R. W. BLACK ELECTED FOOTBALL CAPTAIN

Richard W. Black '29 was unanimously elected to lead next year's varsity eleven at a meeting of the letter men held November 17th at White's Studio. At the time of his election Black was studying history at Dick's House, where he has been confined for several days past with his leg in a plaster cast.

The captain-elect prepared at Pekin (Ill.) high school and at Lake Forest Academy, where he played fullback for three years, from 1922 to 1924.

During his freshman year here, Black won his numerals as fullback on his class team. This eleven met with a single reverse, which was at the hands of the Princeton yearlings. The Tiger cubs scored early in the game and succeeded in holding the Green freshmen scoreless throughout the remainder of the struggle.

He was a sensation during his sophomore year, scoring Dartmouth's only touchdown against Yale, and running wild against Harvard a week later. He was used mostly as a line plunger, and was Quarterback Dooley's main reliance when several yards were desperately needed.

This season he began to run the ends in addition to breaking the line, and did both with a high degree of success, but his injury in the Allegheny contest laid him low until the Brown game. In the very first play against the Bruins, his leg went wrong again, and he was unable to play in the annual Cornell struggle. Black is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and of the Green Key.

The Dartmouth Game

The loss of the Dartmouth football game, although not a great surprise, was a real disappointment. The increasing interest in this annual contest in the Stadium makes it almost, if not quite, as important as any on the Harvard schedule. We want to win our full share of the games with Dartmouth, and if we cannot have victory, we want to come close to it. But, even in the face of last Saturday's score, Harvard men have no reason to apologize for their eleven; although it could not stop the wide runs on. which Dartmouth gained so consistently, it showed a real offense and we believe it will do well in the games yet to come.

With some hesitation, because we do not want to seem to reflect on our friends in New Hampshire, we remind the readers of the Bulletin that Dartmouth began practice this fall about two weeks earlier than Harvard. We envy Dartmouth that privilege. We do not intimate, nor do we believe, that Harvard could have beaten Dartmouth if both teams had opened training on the same day; but, for the sake of critical Harvard men—and there are such—we may be permitted to suggest that Captain Pratt's eleven would have been further developed last Saturday if it had had two additional weeks of practice, just as we expect it to be better two weeks hence than it is now.

Captain-elect R. W. Black