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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 3607734, member: 6911"] Good points. But Dartmouth does compete effectively in a number of minor sports. Women's lacrosse, rowing, sailing, skiing, women's basketball. It does have a top of the heap football team, and it took the lead in innovations to spare head traumas, including eliminating full-on contact in practice. At least, FWIW. You make a good point about "money." They don't have near the per-student endowment of Princeton, Yale, or Harvard. So money does play a role in landing the best athletes, at least relative to Ivy competition. But if this is about money, then at what point does the entire Ivy League become unviable? How many more league members will follow with cuts in sports? How many can remain with the full panoply of teams and still have the league called a league? Dartmouth is also one of the smaller Ivys, with just over 4,000 students. So fielding an entire athletic program meant that recruited athletes exceeded a quarter of the entire student body, a larger percentage than Yale or Harvard or Penn. [/QUOTE]