PASSING STILL DOUBTFUL
The passing game, while not conspicuous this year, is not so impressive. Ends like Tully and Sage of 1925 do not come with every crop of football players, and as a result the halfback have been overthrowing their wing men, and the most telling of forwards have travelled from halfback to half- back. But of course at this stage of the season, Hawley is not going to show his whole hand. When a team can ride into a comfortable lead using the fundamental passing and running plays, it is not going to divulge anything further, and the quarterbacks have evidently been instructed along these lines.
Even that most shopworn of all plays, the Statue of Liberty, has not been uncrated. To us who sat in the Brown press box during that flooded week end last year, and saw this play pulled on the Brown team which was caught flatfooted, no greater thrill could be had. Al Marsters held the ball on that Saturday, and dependable Myles Lane appeared from nowhere to take it off his outstretched hand and run for a touchdown.
To that Dartmouth line belongs the utmost of credit. Those who watch the plays from the sidelines are ever inclined to follow the man with the ball, but time and again this year, the guards, preceding the runners have gone through and cleaned out secondary men which normally they were not expected to do. One of the highlights of the Hobart game was Mike Sherman's work in this department which was directly responsible for some of Marster's long gallops.
A team with the material that has been uncovered so far this season should be one on which to pin great hopes. The second team represents almost in entirety the freshman eleven of last year. Several of the men have already been knocking at the door of the varsity of late, and the most notable is Ed O'Connor, sometime yearling captain. The fact that he substitutes for Adna Cole is the only thing keeping him out of the starting lineup. Against Allegheny he broke their hearts by scooping up a loose ball, gathering steam and lumbering some 80 yards for a touchdown.
