The Old-Time Religion

The Columbia game left the team and the student body in a mire of despondency. We who had been writing football deplored the apathy and lack of spirit on the Dartmouth campus. But suddenly there was a rebirth of the old-time religion which broke just before the team left for New Haven, and an oldfashioned rally was held on the campus.

I have always been a great believer in psychology and emotion as connected with football. I do not believe that a team as a machine has its full complement of ability and power to play winning football. The ringing voice of Jackson Cannell sounding on the Dartmouth campus in the evening did more to bolster Dartmouth's hopes against Yale, and the cheers of two thousand undergraduates who circled a blazing fire was the story within the story of the Yale game.

Dartmouth left the field at the end of the half down in New Haven trailing by a 26-10 score. Yale had outplayed the Green during that time and had scored more points up to half time than any Yale team had scored on Dartmouth for a full game since 1896. Yet when the Dartmouth team left the field, they left to one of the greatest ovations ever accorded a team, winning or losing, and I am pleased to believe that this accolade did more to bring about a Dartmouth recoup of luck than any one factor.