Looking Ahead

It is all too obvious that how Dartmouth's football team will fare the remainder of this fall with the "Ivy League" foes directly ahead depends not only on such things as the great determination the Indians have shown, but also on the strength of the opposition that the Indians must face.

We were about to say that all we know about the calibre of Dartmouth's future opponents is what we read in the papers, but this is not entirely the case. We aren't qualified to the extent of having seen Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Stanford in action, which helps, but we do have, however, several channels of information that we will draw upon rather freely, if subconsiously.

Dartmouth will have to play better than it has even dreamed of playing before, to win remaining games, but it can be done.

At New Haven, Yale has surprised even its most ardent admirers by winning over Columbia and playing Pennsylvania to a standstill even in a one touchdown setback. One of the chief factors in the rise of this Yale eleven has been its strength from tackle to tackle, which is the exact place coaches like to have it, if they could wish strong points into their lineups. No eleven with a strong line is to be ignored for long, and certainly nobody is ignoring Yale now that the season is with us and the pre-season discussions are mere memories. Some of them the experts wish they, and the public, would forget. The DartmouthYale game will be full of its usual thrills and heartbreaks, that much is almost certain. I would say that Dartmouth has a chance, actually a better chance than against Harvard, should the breaks of the Bowl fall with the Green rather than against it.

Princeton, regarded as one of the "Ivy League's" championship contenders at the season's start, discovered that Cornell is not to be denied. However the Tigers seem to have suffered from something resembling stagefright in the first half, only to return in the second stanza and prove to the football world that Princeton is, and will be, a foe of no mean power. Princeton will also improve as the campaign draws along, but then, too, so will Dartmouth.

With the arrival of Cornell on Memorial field, Dartmouth will face its toughest opponent of the season, and we are well aware that the others will be tough enough as it is.

Last year's really great Dartmouth team did remarkably well to hold Cornell to a 14-7 score, and if this year's Dartmouth eleven can dig in with the same refusal to crack under any circumstance, House Party guests are liable to see a whale of a football game until superior numbers and constant hammerings by powerful gridsters wear Dartmouth into submission.

All we can offer concerning Stanford is that they have the uncomfortable habit of improving rapidly at the end of the season just in time to play Dartmouth. In 1931 Stanford came to the East with anything but an impressive record, and went back to the Pacific coast with a 32-6 victory and the plaudits o£ the Eastern fans ringing in their ears. Last year Stanford also had a record that did not seem to indicate their power and strength, but against Dartmouth they were all too strong. So your o-uess is as good as the next fellow's. We reFuse to believe that the Stanford Indians won't be most difficult to handle, for my vote goes to any of the Pacific coast teams when it comes to the size of the players and the bull-strength of their gridsters.

In all, it is a picture that does not allow for a single Dartmouth letdown. We wish to restate the case for Dartmouth's chances, however, since the convincing proof shows that it is a scrappy ball club.

Dartmouth's A-i, All-American, best-in- the-land coaching staff has been racing against time since September 11. Every day that passes by the milestone that marks off today from yesterday is money in the bank to the Big Green, for every practice session finds the coaches improving their team as no other staff in America could do it, and every game gives the Indians an extra push forward.

Today, for example, it is not possible to compare the Dartmouth eleven with the Indians of the St. Lawrence contest. Three weeks from now it will be apparent that Dartmouth has made progress so obvious that it will be difficult to look back and remember the flaws of yesterday. A coach's work is never done, but it is done better and faster by our coaches than in any college in the country, and if this can be debated, it would be impossible to convince Dartmouth that it was even open to argument. Nobody but a moron would expect any coaching staff to take a squad any further than the limits of its capacity, but you and I know that Coach Blaik and his assistants will take the Dartmouth squad right to that limit, and for this reason time is of the utmost value to the present Indians. Teams that might have beaten Dartmouth with ease early in the campaign will have an increasingly tougher job to turn the trick, of that we are absolutely, positively certain.

ATHLETIC PUBLICIST IN NATIVE HABITAT Whitey Fuller '37, director of Dartmouth's athletic publicity, photographed in theMemorial Field press box. Rodger Harrison '39 is at his right.