Brown and Dartmouth
The Brown Alumni Monthly for March comments editorially on the cessation of football relations between Brown and Dartmouth, to take effect in 1930:
"As the Monthly goes to press the announcement is made that Brown and Dartmouth will not meet on the gridiron in 1930 or 1931. The initiative in this break, which is an entirely friendly discontinuance of gridiron relations, comes from Hanover.
"Dartmouth is taking on a California university, it appears, for a game-and-game arrangement, which means one contest in the East and the other in the West, during the next two years. Accordingly it desires to give up, for the time being at least, its meetings with Brown, though in other sports the old amiable relations between the two institutions will go on.
"It is many a long day since Brown and Dartmouth were "natural" rivals, in the accepted sense of the word, with each looking forward to its game with the other as the great final match of the year. In fact the far-northern situation of Hanover precludes a final game there. To get around this difficulty the two colleges used to meet at Springfield, Boston or Providence. We regret that there is to be no game with the Green next year or the year after, yet there should be no grave difficulty in arranging attractive schedules for both seasons.
"In 1930 we shall have both Yale and Princeton on our list, with Syracuse also arranged for, and presumably Colgate. In 1931 Yale is to trek to Chicago, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Alonzo A. Stagg's going there as football coach. (Stagg is an '88 Yale man), and for that reason Brown will not be on the Yale list that year, Chicago getting our usual date; but we see no reason to suppose that there will be more than a brief interruption in the relations of the Brown and Blue. Meanwhile we have a twoyear agreement with Princeton for 1929 and 1930, though both games are to be played on the New Jersey campus.
"It is the opinion of the Alumni Monthly that the absence of Dartmouth from the Brown schedule should be taken as an opportunity to introduce a number of new opponents. Since it has come to be the fashion to play inter-sectional games, we hope that Brown will arrange for a game-and-game arrangement with one or more of these. Yale proposes to repay Georgia's visits by an early visit to the Cracker State. Dartmouth went last year to Northwestern at Evanston, and is going shortly to California (where Brown, by the way, went as long ago as 1914 for a new Year's contest with Washington State), and where Harvard has been.
"We suggest further the possible availability of such opponents as Cornell, Columbia, Army, Navy, and Pennsylvania."
