FOOTBALL REVIEW

Dartmouth's clear-cut victory over Harvard was a brilliant ending of a very successful football season. Under the able and enthusiastic instruction of coaches O'Connor and Gilman and Prof. John W. Bowler, the team came through the season without a defeat, and scored one hundred and fifty points to its opponents' ten.

The first game of the season was with Norwich University, September 28.' While the game gave the coaches little opportunity to size up the men, nevertheless the 12 to 0 victory was a successful beginning. The next game, with the University of Vermont, found Dartmouth trying the open game unsuccessfully, and the Green was fortunate to escape with a 0 to 0 score.

The Tufts game, however, afforded a good opportunity to see the .possibilities of the eleven. Ingersoll and Marks showed power which was soon to make their playing exceptional, and other men gave promise. Dartmouth outplayed Tufts, but occasional weakness in fundamentals prevented the Green from making more than six points.

The game with New Hampshire State, October 9, found Dartmouth in a slump. The playing was poor from start to finish: fumbles, flukes, and erratic plays were frequent. Moreover, the success with which the visitors employed the shift formation proved that Dartmouth's defense was weaker than had been supposed. Dartmouth was indeed fortunate to score a 10 to 0 victory.

When Dartmouth played Massachusetts State, however, considerable improvement was manifest. The line was steady and the backfield aggressive. The score was only 6 to 0, but Dartmouth outrushed its opponents five to one.

At Portland, October 19, Dartmouth lined up for the first time on foreign ground, and there defeated the University of Maine 27 to 0. The team showed a distinct gain in knowledge of new football, working the onside kick and forward pass for long and consistent gains.

The game at Amherst, October 26, was Dartmouth's first real test, however. The Amherst team, trained to the hour, was quick to take advantage of Dartmouth's mistakes and, without showing much ability on the offense, scored ten points while Dartmouth was scoring fifteen. The score does not, therefore, show the relative strength of the teams, as Dartmouth outrushed Amherst six to one, but lost many yards on costly fumbles and heavy penalties.

Brilliant victories over Holy Cross and Harvard, which are recorded elsewhere in this issue, concluded the season.

Thursday evening, November 21, the undergraduates celebrated the season's victories with a torchlight procession and a mammoth bonfire. President Tucker and Professors J. K. Lord, Richardson, Worthen, and Sherman, made brief speeches at their residences. Doctor Tucker said: "I'm sorry, gentlemen, that I can't make a speech tonight, but I'll say this: You put pluck into the game, you put brains into the game, and you celebrated without the co-operation of the police."

The seventeen Dartmouth men who played in the Harvard game represent ten states, as follows: Lang, New Hampshire; Captain-elect Kennedy, Baldwin, Tobin, and Sherwin, Massachusetts; R. Bankart and L. Bankart, Maine; Schildmiller, Connecticut; DeAngelis, New York; Ingersoll, Ohio: Stuart, Iowa; Marks and Hawley,Minnesota; Captain Glaze, Rich and Brusse, Colorado; Saxton, California.