JUST FOR A CHANGE
The rampant dissatisfaction concerning Dartmouth athletics felt last semester has abated considerably. The coming of Earl Blaik, whom the Press Club devils will persist in calling "Red," and of spring football practice, has eased most of the cankers left from the previous season. The boys are surprisingly optimistic; and it is generally felt that Blaik will ably perpetuate Dartmouth's traditions about the relativity of the game to the College. Most important of all, so the legend goes, perhaps he will be the man to direct the Green at last to a victory over that college at New Haven.
The cup that really cheered, of course, was Dartmouth's first Hockey Championship. The most comforting fact of all about this was that Hanover had shuddered under the severest winter in years throughout the season, and so the boys were at last able to say, with some conviction, that Dartmouth's former failures have been due all along to an insufficiency of ice. A few more years of victory and they may be able to say "Big Four" with a straight face.
A promising increase of interest and participation in intramural athletics have manifested themselves through the fall and winter, Dartmouth actually furnishing stiff opposition in various fields to Harvard House teams which visited Hanover. This is the beginning—and it may take long years—but eventually the big-gate games will have to go in the face of the collegewide demands for general participation in all sports.
