Upcoming Event: Football versus New Hampshire on September 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
1:00 PM

Football
vs New Hampshire
Co-Captain...A smart, versatile player who can snap the ball or line up at guard...Has grown into the role of a leader...Winner of the John Manley Award in 2005 as player who demonstrates the most improvement in the weight room...Will help anchor a veteran line...Will start for the third consecutive year.
2006: A major factor in Dartmouth’s sacks being cut by more than one-half from the year before...After surrendering 54 sacks in 2005, the Big Green allowed 24 sacks in Dowdakin’s junior year...Rushing yardage jumped from 40.0 yards per game two years ago to 1,033 (103.3) last fall.
2005: Started all nine games in which he played, missing only Yale...Filled in at center when injuries struck. 2004: Saw first varsity action in the game against UNH.
High School: Three-year letterwinner in football...First lineman to letter three times at Boylan...Made all-conference first team and academic all-state...Won four letters in track and two in swimming...Captained football and track...Threw shot in track and swam freestyle...All-conference first team as a swimmer...Illinois State Scholar and nominee for Wendy’s High School Heisman.
Personal: Brother Jonathan Dowdakin played rugby at Northern Michigan...Was a state runner-up in swimming at age 10...Spent a winter term in New Zealand studying at the University of Otago in the South Island.
Favorite Movie: 300
Favorite Book: Bleachers
Favorite Actor: Edward Norton
Favorite Musical Group/Act: Kenny Chesney
Favorite Vacation Spot: Las Vegas
Favorite Professor at Dartmouth: Gary Lenhart
Favorite Course At Dartmouth: Ancient Greek Athletics
Favorite Quote: Jack Tatum, Oakland Raiders: “I'd like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.”
Superstition: Puts uniform on in the same order every game with eye black always going on last.