TOUCH-FOOTBALL

As we sit here attempting to concentrate on this report, there arises from the campus frequent yells and exhortations and we occasionally sneak to the window and then immediately forget all about the literary world. Second year Tuck School is playing First Year in touch-football in one corner and in another a pickup game that has been going for three hours now is still being fiercely waged. We have frequently commented on the progress of intramurals at Dartmouth. It is a department which was' in its infancy when we arrived in Hanover four years ago and which now has an established and important place in undergraduate life. The intramural department is one of the most efficient in College. In each sport the fraternities and dormitories are divided into two sets of leagues. The league winners play each other and the winning dormitory and fraternity eights settle the championship of the college. This fall Phi Kappa Sigma, conspicuous with their own fraternity uniform, repeated their victory of last year by defeating the Dekes in the finals. This game, final like many of the others, see-sawed back and forth with the Phi Kaps tieing the score in the last few seconds of play. In touchfootball, there are no tie scores; the extra period ended with the the victors a scant touchdown ahead of their opponents. This game produces and requires a good deal of cleverness for it is not a matter of heaving the ball into the ozone and hoping your side grabs it. The best teams use a flashy running attack of short basketball passes and occasional long passes.

Nor is the game limited to dorms and fraternities. The Daily Dartmouth Diddlers took on the D. O. C. Rover Boys and after a bloody battle that sent one woodsman to the hospital with -a smashed nose, the hikers came out on the long end of the score. As usual The Dartmouth the next morning credited their team with the victory, a DailyDartmouth tradition which successfully brings their team through each season undefeated. The Dartmouth was to play the Harvard Crimson Board during the Harvard weekend but a pouring rain drove the participants indoors to partake ofrefreshments instead.

W. C. WOLFF '3l With some of his own wood-carvings, which he makes in odd moments after football season when his role as forward-passing halfback keeps him busy. He lives in Brooklyn