Dalyn Williams Named a Finalist for the Bushnell Cup

HANOVER, N.H. — The Ivy League announced the finalists for the Bushnell Cup, given to the league's top offensive and defensive players in football, and Dartmouth quarterback Dalyn Williams was named as one of the two finalists for the offensive award.

Williams, chosen as the first-team All-Ivy League quarterback, is joined by Yale running back Tyler Varga as the finalists on offense, while Harvard defensive end Zack Hodges and Princeton linebacker Mike Zeuli will vie for the defensive honor. The quartet will travel to New York City for the Asa S. Bushnell Cup presentation, presented by the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, at a special reception and press conference in the Vanderbilt Room of the famed Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City on Monday, Dec. 8 at 12:30 p.m. as part of the festivities surrounding the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame Annual Awards Dinner. The presentation will be shown live and free of charge on The Ivy League Digital Network (ILDN).

Guiding the offense to 31.3 points per game and Dartmouth's best record (8-2, 6-1 Ivy) in 17 years, Williams led the Ivy League in completion percentage (.675) — the highest in school history — and passing efficiency (157.57) while throwing for 2,119 yards and 21 touchdowns with just three interceptions, the best ratio in Big Green history. Three times the 6-0, 210-pound native of Corinth, Texas, topped 300 yards in a game, including a career-best 388 in a 38-31 come-from-behind victory at Yale. The junior also threw for 381 in a 42-7 win at Cornell and 305 while completing 30-of-35 throws in the final game of the year at Princeton, a 41-10 triumph.

Williams led the Ancient Eight quarterbacks with 444 yards rushing plus ran for six scores, and his average of 49.3 yards per game ranked seventh in the league overall. The three-time Ivy Offensive Player of the Week set a Dartmouth record with 443 total yards in a 42-7 triumph at Cornell and currently ranks third in both career passing yards (4,866) and total yards (6,135) in the Big Green annals.

From 1970 to 2010, the Bushnell Cup recognized an Ivy League Player of the Year (or co-Players of the Year if there was a tie in voting). Beginning with the 2010 season, the award was presented as a part of the festivities surrounding the National Football Foundation Annual Awards Dinner with four finalists named a week prior to the presentation. Beginning with the 2011 season, the award began recognizing Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, honoring each as a recipient of the Bushnell Cup.

The last Dartmouth finalist for the Bushnell Cup was running back Nick Schwieger in 2011, the first year that the award was divided to honor an offensive and defensive player. Schwieger is also the last Big Green recipient of the award, having shared the Bushnell Cup with Harvard's Gino Gordon in 2010. Dartmouth has had six players earn the honor: Jim Chasey (QB, 1970), Buddy Teevens (QB, 1978), Shon Page (RB, 1990), Al Rosier (RB, 1991), Jay Fiedler (QB, 1992) and Schwieger.

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