Walter McCornack '97

SHORTLY AFTER Walter E. McCornack '97 had visited Dartmouth during a week of the spring season, he died at his home in Chicago.

During his brief stay in Hanover he lived with his son in a college dormitory room, went to classes, roamed the athletic fields with the enthusiasm of a freshman, thoroughly revived his youth once more as so many of Dartmouth's alumni dream of doing in the late years of their lives.

His visit also served Dartmouth. In a year that marked several championship teams on the Dartmouth athletic calendar, his career recalled that there was a history to Dartmouth athletics which the younger generation had not written but to which it had merely added a chapter.

As the first Dartmouth gridster to be named by the late Walter Camp as an All American, as a man who had twice been the captain of a Green eleven in 1895 and 1896, as a man who had been during the seasons of 1901 and 1903 coach of Dartmouth football, as a man who had been a star athlete while weighing less than 150 pounds, his presence on the campus forced the undergraduate generation to realize that Dartmouth had had its glorious eras in athletics before.

Dartmouth's alumni will miss his spirit, his humor, his great interest in Dartmouth. Present day Dartmouth knew him but for a week and came to admire him, both for himself and his position among the star athletes whose names and fame have not been diminished by time or later All-Americans.

R. P. F.