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    Champions! Big Green goes back-to-back after dominant 56-28 win over Brown

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    HANOVER, NH– Quarterback Jackson Proctor found Chris Corbo for a 20-yard touchdown with just three seconds left in the second quarter, giving the Dartmouth football team a 21-14 lead, and the Big Green wouldn’t look back, defeating Brown 56-28 on Saturday afternoon. With that win and Harvard’s loss to Yale, Dartmouth earned a share of the Ivy League Championship for the second year in a row and the fourth time in the past five seasons, raising the Ivy’s all-time leading total to 22. Day, Proctor finished the day with seven touchdowns to tie a program record, four passing and three rushing.

    Proctor was 18 of 26 through the air for a career-high 308 yards and four touchdowns. On the ground, he had 13 carries for 171 yards, giving him an incredible 479 yards of offense – a program record and 13th in Ivy League history.

    “We relied on it all week and we had a good game plan going into the game,” Proctor said. “The O-line did a great job, the receivers caught the ball, the running backs did a great job. We couldn’t have done it without these guys.”

    Proctor’s seven touchdowns tied the Dartmouth football record of seven scores, originally set by Fred Jennings in 1898.

    Grayson O’Bara enjoyed a career day with four catches for 124 yards and two scores. Daniel Haughton had a team-high five catches for 62 yards. Defensive, Danny Cronin led the way with nine tackles, with Micah Green add seven. Jordan Washington returned an interception for a touchdown while Jamal Kuiper also had a choice.

    “Delighted,” said Sammy McCorkleRobert L. Blackman Head Football Coach. “I can’t say enough about how proud I am of this football team, our players, our coaches, our entire support staff, the administration, across the board. It took everyone to put us in this situation to have the chance to finish the road. That’s what we did this season. Like I said to the players, it’s hard to find the words to say how proud you are of a group of guys who have just fought every week.

    “They’ve done everything we’ve asked of them. Since the end of last season we’ve said, if you’re ready to raise the bar, we’ve got to raise it, but you better be prepared to do what Not once have they questioned anything, not once have they not given every ounce of energy to try to raise the bar.”

    The Big Green finished the season at 8-2 and 5-2 in the Ivy League, finishing tied for first place with Harvard and Columbia. Yale defeated the Crimson 34-29 at Harvard on Saturday.

    “(The championship) means the world to us,” defensive lineman said Ejike Adele. “Obviously we never want a draw. We always want to finish 10-0. The way this team did it was unbelievable. All the things we’ve been through, especially us as a class, over the last few years and before. to get out of this to culminate, we are so happy that it ended this way.”

    Dartmouth took care of business early on Saturday, with Proctor finding O’Bara from 13 yards out on the game’s first drive. That capped a seven-play, 73-yard drive. The defense took over for the rest of the quarter until Proctor found him Painter Richards-Baker from 35 yards out early in the second quarter.

    A high gambler midway through the second quarter Davis Golicks head led to Brown getting the ball at the Dartmouth 9-yard line. The Bears capitalized with a 2-yard Jake Wilcox run. Brown continued to tie the game with 55 seconds left in the stanza, capping a six-play, 61-yard drive with a Ty Holtz 1-yard touchdown run, making the score 14 apiece.

    The Big Green had a big response to get the momentum back just before halftime, driving 75 yards on six plays. Proctor connected with O’Bara for 30 yards to reach the Bears’ 20-yard line. Two plays later, Proctor found Corbo from 20 yards out, giving Corbo his seventh touchdown of the season and Dartmouth a 21-14 halftime lead.

    The momentum continued to roll in the third quarter, with Dartmouth needing just three plays to reach 75 yards. On 3rd and 7, Proctor found O’Bara for 72 yards and a 28-14 Big Green lead in less than a minute.

    The Bears’ next drive had eight plays, but ended with a pick-six, courtesy of Jordan Washingtonwhich returned it 58 yards to the end zone and a 35-14 Big Green advantage.

    That score held until the teams traded touchdowns over the final 2:55 of the third, with Brown scoring at 2:55 and 0:44, while the Big Green added one at 2:32. Dartmouth’s came on a 75-yard touchdown run from Proctor, his second touchdown run of more than 75 yards against Brown in as many years (last year was a 78-yarder).

    The Big Green erased all doubt by outscoring Brown 14-0 in the fourth quarter, both on Proctor touchdown scampers, for a 56-28 final.

    Before the game, Dartmouth had a 552-427 edge in total yards, including 244-66 rushing. Brown had a 361-308 advantage in the air.

    “Things weren’t perfect all season; there were a few times we could have packed it in, could have given up,” McCorkle said. “But you’ve heard it from some of these guys: We’re built differently. The difficult times we have had to go through in recent years have put us in a situation where we know we have to help each other.

    “You can see how we played today; we took care of each other,” McCorkle continued. “To be able to finish the way we did today, I didn’t want to think about it all week. It was difficult. I didn’t want to talk about it, but you clearly have it in the back of your mind. Glad it happened the way it did.”

    Notes: Proctor’s seven total touchdowns are tied for the most in program history with Fred Jennings in 1898 against Amherst (a 64-6 win at Dartmouth)…His 479 yards are tops for the Big Green, tied for 13th in the history of the Ivy League. It was just four meters away from the top 10, with an Ivy record of 538… With its 64 meters on Saturday, Q Jones finished his Dartmouth career with 1,728 rushing yards, which is good for eighth most in program history… McCorkle is the third coach to win an Ivy League title in each of his first two seasons, the others being Penn’s Ray Priore (2015 and 2016) and Dartmouth’s own Jake Crouthamel (1971, 1972 and 1973) … Corbo’s seven touchdown receptions on the season are the most by a Big Green player since Drew Estrada had eight in 2019… O’Bara became the third Dartmouth player to eclipse 100 receiving yards this season (along with Paxton Scott and Haughton) … As a team, the Big Green’s 56 points were their most since scoring 59 in a 59-24 win over Columbia on October 25, 2019.

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