Following the Big Green Teams

IMPROVED AERIAL ATTACK AND BRILLIANT CLIMAX RUNNERSDISCLOSED AS DARTMOUTH'S BEST GRIDIRON WEAPONS

WHEN Robert (Bob) MacLeod, veteran right halfback, ran the first play of the 1937 football season nearly the length of Memorial Field for a touchdown, he began to show one of the main points of this fall's Dartmouth attack.

For Dartmouth's wins over Bates, 39-0, over Amherst, 31-7, and over Springfield, 42-0, each displayed that the Indians possess what is known in the trade as climax runners.

So far, all the climaxing has been done by MacLeod, sophomore fullback Bill Hutchinson, junior fullback Colby Howe, and senior halfback Warren King, an old hand at this long-run business.

This much we know, then, even before the major campaign begins. No team can afford to coast on a single play against the 1937 Blaikmen, if the contest is at all close, for bang will go a touchdown, and it will belong to Dartmouth.

When Fred Hollingworth opened the season with a brilliant aerial show against Bates, and continued to throw passes for long gains and even touchdowns against Amherst and Springfield, he began to show the second strength of this fall's Dartmouth attack.

This much we also know now. No defense wiH be able to take too many liberties with the Indians' aerial attack, for it will be a dangerous weapon for the Big Green during the major portion of the 1937 schedule.

After these two points, predicting the success of the Dartmouth eleven is guess work. How the team will withstand the offenses of Brown, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Columbia on successive Saturdays cannot be known at this time.

Bates gave the Big Green defense little or no test. And Amherst and Springfield did little better.

According to the statistics compiled for the first three minor games, only one defensive weakness is at all evident. It is defense against forward passes, for the three little opponents were able to complete 43 per cent of their passes.

Tracing the development of the Dartmouth eleven through the three games gives one an encouraging outlook on the future.

Against Bates, Dartmouth's attack sputtered and halted so much that not one sustained drive for a touchdown was produced. The blocking shown during the initial game was so poor that few could even force themselves to be optimistic over Dartmouth's chances in the "Ivy League" circle.