IN MEMORIAM

Death has taken two fine athletes who once wore the Green. Ray Comerford, one of the great pitching stars on the 1925 baseball team, was drowned while trying to save a boy in a New Hampshire lake this summer.

Comerford will be remembered as a member of a famous trio which included Foster Edwards and Speedy Fleet, a trio which pitched Dartmouth to one of her finest sea sons. His passing, sad as it may be, was typical of the man and was perhaps his finest action while on earth.

The shocking news that Tommy Longnecker was killed in an automobile accident came to us one night while we were talking about football prospects for this fall.

It left us looking down into the typewriter keys which had dashed off so many football stories and wondering why a Fate must be so cruel. Tommy was one of my friends. I can remember a drive we took to Vermont one football day in 1929 and he was so enthusiastic over the coming season. We talked about the great day he had had against Cornell the year before, and we joked about the fact that A1 Marsters seemed to have the quarterback job cinched, but Tommy in a joking way was sure that he would be "in there" before the season was out.

The crashing Blow of that Yale game of 1929 was one of the bitterest ever dealt to a football player. It was one of the most devastating situations for a man to find himself in, and Tommy bore the full brunt of alumni and undergraduate discussion after the game. The outstretched hand of Jack Cannell, who greeted him as he trudged weary and bowed from the field, was a nagnificent gesture but to the onlooking thousands Tommy was the "man who lost the game." Intercollegiate football can be heart breaking to a man, and it is a shame that we do not have a different viewpoint on the game.

Tommy came back to New Haven last fall to watch his successors carry on and again we talked football before the game in Hartford. It is the passing of a hero. It takes far more heroics to go through what Tommy did than to be paraded as an all-American. I should like to see a memorial erected in Hanover to Tommy Longnecker.

S. W. YUDICKY '32 Captain of this year's team. He plays end and his home is in Nashua, N. H