Following the Big Green Teams

One of the hardest things a team has to face is the fact that someone has dubbed them potential champions. During the football season, when the Dartmouth eleven went to Cambridge to meet Harvard, after having four fine victories to their credit, the Boston papers heralded their arrival by proclaiming them as the next United States champions. Inside factors were not taken into account by the writers, who only saw the team in black and white on the record books.

In a way this football example is comparable to Dolly Stark's basketball team, which at the present writing hasn't the chance of the proverbial snowball to capture the Eastern Intercollegiate League race. There is perhaps the psychological parallel between them and the football team, which had so many well wishers and second guessers.