The Dartmouth Big Green football team represents Dartmouth College in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) college football competition as a member of the Ivy League. The team possesses a storied tradition that includes a national championship, seventeen Ivy League championships, and eleven College Football Hall of Fame inductees.

The sport of football, in its embryonic form, was played on the campus as early as 1876. Goalposts were erected on the green where they stood for several months, before being removed for the 1877 commencement. The first intercollegiate game occurred on November 16, 1881, when Amherst traveled to Dartmouth. The Green won with a score of one goal to none. On November 21, the teams met in Amherst, Massachusetts for a rematch on Thanksgiving Day, and the scoreless game ended prematurely in a tie because of snow. In the following years, Dartmouth played games against some of the best teams in the nation. In 1882, Dartmouth played Harvard for the first time and lost, 53–0. In 1884, Yale visited Dartmouth and routed the Green, 113–0. The Elis teams did not return to Hanover until 1971.

The Dartmouth College Big Green are the varsity and club athletic teams of Dartmouth College, an American university located in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dartmouth's teams compete in the Ivy League conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, as well as in the ECAC Hockey conference. The College offers 34 varsity teams, 17 club sports, and 24 intramural teams. Sports teams are heavily ingrained in the culture of the College and serve as a social outlet, with 75% of the student body participating in some form of athletics.

The students adopted a shade of forest green ("Dartmouth Green") as the school's official color in 1866. Beginning in the 1920s, the Dartmouth College athletic teams were known by their unofficial nickname "the Indians," a moniker that probably originated among sports journalists. This unofficial mascot and team name was used until the early 1970s, when its use came under criticism. In the 1974, the Trustees declared the "use of the [Indian] symbol in any form to be inconsistent with present institutional and academic objectives of the College in advancing Native American education." Some alumni and students, as well as the conservative student newspaper, The Dartmouth Review, have sought to return the Indian symbol to prominence, but no team has worn the symbol on its uniform in decades. The new nickname was inspired by The Dartmouth Green in the center of campus.

Norman Luboff (May 14, 1917 - September 22, 1987) was an American music arranger, music publisher, and choir director.

Norman Luboff was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1917. He studied piano as a child and participated in his high school chorus. Luboff studied at the University of Chicago and Central College in Chicago. Following this, he did graduate work with the composer Leo Sowerby while singing and writing for radio programs in Chicago. In the mid-1940s, Luboff moved to New York City.

With a call from Hollywood to be choral director of The Railroad Hour, a radio weekly starring Gordon MacRae, Luboff began a successful career scoring many television programs and more than eighty motion pictures. He also recorded with artists such as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, Frankie Laine and Doris Day.

In 1950, he established Walton Music Corporation, to publish his music. Luboff provided a vehicle for composers in Sweden to have their works available in the United States, including Egil Hovland and Waldemar Ahlen. Walton Music exists today as a major choral music publisher, under the guidance of Luboff's widow, Gunilla Marcus-Luboff, a former Swedish television producer.

Paul Rice Paul Rice is the President & CEO of Fair Trade USA, a third-party certifier of Fair Trade products in the United States. He spent most of the 1980s working directly in the field with cooperative farmers, creating and implementing training programs aimed at developing small farmers’ organizational and business capacity.

Working for 11 years in the mountainous Segovias region of Nicaragua as a rural development specialist, Rice founded and became the first CEO of PRODECOOP in 1990, a Fair Trade organic cooperative representing almost 3,000 small coffee farmers in northern Nicaragua. He led PRODECOOP for 4 years, leading to sales in the European Fair Trade and gourmet coffee markets. Subsequently, Rice served as strategy consultant and development advisor to 22 cooperative enterprises in Latin America and Asia.

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) founded Trans Fair USA in 1998 to open the specialty coffee market to small family farmers. Since IATP had also founded Peace Coffee, a 100% fair trade coffee company, they established TransFair USA as a stand-alone non-profit and hired Rice to lead it. Rice has received several international awards for his work, including: the Ashoka Fellowship, the Klaus Schwab Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship, Fast Company magazine’s Social Capitalist of the Year award (four-time winner), and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. Paul holds a Political Science degree from Yale University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

John Replogle is the President and CEO of Seventh Generation Inc., a U.S.-based, consumer product company.

Replogle earned an A.B. in government from Dartmouth College in 1988. While a student at Dartmouth, he served as student body president and was a member of Bones Gate fraternity. After leaving Dartmouth, Replogle spent five years working at the Boston Consulting Group before enrolling at Harvard Business School, where he graduated with distinction two years later.

After Harvard, he was hired by Guinness Brewery as head of strategy for Guinness Americas and Caribbean. He remained with the company (a subsidiary of Diageo) for eight years, eventually becoming President of Guinness Bass Import Co. in the U.S. and Guinness U.K. Replogle was previously the general manager for Unilever's North American skin care division and President and CEO of Burt's Bees before joining Seventh Generation Inc. as CEO and President on February 9, 2011. Replogle is also notably the younger brother of Bruce Replogle, former Publicist to John Lennon on Double Fantasy, and founder and CEO of Rock Management USA.