Dartmouth Big Green

The Dartmouth Big Green are the athletic teams of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Dartmouth has won one national football championship, in 1925, although it took them some time to catch up to the football talent of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, their Ivy League counterparts. During the early years and up until the 1970's, Dartmouth's teams were known as the "Indians", an allusion to Dartmouth's origins as a school for the education of Native Americans. Modern political sensibilites deemed the Indian mascot insensitive, and it was eventually dropped in favor of the "Big Green" moniker. In 1854, the Ivy League was born. Brown scored the first Ivy League football victory against Rutgers, Yale scored the first basketball victory...