Lebanon Valley Game

A bit of football news is available at this time, as the announcement has come through devious channels that Dartmouth is to play Lebanon Valley in football this fall, thus completing the schedule.

The usual blast which was expected at these announcements was forthcoming. Undergraduates, not realising the difficulty of scheduling games and not realising the hardships of an all-star schedule, were unanimous in condemning the addition of Lebanon Valley, doubtless harking back to the Allegheny farce of last year. The Dartmouth in a laconic line under the masthead merely stated that "Lebanon Valley has $20 students and 20 professors. It is co-educational."

The scheduling of Lebanon Valley for a football date this fall came as a distinct shock to most Dartmouth football followers, for the first and natural reaction to those whose gridiron knowledge is merely of the surface type was that the Green had picked up another Allegheny in this latest Pennsylvania institution. The bitter memories of the late Allegheny contest still are rampant in the minds of those who saw that game, but at the same time Lebanon Valley has not been a wholly dormant factor in the football situation.

It was in 1927 that Dartmouth had what is known as the Temple scare, and those who remember that game will recall the greatest bit of psychology ever pulled by Jesse Hawley as a head coach. The fact that the Temple boys were completely ambuscaded mentally and financially is neither here nor there, for the main point of the matter was that Temple went down to Brown and beat the Brunonians, 7-0 in their own bailiwick and continued through to an undefeated season save for the Dartmouth 47-point plastering.