Gold Helmet Award Stays In Hanover This Week

Courtesy: Mark Washburn
Dalyn Williams

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The New England Football Writers’ Association office unveiled its weekly Gold Helmet Award winners at a luncheon today, and Dartmouth senior Dalyn Williams took home the honor for Division I (both FBS and FCS) regional teams. This is the second time in his career that he has received the award, also earning it last year for his performance against this week’s opponent, Yale.

The honor comes as no surprise as Williams received national FCS player of the week awards on Monday from STATS and the College Football Performance Awards for his performance in a 41-20 victory at Penn this past Saturday. The native of Corinth, Texas, was on target with his throws against the Quakers, breaking a school record that had stood for 53 years by completing 92.0 percent (23-of-25) of his passes for 336 yards while matching a personal best with four touchdown tosses. The 6-0, 215-pound quarterback was also a threat with his legs, leading Dartmouth with 73 yards on 13 carries and two more scores.

Williams finished the day with 409 total yards, the fourth-most by a Big Green player ever and the third time he topped 400 in a game. His 336 passing yards marked his second straight 300-yard game and the fifth of his career, tying former NFL quarterback Jay Fiedler for the most by a Dartmouth quarterback. Each of his scoring strikes went further than the previous one, going for eight, 22, 30 and 43 yards.

Williams is currently second all-time at Dartmouth with 7,072 total yards and needs just 178 more to surpass Fiedler for the record. Of those 7,072 yards, 5,653 have come through the air, the third most in Big Green history and just over 1,000 yards behind Fiedler. Williams is the most accurate passer at Dartmouth ever, having completed 63.4 percent of his 727 pass attempts, and his touchdown-to-interception ratio of 45-to-8 is by far the best in Big Green history. He has not thrown an interception on any of his last 181 attempts, which is the second-longest ever at Dartmouth; Williams holds the record of 216 set at the start of his career.

This is the second straight Gold Helmet for Dartmouth as wide receiver Victor Williams took home the hardware last week. The senior was plenty worthy this week as well having caught 12 of the 23 completions for 213 yards, the second-most in school history.

Dartmouth will play its homecoming game on Saturday against Yale (3-0, 1-0 Ivy) in a matchup of unbeaten teams at 1:30 p.m. The game will be televised by Fox College Sports with Eric Frede and Steve DeOssie calling the action. Big Green fans can listen to the Dartmouth radio broadcast featuring Adam Giardino and Wayne Young ’72 on 99Rock (WFRD 99.3 FM) locally and free online through the Ivy League Digital Network (ildn.tv).