Big Green greats Nick Schwieger ’12, Bronson Green ’14 and Bo Patterson ’15 break down the game
By: Rick Bender
HANOVER, N.H. — The Woods Watch Party returns for its ninth and penultimate week with the re-airing of the Dartmouth football game against Cornell at Memorial Field in 2011. This is the oldest game to be featured during this series and will be streamed on the Dartmouth Football YouTube channel on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 1:30 p.m., sponsored by Courtyard by Marriott and Residence Inn.
Fitting that the watch party would feature a contest against Cornell as the Big Red were the team Dartmouth was scheduled to play this Saturday. The Big Green entered that 2011 showdown with a 2-5 record, but three of those losses were by no more than one score.
Joining host Tyler Murray to talk about the game will be a trio of athletes that competed in that game — running back Nick Schwieger '12, linebacker Bronson Green '14 and wide receiver Bo Patterson '15. Schwieger, a New England native out of Norton, Massachusetts, was the co-winner of the Bushnell Cup the previous year as a junior and was on his way to earning All-America honors after the 2011 campaign. He finished his career as Dartmouth's all-time leading rusher with 3,150 yards, topping 1,000 in each of his final two seasons, while scoring 26 touchdowns on the ground. This game against Cornell ended up being the crown jewel of his career as well.
Hailing from Los Angeles, California, Green was in his first full season as a starter and finished his sophomore year second on the team with a career-best 82 tackles while also intercepting a pair of passes. He went on to make 245 stops while playing in 37 of the 40 games over his four years, served as a captain in his last two seasons and earned All-Ivy honors three times, making the second team as a junior and garnering honorable mention as a sophomore and senior.
Patterson, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, led the Big Green in receiving yards in 2011 as a rookie with 301 on 24 catches, two going for a touchdown. An injury slowed him the following year, but he surpassed those statistical totals in both of his final two seasons to finish his Dartmouth career with 85 catches for 1,283 yards — both figures which rank among the program's top 20 — while snaring 15 scoring strikes, tied for fifth most all-time for the Big Green.
For the complete schedule of The Woods Watch Party this fall, check the Big Green football schedule for games that will be or have been streamed with commentary from participants from those events. Links for each game on the Dartmouth Football YouTube channel will be available well in advance of the scheduled broadcast.