FOOTBALL

Whatever scores the games of the 1922 football season at Dartmouth may produce, the season is one which should be long remembered since it marks the first serious attempt on the part of the Athletic authorities to build up from the bottom a football "system" which shall be Dartmouth's own and which shall be a reasoned and carefully planned method of developing football teams and football players. Under head coach Cannell, advisory coaches, Bankhart, Hawley, and Tobin, and assistants, Ryan, MacAuliffe, and Robertson, the 1922 squad, which at the outset numbered over a hundred men has been sifted and threshed and moulded until an aggregation that appears to be one of the best Dartmouth teams of recent years is gradually taking shape.

Of outstanding players there are few,, and of so-called "phenoms" none in the present Dartmouth line-up. But the number of better than ordinary players is large with the line dividing first and second string material narrow and in some cases almost invisible. All of which is to say that the 1922 Dartmouth team looks to be a well-balanced group of good football players which will undoubtedly give a good account of itself and prove worthy of any opponent in the country—and a group that is getting the best of coaching in larger doses than any Dartmouth team for a considerable length of time. With the work of the present season to build upon, Dartmouth football should become better and more finished from year to year and the football reputation of the college be in no danger of suffering for a long time to come.

Neidlinger and Burke are, perhaps, the players most apt to carry off individual honors, though both the line and the backfield are plentifully supplied with men capable of pushing the two mentioned to the limit. Neidlinger is obviously the best tackle who has represented the College in several college generations and should be a strong contender for All-American honors. Captain Burke is a halfback of exceptional ability but Calder, Harris, Lee, Foster, Leavitt, and others will bear much watching and are little if arty inferior to the team leader. With quarterbacks the team is also well supplied, Smith, Stevens, and Mills, constituting a trio capable as any who have appeared in green jerseys in the last few years. In Lynch and Bjorkman the team has a pair of ends distinctly above the average and Moore, Hatch, Swenson, Taylor, Aschenbach, Goldstein, and several more are sturdy linemen in whom considerable reliance may be placed.

With Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, and Brown, all presenting teams stronger than any to have represented those institutions for several years the Dartmouth schedule is one not .to be taken lightly and one which as the English would say "will take a lot of beating". The Dartmouth team of this year is fully competent, however, to provide worthy opposition for any of them and each of the contests should be worth traveling long distances to see.

Dartmouth 20—Norwich 0

Norwich University, as usual, produced a team capable of providing the Green players with as stiff an opening game as any one could well wish for. In spite of the score and in spite of the fact that the Green team netted fourteen first downs to Norwich's one, Coach Cannell's men did not make a particularly brilliant showing. However, the day was one most unsuitable for football, with the heat so intense that at the end of the first quarter scarcely a coat was left in the bleachers.

After several exchanges of kicks Captain Burke and Leavitt took the ball from midfield across the goal line in straight rushes. Calder was unsuccessful in his attempt to add a point after the touchdown.

Early in the second quarter a long pass from Smith to Watkins started the Green team on another march. This was stopped, however, when Hagenbuckle caught Smith's pass outside the 10-yard zone and Norwich was given the ball on the 20-yard line. Within half a dozen plays the Dartmouth team was again at the Norwich goal, Foster carrying the ball across and Wright adding a point by a neat place kick. Foster and Wright repeated their performance in the second half of the game, bringing the total score to 20.

Coach Cannell made numerous substitutions throughout the game for the purpose of trying out new men. Only one serious injury was recorded, Pete Hurd being taken from the game with a fractured angle. He will be unable to return to the lineup before the game with Brown, which ends the season.

Dartmouth 19—Maine 0

Dartmouth displayed a much stronger offensive in its contest against Maine than that it had -shown for Norwich. With Calder, Harris, and Lee showing rapid development as backfield men and Neidlinger and Moore proving, as usual, their pre-eminent strength in the line, the team looked much better than it had looked previously.

Calder carried the ball across the line for the first touchdown of the game after a short punting contest between the teams and after Maine had produced power to hold the Green team fifteen yards from the goal line but had lost the ball on a fumble. A second touchdown came in the third quarter when Stevens leaped from the midst of a tangle of blue and green jerseys to catch Harris' pass, netting fifteen yards. Harris circled right in for a fifteen yards more and crossed the goal line. He added the extra point by a place kick. In the last quarter Calder annexed the final touchdown but failed in his attempt to kick the goal.

Neidlinger, as usual, was the star of the line players throughout the afternoon. In the backfield Harris' long runs around the ends and the line bucking of Lee and Calder were productive of many thrills. Coach Cannell used twenty-eight players in the course of the game.

Dartmouth 21—Middlebury 0

Coach Dave Morey's aggressive Middlebury team went down to a 21-0 defeat before the powerful offensive of the Dartmouth backfield. Calder, Foster, Harris, and Mills exhibited a brand of play which has been too often lacking at Dartmouth for several years. Mills, a 130-pound quarterback sent in to replace Stevens, proved to be something of a find. In spite of his lack of weight he should be a source of some comfort to the coaches in the case of injuries to the other quarterbacks, as he is very fast and aggressive, cool as the proverbial cucumber, and with a nice sense of football strategy. Lee scored the first touchdown of the afternoon after a series of thrilling runs in which Stevens figured with a run of 47 yards and Harris with one of 20. Harris kicked the goal after the touchdown. Late in the second quarter the Dartmouth team was started again toward the Middlebury goal when Harris made 32 yards through left tackle. A forward pass from Harris to Lee netted 25 yards more and following it Mills faked an end run and slipped over the line for the second touchdown. Harris added the extra point. In the last quarter of the game Hatch recovered a Middlebury fumble on the 20-yard line. Calder, Foster, and Mills plodded the rest of the distance, Mills going over the line for the final score of the game.

Freshmen O—Exeter 0

Sid Hazelton's '26 football teeam started their season with a very creditable showing, by holding the strong Exeter eleven to a scoreless tie. The school boys had previously defeated the Harvard freshmen and have since defeated by a rare score the Yale freshman team. The game was played in a drizzling rain and on a slippery field but was nevertheless interesting and hard fought.

Freshmen 26—Goddard 0

The freshman team exhibited a powerful, aggressive brand of football in deating Goddard Seminary 26-0, October 14. The Goddard team never seriously menaced the heavier freshman eleven and the Hanover boys had the ball in their possession most of the time. Fallon, a freshman left halfback, was responsible for two touchdowns and Dooley and Starrett for one each. Oberlander, right tackle and captain of the freshman team, played a strong game in the line.