FOOTBALL

Early season practice left the coaches and all those in Hanover who are close to the football team in a pessimistic state of mind. Press dispatches were correct in emphasizing day after day that the "Big Green line is weak, but backfield material is plentiful and talented." The line still offers the greatest problem for Jess Hawley and his helpers to solve. With the exception of Phillips at guard and Langdell at tackle there is no experienced material in the forward wall, which is so vital to the Dartmouth offense and essential to. every type of defense.

The backfield is another story. Led by Myles Lane, who has been prominent in ball-carrying and pass-receiving for two seasons, the backs give good grounds to those who have fond hopes for a successful year. Capt. MacPhail is back at the position he played on the great 1925 eleven and as quarterback and generalissimo of his forces he is doing a fine job. Black, the hard-running fullback who, last year, as a sophomore won universal praise for his work, looks as good as ever. The right halfback on team A is A 1 Marsters, a sophomore, and undoubtedly one of the fastest and best running backs that has represented Dartmouth in many years. The reserves are almost as good. Harris and Breithut from last year, Hamm, McDonough, Lillard, Longnecker and Jeremiah, who especially bears watching, make up the fine backfield material sent up from the freshman team by Sid Hazelton. Snider is ready to relieve Black and Hamm at fullback.

Marsters and Lane are doing the passing now. Hamm passes for the second team and if Breithut recovers from a bad injury he will be the most valuable man in this important offensive branch. Black, Marsters, Harris, Hamm and Jeremiah do the punting.

In the early games McAvoy and. Cole have had a decided edge on the other end candidates. But Fusonie, Swarthout and Bankart will be very useful later in the year. Hookie Hagenbuckle '24 has returned to coach the ends and together with Josh Davis, center for the last two seasons, are the additions to Coach Hawley's staff.

The center position is still up in the air with three men competing for the place. Gow seems to be the first choice, with Killkelly and Foster for reserves. The line is showing steady improvement and the addition of Armstrong at tackle from the 1930 team is proving valuable. Phelan and Sherman are playing at guard with Phillips. Langdell, a letter-man, with Edgar and Hein are tackles.

The early games have borne out the pessimism in regard to the line as they have shown that the backfield is not at all overrated. The coordination between the two has not been inspiring but the coaches are bending all their efforts in this direction.

Dartmouth 47—Norwich 0

The cadets from Vermont were the first opponents of Dartmouth this year following the custom of several years. Norwich brought an inferior team to Hanover but held the Green to 12 points less than the scores for each of the last two seasons have totaled. Successful passes and a slashing running attack kept Norwich on the defensive for the major portion of the game. Lane, Black, Marsters and Jeremiah were the big ground gainers and Swarthout snared two passes for touchdowns. Penalties on both teams were frequent and due to the new ruling which allows one back to be in motion before the ball is passed back from center, but not more than one, Dartmouth was heavily penalized, to the extent of more than one hundred yards.

Dartmouth 46—Hobart 0

With a noticeable improvement in the Dartmouth line play over the Norwich game of the previous Saturday Hobart, the New York State College that has sent a team to Hanover for three successive years, went down to defeat after putting up a game fight in the first half. In the second period the visitors worked up the field from their own 20-yard line and a fumbled pass prevented their scoring. After that it was pretty much all Dartmouth.

Lane led a brilliant backfield, cleverly directed by MacPhail, by scoring four touchdowns and kicking the point after each one. Other scores were made by MacPhail, Marsters and Longnecker. Several passes alternating between Lane to Marsters and Marsterj to Lane were the high spots of the game, together with long runs by these two star backs and Black.

Hobart brought to Hanover its usual welldrilled team with its peculiar "wooden-soldier" shift from huddle to the scrimmage line. The Dartmouth line displayed its best form of the season in breaking up any consistent gains by the New Yorkers and in opening holes on the offense.

Dartmouth 38—Allegheny 7

Little Allegheny from Meadville, Pa., threw a scare into the Dartmouth camp in the third early season game by holding a more powerful eleven for an entire first half and leading most of the half by a 7-6 margin. In the second half a rejuvenated and smoothly working combination piled up 32 points to win and to encourage the optimists who are predicting a year of Dartmouth victories. Lane again led the attack, this time with three touchdowns which put him at the head of the list of high scorers in the East.

The fleet Dartmouth back scored twice within one minute, once on a short dive-tackle play and again in what stands as the longest run of the present Dartmouth college generation on a run from the kickoff following his first touchdown, when he raced 90 yards to cross the last white line. He was given perfect interference on the run-back. Langdell, tackle, took out the quarterback, who was the only Allegheny player between Lane and the goal line, after the Dartmouth runner had passed mid-field.

Allegheny scored on an intercepted pass, caught by Captain Behrhorst on the Dartmouth forty-yard mark. The visiting leader then raced over for the first score of the year against the Big Green. The Allegheny team, coached by Mel Merritt. '2O, played a hard, clean game and furnished a real test for Dartmouth at this stage of the season. Forward passing was little used by either team and those few that Dartmouth attempted were unsuccessful and one was intercepted and resulted in a touchdown for the opponents.

The Big Green Sprints to Practice