AN UNUSUAL TRIBUTE

The work of Laurence Bankart as a coach is of course known to all Dartmouth men and is a source of satisfaction to them. His personal qualifications and the nature of their influence are less understood. The following editorial from the Colgate Maroon for November 25, will therefore be of interest.

"Laurence Bankart left Colgate for the season last evening amid the wild cheers of a student body which loves him. Even as he departed, he gave, as he has often given before, a message of courage and strength to the men of this college. Modestly disclaiming all credit for Colgate's football success he told his hearers what the five hundred and fifty men on the Hill have done, and can do again if they only will.

"It is fitting as this especially successful season closes that we should stop to think of Larry Bankart's work. We do not wait .for the outcome of the Brown game. Our opinion of the coach can be changed not one iota for better or for worse by victory or defeat next Thursday at Providence. It is not victories that have made Colgate like Mr. Bankart — it is himself.

"His influence on the campus has been more than remarkable. Many a man has noted the clean life of the coach and, noting, changed his own. Many a man has seen the modesty of the coach and, seeing, has taken from his own soul some measure of unmanly self-esteem. Colgate life has been higher and better throughout the last college generation because of the fineness and manliness of Laurence Bankart.

"Mr. Bankart has done much for this institution, 'a college which is his only by adoption.' Scores of critics would attribute to him alone, although he would modestly disclaim it, the marvellous success of this small college in the important football arenas during the last four years. Colgate teams are not made of freshman stars. Maroon raw material is unusually raw. Only intelligent and unceasing coaching can pattern from this material the winning 'teams which Colgate sends forth. Such coaching Larry Bankart has given. All .that Colgate teams have done in these recent seasons is due to the little greenclad coach with his constant, 'Fight Fight, Fight'.

"Colgate loves Larry Bankart — for his life, for his work, and we take this fitting opportunity to tell him."