THE BIG GREEN TEAM

After a lapse of two years, Dartmouth has come into its own again this fall among the leaders of Eastern college football. Metropolitan newspapers are unanimous in heralding the Dartmouth eleven as a real “Big Green Team”, one of the logical contenders for the Eastern championship.

in the years before the war a Dartmouth varsity invariably stood before football fol- lowers as the “Big Green Team”. The “big- ness” was never a matter of overpowering weight; it was rarely the result of a combin- ation of individual stars. But always the main strength of a Dartmouth eleven lay in its everlasting determination to win, regardless of odds. The same fighting characteristic gave Dartmouth a great team in the 1919 season.

In the first big game of the year, Penn State scored two touchdowns in the first half, but the Green eleven came from behind and won. Colgate led up to the last minute of play, when a blocked punt and goal for Dartmouth left the score a 7-7 tie. A nip-and-tuck battle with Penn finally ended with the Green on the long end of a 20-19 score. And even in the closing contest with Brown, the only blemish on an otherwise spotless slate, a single point marked the margin of defeat.

Dartmouth students believe to a man that their team earned a rightful claim to the Eastern championship. They_have seen it play to a close one of the hardest schedules in the history of the College, handicapped at all times by a discouraging chain of injuries. Under- graduates feel that every man on the 1919 eleven, as well as Coach Spears, who welded the individuals into a smooth-working unit, merits a place in Dartmouth s athletic Hall of Fame.