SOCCER

Dartmouth s—Wesleyan 3

The good work of Coach Tom Dent bore fruit October 1 when the soccer team defeated a strong Wesleyan eleven sto 3. This was the first game of the season for both teams.

The Dartmouth scores were made by Schmitz (3), Woodbridge, and Annis. Soccer is gaining in popularity both as an organized form of athletic competition and as a recreational activity. A freshman team has been formed and will play several games this fall.

Dartmouth 3—New Hampshire 2

In a closely contested but loosely played game the soccer team defeated the University of New Hampshire eleven on Chase Field October 7, 3-2. A very regrettable accident occurred in the first few minutes of play which deprives Dartmouth of its captain and of a mainstay of the team. Captain Makepeace and Lawrence, rushing together from opposite directions in an attempt to head the ball, jumped into the air, their heads meeting with a crack which could be heard all over the field. Both dropped unconscious and Makepeace with a broken nose, and Lawrence with a slight concussion of the brain will be out for the season.

Marks scored two goals for Dartmouth and Johnson added the third point. Coach Dent was disappointed in the showing of his team and now, handicapped by the loss of two of his most dependable men, must work doubly hard to bring the team up to good form for the coming important games.

The Norwich Game

Each year following the Norwich football game, the first on Dartmouth's schedule, speculation is rife as to why a small college team should annually engage a more powerful eleven, with little, if any, hope of victory. The Norwich student paper explains: "Tomorrow the corps of cadets will be in Hanover to witness the annual football game between Norwich and Dartmouth, to cheer in successful attempts to drown out the Dartmouth stands, and to start the return journey to Northfield with happy memories of a good game well played. The closeness of the game brings to mind the old discussion of the wiseness of little Norwich playing powerful Dartmouth in football. Those in favor of discontinuing the games point out that in recent years the cadets have not scored on Dartmouth and that the opposition scores have been very large.

"This is very true, but remember that Norwich defeated Dartmouth in baseball under conditions just as inauspicious as any that have attended a Norwich-Dartmouth football game. There is always the chance that the unexpected will happen in football as it did in baseball. Other small colleges play Dartmouth in football, get trimmed as badly as Norwich sometimes does, and continue to keep on the Green's schedule. Vermont, not much larger than Norwich, plays not only Dartmouth but Harvard and Yale as well.

"Half of football is the spirit that is displayed by the team and by the student body. Norwich has both, Dartmouth has both. No one can say that the Big Green players are lacking in spirit, but any one who has heard the comparatively small Norwich delegation out-yell the massive Dartmouth stands time and time again knows that while the Indian of the North has the true deep-feeling spirit that the cadet possesses —he is sometimes more reticent about showing it.

"The annual trip to Hanover is fast developing into a deep-rooted Norwich tradition. To discontinue the games now would mean to the outside world that Norwich has decided to drop a tradition because of a few defeats. We cannot allow the world to get the impression that Norwich is downhearted by a succession of defeats, but rather we must prove to the world that Norwich spirit is not cooled by a mere defeat. We cannot afford to lose the Dartmouth game from our schedule because our teams need the experience, the college needs the publicity, and most of all we need the cordiality and the respect that Dartmouth always offers us when we go to Hanover.

"The Dartmouth smoker gave to the freshmen some of the true meaning of Norwich's spirit, and tomorrow's game will give them still more. They will learn what it means to march with Norwich men and get a part of the greeting that is always accorded them, they will find out what it means to watch the Maroon team hold the Green backs to no gains, and they will know the thrill that comes when a cadet runner makes a Ion? gain. The freshmen have not been an enviable crowd so far but tomorrow many upperclassmen will wish that they were rooks so that they could have that initial thrill all over again."

The Norwich Guidon

"Hit 'em Hard and Low"