LINE COACH STAR GUARD

Ellinger, who is 31 years old, entered West Point from Harrisburg, Pa., and was graduated in 1925. He starred at guard on the Army elevens in 1922, 1923 and 1924, and in the fall of 1925 remained at the academy as assistant line coach. He went to Oregon as assistant to Captain John J. McEwan in 1926, and the following year returned to West Point as line coach, thus returning to the academy as football assistant in the same season in which Blaik began his job there. The two civilian aides worked together for seven seasons and will continue their close association in Hanover.

Gustafson, Dartmouth's new backfield assistant, was a star fullback at Pittsburgh in 1924 and 1925, and was graduated from the Pennsylvania institution in 1926. He then went to Virginia Polytechnic Institute as head football coach and remained there for five years until the fall of 1931, when he was recalled to Pittsburgh by Jock Sutherland. As backfield assistant at Pitt for three seasons he played an important role in turning out powerful Panther elevens, and became thoroughly versed in the Warner style of football which Blaik and Ellinger are expected to teach the Dartmouth Indians.

Blaik is the first non-graduate coach at Dartmouth since 1899, when Dr. W. C. Wurtemberg of Yale directed the Big Green eleven. He also has the distinction of being the first outside coach who has not come to Dartmouth from Yale.