FOOTBALL

Within the last few years Head Coach Canned has captained preparatory, service, freshman, and varsity teams, and to the incidental coaching knowledge thus acquired abroad and at Hanover he has added that of assistant coach of the Dartmouth team of a year ago and the knowledge gained by purposeful contact with other football teachers. His command of football knowledge has been gained under fire and his command of his team may be expected from his experience.

Advisory Coach Louden this year is to be with us for a ten weeks' period with ample opportunity for the first time to put into effect completely his ideas of end and tackle play.

Assistant Coaches Dorney and Merritt were dependable line players, both with experience at guard and at center at preparatory school and recently with the varsity, and to them is given the detailed instruction of the center of the line.

The coaching combination working together as a unit is intended to produce an entirely modern exhibition of the open football game with adequate grounding in the fundamentals.

The football schedule is unique by reason of the open date on November fifth. The first four games would be naturally designated as preliminary, those with Norwich, Middlebury, New Hampshire State, and Tennessee, although any one or more of these opponents is likely to develop that unexpected power now often found in the smaller teams. Next comes the important home contest with Columbia, and then the first out-of-town game with Cornell at Ithaca. These two are early objective games with rivals likely to become permanent, since we play this year in each case the first contest of an agreed-upon three-years' series. Dartmouth particularly desires to win these games and to avoid the sting of mid-season tie or defeat experienced a few times in recent history. The open date on November fifth will remain open. There is here afforded a two-weeks' period in which to repair any ravages of the early season and to square away the team mentally and physically for the three remaining important games of the schedule with Pennsylvania, Syracuse and Georgia, all on foreign fields, upon the outcome of which will depend the rating of the Dartmouth team for the year 1921. At Atlanta a first-class team will be met which will call forth our best efforts The appearance of Dartmouth in southern territory will awaken an interest, in the college in a district where hitherto it has been almost entirely unknown.

The present schedule does not meet some of the requirements of our alumni that out-of-town games be played in certain geographical locations, and it may not entirely furnish the financial support desired for our athletic program. From the coaching and playing standpoint, with its climaxes, however, it is the most favorable of any in recent years.

Of the material available for the football season of 1921, veterans are left for five positions, men whose experience stamps them as first-class players. For the other positions, center, both guards, one tackle, quarterback, and fullback, there is a flood of likely-looking, husky, but rather inexperienced candidates from the scrub and freshman teams. A tentative line-up can be selected, comparing in weight, power and intelligence with Dartmouth teams of recent years, and as this article is written this line-up is beginning to show the expected power and the fight which during its entire history has guaranteed Dartmouth against mediocre football teams.