With Phil Sherman

If you look into the record books of 1931, you will find that Dartmouth, in its past three games won one, lost one and tied one. That is what the record book says and that is the cold, impersonal viewpoint of the matter. None too startling and certainly none too successful.

But if we throw the record book aside and look at these games against Yale, Harvard and Cornell we will find a panorama of football which leaves us a little bewildered in mind, unsteady in voice and thoroughly geared in emotion. The record says Yale scored 33 points against Dartmouth and perhaps those who received the returns late were as stunned as those who watched the game to find that Dartmouth also scored 3$ points!

What happened down in the Yale Bowl has left us all a little off balance. It seems that every year I coast through the football season writing the games; some of them are close and thrilling and others are walkaways, but somehow none of them provide the emotional upsets that take place in the Gloomy Bowl. This year's game against Yale was the acme of everything you have heard about in football.

It was a game for the book. A game which pulled you up by your own bootstraps to a climax in which all the breath-taking plays known to football were crammed into a short hour's duration of play and left you weakkneed and hoarse when it was all over.