Fresh off capturing a share of the Ivy League title for the second consecutive season, the Dartmouth College football team had 15 players earn postseason distinctions, the league announced on Tuesday. 

Sophomore kicker Owen Zalc took home the Ivy League’s special teams player of the year award — he was also named a unanimous All-Ivy first team selection. The Big Green led the conference with nine first team All-Ivy honorees, the program’s most since 2014.

Zalc, who was named first team All-Ivy as a freshman, led the conference in points (74), booted all 35 of his extra point attempts through the uprights and hit 13 of 17 field goal attempts. His game-winning field goal kick against Merrimack and a career-long 54-yard boot against Harvard on Nov. 2 — which set a program record — highlighted another standout year for Zalc.

Senior defensive end Josiah Green was Dartmouth’s other unanimous first team All-Ivy selection. Green finished second on the team in tackles-for-loss (9), third in sacks (3) and fourth in total tackles (49). Three other Big Green players joined the Indianapolis, Ind., native on the All-Ivy first team defense: senior defensive end Ejike Adele, senior cornerback Jordan Washington and senior linebacker Braden Mullen.

Adele, who also earned academic All-Ivy honors, wreaked havoc in the backfield all season, pacing Dartmouth with 12 tackles-for-loss and six sacks this season. Those marks ranked first and third, respectively, in the conference. Washington finished his final campaign in Hanover with a team-high 11 pass breakups, including a career-high four in the regular-season finale against Brown. His lone interception, a 58-yard pick-six, also came against the Bears. Mullen finished fourth in the conference in sacks (5) and in a seventh-place tie in tackles-for-loss (7.5). 

On the other side of the ball, offensive coordinator Kevin Daft’s unit had four players named to the All-Ivy first team offense: fifth-year offensive lineman Kyle Brown, junior offensive lineman Delby Lemieux, senior running back Q Jones and junior tight end Chris Corbo. 

Brown and Lemieux led an offensive line that finished 19th nationally in sacks allowed per game (1.2) and laid the groundwork for a Big Green run game that finished third in the conference, averaging 166.5 rushing yards per contest. Perhaps no one benefited more from the work of the offensive line than Jones, who earned first team honors after being tabbed as an honorable mention last season. Jones rushed for 711 yards on 162 carries (71.1 yards per game) and found the end zone four total times this year. 

The last All-Ivy first team honoree was Corbo, who — after recording just nine receptions in his first two years in Hanover — broke out this fall. The 6-foot-5 tight end hauled in 32 receptions for 315 yards and a team-high seven touchdowns, a mark that ranked second in the FCS among tight ends. 

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Dartmouth also had six players earn honorable mention All-Ivy recognition. The offense had two players — senior offensive lineman Nick Molinaro and fifth-year wide receiver Paxton Scott — receive the distinction. Scott, who missed the last four games of the season with a foot injury, led the team in receptions (34) and finished second in receiving yards (411). He finishes his Big Green career with 165 receptions for 1,937 yards and 10 touchdowns. He ranks fourth all-time in program history in receptions and seventh in receiving yards. 

Dartmouth’s defense, meanwhile, had four players — senior linebackers Micah Green and Danny Cronin, senior defensive lineman Derrell Porter and senior defensive back Sean Williams — named honorable mentions. 

Porter, part of a three-man wrecking crew up front alongside Adele and Josiah Green, posted six tackles-for-loss and 34 total tackles on the season. In his breakout season for the Big Green, Micah Green led the team in tackles (76) and added 3.5 tackles-for-loss, a pair of sacks, an interception and a forced fumble. Cronin tied Adele for second on the team in total tackles (54), while also posting four tackles-for-loss, an interception and a forced fumble. Williams, a second-team defensive selection in 2023, posted 40 tackles and nabbed an interception this season. 

The Big Green will graduate 11 of its 15 All-Ivy honorees. Dartmouth’s senior class departs Hanover having captured three of the last four Ancient Eight crowns.

Alex Cervantes can be reached at acervantes@vnews.com or 603-727-7302.