Big Green Teams of the New Era
A REVIEW OF HAPPENINGS OF ATHLETIC NOTE INRECENT SEASONS ALONG THE FOOTBALL FRONT
WHEN DARTMOUTH men in their frenetic forties, especially those in distant zones who've given so many hostages to fortune that they "don't get back often," think of Dartmouth football, they probably remember it in such terms as: Dartmouth 10-Penn State 7; Pennsylvania 7-Dartmouth o; Dartmouth 15-Syracuse 10; Dartmouth 7-West Virginia 7.
They recall it in terms of those bonebreaking dive-tackle touchdowns of the hard-way Cavanaugh system, or that ballbeating hop-shift Fat Spears imported from his extra curricular commingling with the Massilon and Canton professionals. That latter was a great, if decidedly larcenous, innovation. Combined with the fact that it gave the Dartmouth line practically a running charge at the enemy, it was a false starting signal which never once failed to draw an adversary off side. We knew how to get five yards any time we really needed 'em. The quarter merely ended the first of his double digits in five, and the centre held the ball an extra beat before snapping.
It was a cinch until the Rules Committee rightly decreed that such chicanery was in violation of the spirit if not the laws of the pastime and ruled the basis of the Spears system henceforth null and void.
