OFF THE CUFF

"Old Man" Stagg is reported to have told his men that they were defeated by the greatest football team he had ever seen.

It is being generally overlooked that in its four major games the Dartmouth team scored over a hundred yards more by rushing than by passing.

Another interesting item revealed by the charts, is that Dartmouth's opponents attempted more passes than did the Green team.

The battle rages in public prints as to the comparative merits of Oberlander and Grange. "Obey," because of all-around effectiveness, seems to date to have the edge. The latest to enlist with him has been Heywood Broun.

Romaine Berry, than whom no other, reports in the Cornell Alumni Weekly, that after debating the question for forty-eight hours the State Street experts of Ithaca have decided that the way to stop the Dartmouth attack is to butter the ball. And that every resident of Ithaca under fourteen years of age is "off Oberlander for life."

"Well," said one of the Maroon rooters as he left Stagg Field, "You can't beat a team that throws touchdowns."

The thrills in the Cornell game came so swiftly that it was impossible afterward for anybody to write a coherent story of the day. There was football par excellence and nobody who saw it expects ever again to see anything like or even remotely like it.

The only dull spot in the season came at Providence. Neither of the teams playing there October 31 showed anything to write home about. It was perfectly alright to go home and wake up the children to tell them about the Harvard game. After the Cornell game you could have awakened the mother-inlaw too. At Chicago nobody slept anyway!

Grantland Rice writes: "In its last four games—against Harvard, Brown, Cornell, and Chicago—the Green attack ran up a total of 140 points, an average of 35 to the game. We can recall no attack in modern history that has piled up so many points in feature contests, that has shown as much versatility, and as much power and speed. Above that, no team in the history of the new game has ever put the forward pass to as brilliant use as Jess Hawley's lineup with big Oberlander tossing the ball from 35 to 50 yards down the field."

Read these and weep. In the six games following the contest with Hobart the Dartmouth rushing attack made net gains totaling 1847 yards to opponents' net of 517 yards. Dartmouth passes gained 831 yards to 295 yards which opposing teams snared in the same way.

Some idea of the speed of Dartmouth's attack is gleaned from the number of rushing plays put on. Against Cornell Dartmouth rushed the ball 76 times. In the last six games the Green team averaged almost 63 rushes per game and 13H passes. The only game in which Dartmouth rushed more than against

Corneir was the Maine game when 77 rushes netted 493 yards.

Against Cornell Dartmouth gained 346 yards by rushing and 331 by passing.

None other than Bill Roper, of Princeton, says that "Oberlander is easily the outstanding back of the East if not of the entire country."