About Twenty-Five Years Ago

The '07 football team started its famous season with these scores D 12—Norwich o . . . Do—Vermont o . . . D 6—Tufts o .. . D 10—N. H. State 0.. . D 27—Maine o . . . D 15—Amherst 10 (what was to be the only score against Dartmouth that season). The team was lining up each game something like this—Kennedy, DeAngelis, Saxton, Schildmiller, ends; R. Bankart, Sherwin, Lang, tackles; Baldwin, Rich, Tobin, guards; Brusse, Dillingham, centers; Glaze, Pishon, quarters; Stuart Hawley, Ingersoll, Greenwood, halfbacks; Marks, L. Bankart, fullbacks . . the football season had brought forth Jack Ingersoll from Cleveland and that sturdy trio of westerners Jack Marks, Jess Hawley and Bob Saxton from University of Minnesota who were to make football history at Dartmouth.

Mass. Hall opened for use . . . WebsterHall dedicated . . . E. K. Hall head linesman for Princeton-Yale game . . . about 75 students took advantage of excursion toMontreal . . . "Gabe" Farrell, 1911,awarded Carnegie Hero Medal and $2,000for educational purposes, "Gabe" havingmade three noteworthy rescues in June,1905, May and August, 1906 . . . AllenDrug Co. opened its new store . . . greatest feature being the soda fountain said tobe the finest north of Boston . . . 1910 wonthe Fall Track Meet also the baseball seriesfrom the Freshmen . . . "Lefty" West '10pitching both games ... a favorite hazing stunt was to send Freshmen to Downing's Drug Store, seek out the Deacon personally and ask for cigarettes ... a mean rumor started the rounds in Hanover relative to a staid old faculty member, an ardent Prohibitionist, being a hypocrite . . . people even said "Smell him" . . . the odor revealed something wrong in Denmark and there was no denying that he smelled like an "old soak" . . . years afterward the truth came out . . . "Skeet" Tibbetts, Registrar, and Ed Hunter, Supt. of Buildings, roomed together in the Old Ad Building . . . they obtained a keg of cider for research purposes . . . directly under the closet in which it was kept was another closet ... in which said "Prohibitionist Faculty Member" hung his coat . . . unknown to owners of the cider or coat a Villian poured a little "treated" cider each day through a crack in the floor onto the coat . . . this was typical of the period.

Tony

Jack Bowler The Friendliest Boy in Hanover