THE CRIPPLES AT NEW HAVEN

Against Yale it was another story. Dartmouth was all shot to pieces physically, and Hawley was forced to start no one man in the backfield who had faced Harvard. There was the strange case of Robert E. Lee, Jr. For weeks he had been the third string fullback, but he was suddenly shifted to the right halfback position before the game, and was started there. The explanation was simple. Against Harvard, Breithut was so crippled that he was declared through. The real star of the Crimson game was a young sophomore, Shep Wolff, who played truly remarkable and consistent football for a man experiencing his first major game. But he too, was badly injured, leaving no right halfbacks.

So Robert E. Lee, Jr., the ex-third string fullback, had the unusual distinction of being the only Hanover man to play the full game against Yale. Now he is back again as a third string fullback, and his case is just one of those where a man gets all the breaks and has his one big day which he will never forget.

A factor which tended to even up the Green and Blue that'afternoon in the Bowl was the. atrocious weather. From start to finish, it rained as hard as possible, the field was a sea of mud, and after the first few minutes players and officials were indiscernible from the press box. Dartmouth started off with such a bang that they played themselves out before the first quarter had ended. They lifted the Blue line off its feet, advanced the ball a goodly distance, but lost it on downs. They held Yale for downs in the shadow of the goal posts, and'then'the thing happened that broke their heart. A bad pass from cen- ter, a fumble by Harris, and before anyone realised it, Capt. Eddy of Yale had scooped the ball up and slid across the goal line. The final score was 18 to 0, and Dartmouth was completely demoralized.