Dartmouth Secrets Leak Out

We soon learned that our request was in the worst possible taste, for the week preceding the Maine game had been spent in protecting the few secrets that remained unknown outside of the Green camp. Coach Blaik related a story of how the Dartmouth plays had been offered to Vermont by some unknown person just before the game with the Catamounts, and how Johnny Sabo, Vermont's new coach, had stunned him with this information when the Green coaches dropped around to the visitors' dressing room after the game. Up to the time of the Vermont game daily practice had been open to all but the most suspicious looking characters, and this liberality on the part of the Dartmouth staff had often proved a boomerang in the form of curious spectators getting underfoot.

A system of rigid inspection has consequently been made necessary, and Jack Connolly, new keeper of the one and only gate admitting to Memorial Field, makes one feel that getting past Saint Peter will be a cinch after gaining admittance to the practice field. Canvas has been hoisted to block the view through the South Park Street fence, and daily sessions are now carried on in ample seclusion.

Even with the new restrictions, practice is still open to spectators who are persona grata to Mr. Connolly. If Mr. Connolly proves deaf to one's most urgent pleas, a pass from "Rip" Heneage or Dean Chamberlin, commander-in-chief of Dartmouth's new Black Chamber, will do the trick. Practice will be thrown open to the entire student body on Mondays and Fridays under the new plan. Mr. Chamberlin, who accepted the new sleuthing duties as all a part of the job of being director of public information, succinctly defends Dartmouth's action thus: "Daily practice is absolutely closed at Harvard, Yale and Princeton, and if we are going to play football on their level, we shall have to adopt their precautions."