<p>Both the Men’s and Women’s soccer teams have home games against Yale on Saturday. ��</p>
<p>I hear the fall colors will be peaking within the next week. On another note, I was confused by the Woman’s BB article on the new First year player Daisy Jordan, wearing #23, whose father’s name is Michael.</p>
<p>I plan to be in Hanover over Homecoming Weekend, which is Oct. 26-28. I hope to attend the Harvard/Dartmouth football game that Saturday. How hard will it be to get tickets to that game? After watching on TV the Penn/Dartmouth game played in Hanover last Saturday and seeing how few people were in attendance, tickets should be plentiful for any Dartmouth football game these days, it seems to me. Still, it is Homecoming, and it is Harvard.</p>
<p>Toombs61 Buy tickets here: [Football</a> Ticket Information - DartmouthSports.comOfficial Web Site of Dartmouth Varsity Athletics](<a href=“http://www.dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=205158465]Football”>http://www.dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&ATCLID=205158465)</p>
<p>Very good. Thanks, MPI. I hope you can make Homecoming too.</p>
<p>One day I hope to. This year I will just send green ti leaves for the student section. Stop by and pick up some from my kids. Go Big Green!</p>
<p>toombs61, click on the “recent photos” link in “school resources” above this thread to see the ti leaves in action at homecoming 2010.</p>
<p>Ti leaves: great gift to the kids and the game. Well done, MPI.</p>
<p>coureur, if you want to watch some “real” football, the women’s rugby team will be playing yale at noon on saturday. ;-)</p>
<p>I didn’t see any rugby but still had a great visit. The weather was mild - with just some occasional rain on Saturday. The orchestra played great. The autumn colors were supposed to be at their peak but mostly weren’t yet. I suppose because it was Columbus Day weekend (a holiday in some states), the admissions tours were in in full swing. On Saturday you couldn’t throw a tennis ball across the Green without hitting three different tour groups.</p>
<p>I too had a great visit last weekend, but unfortunately it did rain the entire time. D’s ceremony was beautiful in Rollins Chapel. Since this was my first official visit to Dartmouth, I had to walk around town and into every shop, several times. Had good meals at Salt Hill pub, Molly’s and the Canoe Club and I’m already planning my next trip during the winter months to see Hanover with snow. I must admit I am astounded I didn’t hit a cyclist or run over a pedestrian while there! I think D’s highlight of the visit was making a huge grocery store run to somewhere other than the co-op and their high prices.</p>
<p>Unfortunately we had a few “issues” with our hotel in WRJ. We didn’t get housekeeping service the first night, and had to insist on it the 2nd night when we came back late afternoon and it still wasn’t done. They claim there was a DND in the computer for our room which was not requested by us. Then there was the comment to me by one of the desk clerks about another desk clerk where she told me that they refer to him as “our dirty little Mexican.” I’d give anything if I could have seen my own face when she said that to me. The highlight of the stay however was that a couple in their 40’s got thrown out of the hotel because they decided to do something that was on their bucket list on a couch in the library just adjacent to the breakfast area. No problem the hotel says, they made sure they steam cleaned the couch! YUCK!!!</p>
<p>Thank you AboutTheSame for your excellent driving directions, but I am considering taking the coach into Hanover from now on and just renting a car there.</p>
<p>^^ After that drive north on Friday (60 miles of stop & go?), wife & I are thinking the same. The women beat Yale 34-10, coureur. You can catch the not-impartial game report here: [Dartmouth</a> College Womens Rugby Collegiate Rugby, Dartmouth Women’s Rugby - Women’s Division 1 Collegiate Rugby Hanover, NH News](<a href=“Dartmouth Women's Rugby”>Dartmouth College Womens Rugby Collegiate Rugby, Dartmouth Women's Rugby - Women's Division 1 Collegiate Rugby Hanover, NH News) Think the writer liked the referee? It was a really nice weekend.</p>
<p>ATS, sounds like you have a D on the Dartmouth rugby team. Great. My S, who is a freshman, is trying to learn the game this fall. (He is stumbling around on the pitch playing some B and C side games right now.) </p>
<p>The Dartmouth rugby program appears first rate, with a wonderful field house and top shelf teams. As I’m sure you know, the men’s 7’s won the Nationals the past two years and, I understand, the First XV’s haven’t lost an Ivy League match the last three or so years, although they tied Brown 23-23 a couple of weeks ago. I have to think that the women’s teams are first rate too. </p>
<p>Go, Green.</p>
<p>^^ Guilty as charged. PM if you ever have a rules question. After four years, I think I’m beginning to understand the game. 
It’s a game best watched in person (IMO) since there’s so much going on all over the field – and watching from the balcony at the Corey Ford Clubhouse is a real treat! Best of luck to your son. (Oh, and they’re very, very good and very, very cautious about concussions and making sure the player is back to normal on the impact test before he or she is allowed to play again.)</p>
<p>ATS, thanks for the invite to discuss rugby rules. After I played four years of college football during the last Ice Age or so, I picked up rugby and played it, off and on, for almost 20 years. That said, I still don’t know the rules (or, as ruggers call them, the “laws”). I’m sure that Dartmouth is doing a first rate job teaching its rugby players the rules/laws. DC is, as we know, the No. 1 school in the country for undergraduate instruction!</p>
<p>Ha, I may have to call you. I had a really hard time understanding the offside calls by the referee last Saturday – not to mention the lack of calls on forward passes and knock-ons, but we’ll not go there. Wish I could be in Boston on Saturday. Any rugby fans out there, go cheer on the DWRC against Harvard. This is a big, big game for their season.</p>
<p>Who’s going to Homecoming this weekend?</p>
<p>My S, a '12, is planning to go. Back in the US for 2+ weeks.</p>
<p>I just Fedexed 100 Hawaiian Ti Leaves for the game. Hopefully the Dartmouth Hawaii kids will be there to pass them out. Go Big Green.</p>
<p>My wife and I are going to Homecoming. I hope that there will be in Hanover this weekend other Dartmouth parents who post in CC from time to time. Mag PI, thanks for the Ti leaves!</p>