Following the Big Green Teams
The most potent news-bits of the month are as follows: 1. Jess Hawley will coach no more for Dartmouth.
2. Jackson Cannell is the new head coach of football.
3. After 1929, Brown and Dartmouth will play no more football together.
4. The Dartmouth eleven will go to Palo Alto, California, to meet Stanford University in a 1930 football game, and the Westerners will come east to play Dartmouth in 1931.
While the month of March does not exactly conjure up football thoughts, it is a fact that for a three-week period the whole college as well as the football-loving public were talking about nothing but the gridiron game. The basketball and hockey teams played on through their schedules, but football held the main interest as a rapid succession of startling developments held prominent positions on various metropolitan sporting pages.
The passing of Jess Hawley from the Dartmouth football picture has been predicted and foreseen for several years, and as his business grew and prospered it seemed only a question of time before he would be forced to lay down the directoral reins and give up one of his favorite loves. Hawley had never been bound to Dartmouth by any written contract and his comings and goings each year depended entirely upon him; in fact it is understood that the athletic authorities were as much at sea as the newspaper representatives each year when a football season closed, for they never knew when radio was going to completely engulf football.
Perhaps the imminent chance of losing Jackson Cannell had a great deal to do with the ultimate result. Cannell, one time head coach of Dartmouth football, has been connected with the game as Hawley's right eye for several seasons, and he was such a valuable man that several colleges have made overtures to him at one time or another.
When Hawley sent in his resignation, it was the only natural thing for the office to do to appoint Jack to the position. From our four year position of writing Dartmouth sport news, it appears to us that Jack Cannell is one of the most capable coaches in the East, and that he will step into the higher office, which he once held, with a wealth of practical and technical knowledge which will keep Dartmouth football teams on the same high plane and standard that they enjoyed during the Hawley regime. Jack takes over the job with a host of well wishers backing him and his squad behind him to the last man.
