"SANE OPTIMISM"

At this writing Dartmouth's 1934 football team has not been defeated, but we have not yet played Harvard .... or Yale or Princeton. Hopes run high, however, and gridiron interest is at its highest point in many seasons. Visiting newspaper men and returning alumni (among others Al Marsters and Bill McCall) talk with enthusiasm of the new coaching staff and the progress they have made. The coaches themselves, however, are not liberal with optimism. "Inexperienced players," their "first year" .... "tough opponents" all must be taken into consideration, and a feeling of "sane optimism" adopted, they argue. Or, as Bill Cunningham remarked in an article written for The Dartmouth, we should "keep our shirts on, and hope for, not expect, miracles."