Following the Big Green Teams

BASKETBALL AND HOCKEY TEAMS DROP 14 OUT OF 18 CONTESTS;NORWICH OFF FOOTBALL SCHEDULE; NEW END COACH NAMED

EDITOR'S NOTE: For this issue PatrickO'Sheel '37, of Leonia, N. J., has kindlyconsented to pinch-hit as sports editor forWhitey Fuller, who is taking time out inDick's House. O'Sheel was one of the twosports editors of The Dartmouth for 1936- 37 and provided one of the features of thestudent "daily with his column "On theGreensward."

ILL FORTUNE—in large measure—has finally caught up with Eleazar's Indian. In the month beginning with Christmas holidays and ending with the cessation of classes on January 16, Dartmouth's hockey and basketball teams faced eighteen opponents and could hang up a meager four scalps as a combined total.

Before relating the story of this latest demise of the Green colors, it behooves us to change the subject for a moment and consider the newly released football schedule for 1937. Not totally unexpected was the Athletic Council's action in replacing Norwich as the opening-game rival on the Green card, with Bates (coached by Dave Morey '13) receiving the initial date.

Norwich and Dartmouth—traditional rivals from 'way back—first met on the gridiron in 1905, and have since run the total up to twenty-five meetings. The rival elevens met 1905-1907, 1911-1912, 1914, before maintaining the unbroken string which runs from 1918 to the present. The gallant Cadets have opened the season at Hanover ever since 1920, and the display of the uniformed Norwich student body as well as the courageous play of their elevens have added a flavor of tradition that has come to overbalance the stature of the game as a football contest. Dartmouth has won every one of the twenty-five meetings and, though Norwich threw a scare into the Indians in 1966 when they lost by only 5-0, the scores have been overwhelming in the later years of the rivalry.