THE SEPTEMBER OUTLOOK
But all that is over now, and the situation returns to normalcy. Dartmouth has been surprisingly free from injuries; only Silas Snider, the capable fullback, is lost to the team indefinitely through a fractured ankle. Ed Jeremiah received a dislocated shoulder in the Columbia game, but the extent of his injury is not known.
Looking over the squad as they assembled under the shadow of Velvet Rocks on Labor Day, one could be naught but optimistic. By a queer paradox, the Green had lost a backfield over the summer and gained another. Only Al Marsters* remained. The tragic death of Harold Hamm while fishing this last Summer robbed the team of a first class fullback. Bob MacPhail, itinerant orator, and Myles Lane, chronic athlete, had graduated. And yet men arrived to fill the breach.
Eddie Reece is back with us again, the same Eddie who was Oberlander's substitute back in 1925 and who has been out of football for two years. Fred Breithut, whose only idiosyncrasy is that he throws with his left hand, stepped into a halfback berth. Bob Harris, who threw a flock of forward passes against Brown two years ago as Dooley's substitute, was the logical choice for quarter- back.
The return of Blinker Black lias out- shadowed all other developments. Black, who gained fame as the Pekin ploughboy who rammed holes in the Harvard line in 1926, and supposedly took Capt. Horton's job away from him, was out of every major game last season with a very bad knee. His teammates, with the fullest confidence in his potential ability, unanimously elected him captain this year, not knowing whether he would be able to play. Through some very efficient and capable operating by Dr. MacAusland of Boston, Black is back in the game better than ever, although he has been through the fire which would make an ordinary man quit.
The line was not so certain. Ellie Armstrong and Cowboy Cole stepped into the tackle positions and have been there ever since, although the men who flank them have been through considerable shuffling. The Cowboy adds the real color to a team which has lost a MacPhail and a Dooley in the past two years. He came to these parts fresh from throwing steers in Oklahoma, and regarded football as no less than war. What the Cowboy said to opposing linemen during the games was worth less than a double row of asterisks, and against the Brown freshmen he became so over- wrought that he threw an opposing lineman off the gridiron. But all that is past now, and he has developed into a powerful, fast tackle;
Sherman and Lyle, two dependables, have been at the guard positions, that section of the line which is required to be faster than the backfield, and which leads most of the inter- ference. Two young men by the name of Bromberg and Crehan have been putting up stiff opposition, and they have been in the games more than usual. Hal Andres, another Arlington boy, is first string center, although it is his first year up.
DICK BLACK, CAPTAIN OF THE 1928 FOOTBALL TEAM, WHO IS LOOKING FORWARD TO A SUCCESSFUL SEASON
*Commonly called "Arlington Al," "Special Delivery" and several other cognomens. Failing to gain in one game, his teammates dubbed him "Dead Letter" Marsters. Whereupon Al went out on the field and ran riot against the opposition.
