Material New and Old
Dartmouth started the season with the veteran backfield combination of Bill Morton, Len Clark, Shep Wolff and Henry Johnson. There was a second backfield which was composed of Bill McCall, and his successor Eddie Toothaker, Aarne Frigard, Bill Brister and Ed Sutton. The second combination was the faster and better passing crowd and it appeared at first as if Jack Cannell had intended to develop the Notre Dame style of first string men and shock troops, but an avalanche of injuries cut this plan short.
As was expected, the freshmen did not send up much varsity material, and only a handful of new faces were inserted in the first two lineups at the beginning of the season. Harold Mackey, as an end, did good work until a twisted leg put him on the shelf. The Clark was out of action and likewise Frigard and McCall were laid up all of the time, so Cannell saw his original plans go astray.
While the freshmen did not send up any outstanding men, two players who have been out of action for a whole year jumped into the fray and turned in great performances. Bill Hoffman, as everyone predicted, was placed at a varsity guard position, displacing the veteran Paul Crehan from the start. Crehan, too valuable a man to leave off the first team, was shifted to tackle where everything was fine for everyone concerned, for by his play to date Crehan has the makings of a fine tackle.
The other fellow was Eddie Toothaker. This young lad from Denver, who used to show up the varsity baseball players when he himself was ineligible, brought unusual verve and dash to the varsity as a quarterback against Boston University and at present looks like a valuable man.
But what impresses most about this Dartmouth team is that the substitutes carry on and on when their varsity predecessors have left the field. Too often an attack slackens and interest lags when the substitutes begin to pour on the field, but not so this year. The second and third string men perform like veterans, and we always write our stories with an eye to Stanford, for that is what will decide that game; substitutes and more of them.
