With Phil Sherman

As the final minutes of the Cornell-Dartmouth game ticked into history out in Ithaca, the realisation came to me that this season would be the hardest one to write, the toughest one to explain and the greatest enigma to us all since a Dartmouth team dropped four major games back in 1926.

But even 1926 was a different color; in that sensational season which saw the Green go down to defeat before Harvard, Yale, Brown and Cornell, our eleven was packed to the brim with a melting pot of various stars, and Eddie Dooley, Bob MacPhail, Myles Lane and their teammates put on hair-raising battles through the entire season with the balance of victory just going the other way.

This year we sat in the press box at Schoellkopf Field thinking of other things. On this same field in 1926 Dartmouth had lost its last game to the Big Red, but that game was a 24-23 affair which saw Capt. Emerson Carey kicking a field goal into the books with only a minute or so to play.

It was different out there this time. For a team which had a world of promise, for an eleven which seemed packed with material, the complete slip to obscurity was amazing. We had seen Dartmouth battle a rejuvenated Pennsylvania team and go down and we had followed Dartmouth in a glorious moral victory at Harvard, and after those two games we were convinced that the Green was the unluckiest team in the East.

But the Yale defeat was bitter, the subsequent records to date show that the win over Dartmouth was the only victory that was Yale's, and now the same thing shows in regard to this Cornell team which soundly trounced the Green by a 21-6 score.

Let's go back a bit and follow the situation through. There was just time enough in the last issue to insert a flash paragraph on the Harvard game, but no mere paragraph could tell the dramatic story of that game in the Stadium and no written word could cover the emotion that the crushing blow of defeat dealt against Dartmouth.

Dartmouth Scores on Harvard JACK HILL OF DARTMOUTH, SHOWN IN END ZONE AFTER SCORING GREEN'S ONLY TOUCHDOWN AGAINST HARVARD IN HARVARD STADIUM, OCTOBER 22. HARVARD WON, 10 TO 7.