Athletics

A week or so ago, some enterprising editor in Boston wrote to your correspondent, and wanted to know what Dartmouth thought about the political situation, as he had already compiled statistics from a score of other colleges.

The only thing that your correspondent could think of for an answer to that query was that the Brown Derby had given way to the Green Helmet, and shoulder pads were far more interesting than a size 16 collar in these thar hills. In fact the College so loves its football that many gentlemen have already begun to view with alarm and deplore this and that when the subject ofoveremphasis is brought up.

The cause of it all seems to be that Dartmouth will again have a good football team. Of course when this squib appears many Green players will have had their annual pow wow in the Harvard Stadium, and the first big game will be over. At this stage of the game the first four contests have been played, and the team can only be estimated on the strength of that showing.

The Big Green coaching staff has been in the throes of an agitation complex caused by conflicting reports emanating' from Hanover during the course of the fall. Jesse Hawley has been harassed from time to time regarding the local correspondents and his moods have ranged from mild surprise to violent rhetorical tantrums, the last being caused by a report that Dartmouth had 40 men in the hospital, and the coaches were having trouble finding eleven men to put on the field.

Letters came pouring into the office asking if Hawley was trying to emulate his sad but strategic contemporary, Gil Dobie, and if there were so many injured what Harry Hillman, the demon trainer, was doing in his spare time. To make matters worse, your correspondent was careless enough to drop a football on Mr. Hillman's head during practice, at which he evidenced extreme agitation and cleared the field of reporters