FOOTBALL HOSPITALITY LIKED

The hospitality of Dartmouth’s coaching staff to visiting sport writers seems to have created an impression on the men who came to Hanover for the big games with Penn State and Colgate. The following notice appeared November 5, in the sporting department of the Boston Post:

“The ethics of entertaining sporting writers at secret football practice varies widely at our Eastern colleges in these closing weeks of football. Rating the different teams ac- cording to their receptions to newspaper men, Dartmouth is our all-American choice.

“Dartmouth showed ’em all something over the last week-end. Hanover was a mecca for football writers such as it never was before. The experts and scriveners from all over the East came to see the Dartmouth-Colgate smash. And did the Green coaching staff slip the experts the cool onceover and the gate? It did not.

“Head Coach Spears was parked in Hanover Inn, which was headquarters for the news- paper men; and together with his assistants, Red Loudon, Hank Llewellyn and Jess Haw- ley, they met all comers from the sport-writ- ing ranks. Spears not only met them, but per- sonally brought them down to Alumni Oval to watch a secret drill the afternoon before the game. And before he went back, he and his staff piloted the scriveners all over Dart- mouth’s celebrated gymnasium, of which they’re very proud.

“But giving the happy hand to the newspap- er guys the day before the game wasn’t enough for Spears—he stayed up till 1 o’clock on the morning of the game, chinning over the great battle; and the night after the fuss he was still entertaining the newspaper birds with such inside stuff on a big game as they never got before. To state that Spears was a smash- ing hit among the Boston and New York sport writers is minimizing the tribute. He and his coaching mates were nothing short of a riot in the popularity league.”