FOLLOWING THE BIG GREEN TEAMS

At this early stage of the football season, names are about the only facts with which the sports writer can deal. Everything else comes under the heading of those intangibles which make good "fodder" for the gridiron fan but which might as well be discarded when one gets down to the business of predicting Dartmouth's football fortunes. And that is what everyone really wants to know: What sort of a team are we going to have this year? On the basis of names alone—and Dartmouth has an impressive collection—the Big Green is being picked by many as one of the strong teams of the East. This, however, is more of a hope than a conviction with the inner circle in Hanover. Jack Cannell himself admits that this year's squad has more "depth" than those of the past two seasons, and by this he means that the potentialities of the squad are more evenly spread out, that there are more men who show signs of developing into first-class players.

"Who plays where?" the Hanover scribes wanted to know not so many days ago, and Jack Cannell cleared up the puzzle thus: "We don't know; everything is In a state of flux. We are trying to get the right man in the right position, and it requires a lot of testing." This applies more to the backfield than to the line, for after only one major transformation the first two lines are pretty well set. Implied in Coach Cannell's answer, however, is the acknowledgement that the present Big Green squad has unusual promise and that the coaching staff has fairly ample leeway in experimenting to bring it out in full measure.

Despite the natural caution of the coaches, the squad itself seems convinced of a grand destiny. Enthusiasm is always rampant in the opening weeks of practice, before injuries and other unforeseen developments apply the damper, but this year's enthusiasm isn't of the usual sort. With players on the fourth team one day and on the first team the next (and vice versa), everyone is on his toes. The squad and not the team happens to be the Dartmouth football unit for the time being, and there is a wholesale conviction that the Big Green is on its way. The past two seasons have been disappointing—even disastrous from the standpoint of those who deal in scores—but the sore spots have been salved over by the belief that "this is the year." Other squads have thought the same thing and let it go at that, but this corps is out to make it come true.

Outstanding amidst the incessant chatter on Memorial Field is the southern drawl of Captain Phil Glazer, the Memphis tackle, who has sold his teammates the idea that they like everything the coaches can think up. His enthusiasm never runs dry, and he promises to become one of the most inspiring football leaders Dartmouth has had in a long time. Glazer's leadership should be an important factor in the coming campaign, as well as in preserving the healthy state of football in the Hanover hills.

To get back to the subject of names, Glazer heads a group of 13 lettermen who are available this year. Seven veteran backs, including the regular quartet of last year, give Coach Cannell almost two full backfields to start with. Added to these sevenWilbur Powers, Jack Hill, Sammy Fishman, Dave Hedges, George Stangle, Roald Morton and Bill Clark—there are three seasoned reserves in Harry Deckert, Rudy Pacht and Jim Aieta, three upperclass newcomers in Norm Rand, Bob Bennett and Frankie Spain, and a third trio of promising sophomore backs in Jack Kenny, last year's freshman captain, Frank Nairne and Tauno Frigard. Nairne is ineligible at the present time, but it is possible that he will clear up his difficulties by the middle of the season. The present wholesale changing of backs makes the naming of any combination futile, and the most likely outcome is that Coach Cannell will cull from this leading group of ball-carriers two backfields of about equal caliber. The 1933 schedule, with Penn, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and Chicago to be faced in a row, certainly requires at least that many.

With no superfluity of good linemen about, Coach Cannell has made short work of settling a tentative first-string line. All the available lettermen, with the exception of Ray Hulsart, who has been converted from a guard to a tackle, have been drafted for the first line. These are Captain Glazer and Don Hagerman, tackles; Bob Michelet and Irv Silverman, guards; and Bill Embry, left end. Filling in the remaining gaps are Elbert Camp, the only sophomore seemingly sure of a regular job, at right end and Herb Stearns at center. Stearns was third-string center last year, while Camp has been hailed by Pat Holbrook, freshman coach, as the best end prospect he has seen at Dartmouth in a long time. In the second line Coach Cannell has assembled Dick Carpenter and Earl Arthurs, ends; Ray Hulsart and Don Erion, tackles; Bob Lapidus and Bob Sweeney, guards; and Moe Frankel, center. All of these team B linemen have had varsity experience, with the exception of Erion, another sophomore of great promise. Hulsart, Frankel, and Lapidus were members of the second team last season.

Spring practice of last May has given the Big Green squad a noticeable jump in the matter of taking up plays. Coach Cannell launched almost immediately into this year's repertoire, without the customary delay over fundamentals. Outstanding changes in the 1933 system are the dropping to date of last year's shift and the adoption of the single wingback rather than the double wingback formation.

The '33 Leader Phil Glazer, a southern gentleman from Memphis, whose inspiring leadership as captain and smashing line play at right tackle are expected to prove important factors in the Big Green's 1933 campaign.

A Famous Figure Joe Gilman 'O5, whose death September 15 is mourned by a host of friends, as he looked when winning All-America honors at Dartmouth