Class of 1920
Members of the class will be interested in an article which appeared in a recent issue of THE DARTMOUTH, from which the following is taken:
"We asked Bill O'Neill, veteran caretakerof the coaches' and players' quarters in thegym and in recent years the Davis FieldHouse, 'Who in your estimation was thebest all-round athlete that ever wore theGreen?'"
After a few minutes of mental reminiscing through two decades his face lighted up and the answer burst forth:
"I think without a doubt the greatest boyof them all was Jim Robertson, who playedback in 1919. He was captain of the footballteam two years and captain of the baseballteam for two years. He was so versatile thatwithout any doubt he could have made aposition on any team during his collegeyears. For instance, one spring during thebaseball season he walked over to the trackfield, picked up a javelin and came withininches of the college record. He was big,around 200, and plenty fast.
"The one instance I will never forget washis play in the Colgate-Dartmouth gameout there on the field in 1919. Colgate inthe first half was leading us 7-0. It was thefirst year that 'Fat' Spears was coachinghere, and he and the team trooped into thetraining room feeling pretty low. Spearstried to talk to the players, but, brokedown. Major Cavanaugh, who had leftDartmouth the year before to coach BostonCollege, had come up to Hanover for thegame, and he asked Spears to let him havea minute with the boys.
"And in a few minutes Cav could say agreat deal. He was the real master of thespoken word when it came to dressingdown a squad. Bill Cunningham, SwedeYoungstrom, Gus Sonnenberg, Jim Robertson, and others were on that team.
"Dartmouth was an entirely differentteam. Finally after threatening Colgate'sgoal several times, Swede Youngstromblocked a kick and scored six points. Theground that day was a mire of mud, andhay had been spread about to make anyfooting at all possible.
"Youngstrom's score had come late, andthere was barely 30 seconds left in thegame. It certainly didn't look so good, withthe footing and everything considered.However, Jim Robertson drew back to kickthe goal, the slippery ball caused him tofumble a bit, but with all the calmness inthe world he side-stepped two Colgate linemen and booted the ball plumb throughthe uprights."
Did you notice in the last issue of the MAGAZINE under "News From Alumni Clubs" that Zack Jordan is now living in Los Angeles and is in the investment business? He addressed the local association recently on, "The place of athletics in thecollege curriculum." My only comment on this is that his name was mentioned twice both times as being a member of '2l. I'll grant that '2l could stand a little buildingup, but why should it be at our expense?
Pab Sample is still going big guns. His latest triumph was winning the Temple Medal for the best oil painting at the 131 st annual exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. His prize-winning subject was "Miners Resting."
Mel Merritt has crashed the financial field and is now a general partner in the firm of H. C. Wainwright & Cos., Boston and New York.
If we were taking History 12, a course dealing with the history of the United States since 1865, one of the textbooks would be by Art Foley. This work recently appeared and consists of supplementary chapters to the late Charles R. Lingley's book, "Since the Civil War." Art's contributions were to add four new chapters, bringing the story up through last spring, plus certain revisions which brought the bibliography up to date.
Hib Richter continues to be newsworthy. First, an appointment as assistant district attorney (Class Notes, Jan. '36), and now the proud father of a son, David Farrar, born January 3.
The Alumni Records Office reports that: John Parsons has moved to 842 Main St., Woburn, Mass Charlie Cruikshank can now be located at 521 Fiske Ave., Detroit. .... Jim Stark is assistant floor superintendent at Abraham & Straus' in Brooklyn. He is living at 41 43d St., Sunnyside, L. I.
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