225-pound fifth-year senior's accuracy played a large role in Zalc setting the school record for field goals in a season (17) and the Big Green punter setting a career high in average distance. A native of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Greene was also named to the 2023 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team for his charitable works.

Zalc, a 5-10, 160-pound first-year place kicker from Cary, North Carolina, broke Dartmouth and Ivy League records in his first season in Hanover. He not only set a new standard for field goals in a season by a Big Green kicker, converting 17 in 21 attempts, but he also broke the Ivy record for field goals in league play (14). Three times he booted three field goals in a game, and his 1.7 field goals per game are the third most in the FCS while his 81.0 percent accuracy ranks 17th nationally. Combined with his 25-of-26 PAT conversions, Zalc led the Ivy League with 76 points, setting the program's scoring record for a freshman in the process, and his 7.6 points per game ranks 23rd nationally.

Joining Greene and Zalc on the first team was defensive lineman Charles Looes, a Bushnell Cup finalist and a Division I All-New England selection as well. The Ivy League leader with 7.5 sacks for the Big Green this year, Looes racked up four of those sacks against Princeton to tie a Dartmouth single-game record. The 6-3, 275-pound fifth-year senior from Hillsdale, New Jersey, had a total of 43 tackles, 9.5 going for a loss, and 7.5 sacks while hurrying the quarterback five times. In addition, he batted down three passes at the line, forced two fumbles and recovered one, plus blocked a field goal attempt in the two-point victory over the Tigers.

A total of 10 second-team honors went to Dartmouth, led by sophomore Sean Williams who was listed three times — defensive back, punt returner and all-purpose, not to mention a fourth honor he received as the third-team kick returner. The 5-9, 190-pound native of Nolensville, Tennessee, was second in the league in interceptions (4), punt return average (10.9 yards) and kick return average (24.4 yards), and one of his pickoffs was returned for a touchdown in the win over Princeton.

Others to make the second team were junior running back Q Jones, senior wide receiver Paxton Scott, offensive linemen Delby Lemieux (sophomore) and Nicholas Schwitzgebel (senior), junior defensive lineman Josiah Green, and linebackers Macklin Ayers (senior) and Marques White (fifth-year).

The Big Green had three players make the third team as well as the fourth team, with defensive backs Jordan Washington (sophomore) and Leonard St. Gourdin (senior) making the grade with Williams on the third team. The three on the fourth team were running back Tevita Moimoi, senior offensive lineman Kyle Brown and senior linebacker Danny Cronin.

The Offensive Player of the Year award went to Yale quarterback Nolan Grooms, and Penn defensive lineman Joey Slackman was chosen as the Defensive Player of the Year. Yale also had the Offensive Lineman of the Year in Kiran Amegadjie, while Penn running back Malachi Hosley received the Freshman of the Year with Greene rounding out the big award winners.

Notes: Harvard also had 19 players receive All-Ivy recognition … the other team that shared the title with the Big Green and the Crimson, Yale, had the most first-team selections with eight … Greene was just one of three Ivy leaguers to earn All-America recognition with Slackman making the third team and Harvard defensive lineman Thor Griffith the fourth team.

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