Bates and B. U. Lose

Now about the football team. In the subsequent game with Bates, Dave Morey's boys surprised everyone by holding Dartmouth to a 20-0 score, but reserved the biggest surprise for their next game when they defeated Norwich by a meagre 7-0! So that is one for the books, and I wonder just what happened to the Dartmouth offense that day against Bates, for the following week the Big Green broke Al Marsters' heart by a 74-0 win over his Boston University team in a game which produced the second largest score of Dartmouth football history.

There is not much need for separate commentaries on these games, for they all produced the same results and they all saw the Dartmouth attack gradually branch out until it looked mighty powerful. The most serious loss to the Dartmouth team has been the unavailability of Wild Bill McCall for any of these games and Dartmouth's best and flashiest ball player has been forced to sit on the sidelines during the first part of the season with an injured leg. The only concern is that a football tradition will naturally grow up around Wild Bill while he is inactive and possibly one will expect too much from this slight fellow who was a hero last year when the going was hardest.

At this writing Len Clark is indefinitely out of the game with what looks dangerously like water on the knee. It will be a shame if Clark is lost to the team the way Dick Black was put out of action for two years, for Len is one of those unsung heroes who do the cleaning out for the big fellows without being flashy themselves. It will be recalled that Len was taken to the hospital on the eve of the Yale game last year after he had gamely tried to conceal the fact that he had suffered broken ribs against Harvard, and I have always felt that one of the prime reasons why the Dartmouth attack against Yale in 1929 was not a smooth working affair in the first half was that Clark was out of the game. Like Britton was to Grange, Clark was to Marsters; ever an unsung shadow and a valuable football companion-in-arms.