President Hopkins Addresses Jubilant Crowd of Students
Mr. Hopkins appears on balcony of his home to greet students celebrating Dartmouth’s victory over the Cornell game. The victory rally that took place immediately after the contest was without equal at the College. The allday-Sunday reactions that consisted of groups of all sizes just collecting all over the campus for discussion of the game and cheers for each of the Dartmouth players were inspiring to behold. But for all-time tops, all-time genuine enthusiasm and expression of Dartmouth's pride in Dartmouth and its football team, from 4 P.M. on Monday to a A.M. on Tuesday was something that we personally wish every Dartmouth alumnus, every person who loves Dartmouth, could have seen." It was Dartmouth letting its hair down to tell the team how proud Dartmouth was of its victory. At midnight three quarters of Dartmouth's undergraduate student body gathered on the Inn corner for the last rally of three days of rallying. There was official notice from anybody that read: Tonight Dartmouth will hold a rally to show the team our respect."
Daitmouth collected, because Dartmouth could not be restrained.
or two hours Dartmouth broke loose as never before. Hundreds of students snake-danced down Main street as they had done countless times before in three days, but this time it was Dartmouth with its heart on its sleeve marching through the town. A small group of the Dartmouth band, some of whom hadn't been allowed to put down their instruments since Saturday night except for brief periods, played Dartmouth songs, with lips so sore the notes were shrill. But Dartmouth didn't care, and neither did the tired musicians.
Students in Hanover who haven't spoken to each other before, became friendly during Dartmouth's victory celebration. A Dartmouth student body that was told on Thursday night before the game at Dartmouth Night, "Don't be afraid to come over to Webster Hall, because their isn't going to be any emotional trash about the glory of Dartmouth" was so emotionally wrought up about Dartmouth that Dartmouth lives again as Dartmouth used to live.
This weekend was not only the date of Dartmouth's greatest football victory. This week-end was the greatest thing that ever happened to Dartmouth, to a Dartmouth that needed something like this to preserve the Dartmouth you as alumni attended. As President Hopkins told a milling throng of undergraduates who marched to his house on Monday night, "I have never before been so proud of being a Dartmouth man." He expressed the thoughts of all who heard him, some of whom had never before realized that it could be an unsurpassed thrill to be proud of being a Dartmouth man.
And when Coach Blaik addressed the Saturday night rally from the porch of the Inn, and told Dartmouth that the finest tradition that Dartmouth had—a tradition that no other college wants so much to hold on to—was its fame as a rugged college, mentally and physically, and "let's keep it that way," the students cheered a man they realized has fought hardest to keep this tradition a sacred part of the College. They also saluted with cheers that echoed from the top of Balch Hill, a man who had sent his team out on the field to prove by their efforts that his own teaching of physical and mental ruggedness pays, and pays well.
Dartmouth is no longer the Dartmouth that it was at 1.29 P.M. on Saturday, November 16.
And now for the last and weirdest of the three stories.
We will be frank in our statement of opinion about Referee Friesell's colossal blunder.
Had Friesell not been questioned by Captain Young on the spot when he decreed that Cornell had another down coming up, we would feel that he was more to be pitied than censored. Furthermore, had not one of his fellow officials pointed out his mistake at the time, there might be room for feeling very, very sorry for the referee. But as the events took place, it is not possible for me to feel that he was merely a victim of tremendous excitement and circumstance. He was told that he was making a mistake when he made it, and what more could any man ask? That he was unwilling to listen to Young's protest and McKenney's judgment puts an entirely different light on the matter. There is, however, no bitterness in any heart in Hanover against Friesell. His wire to Young was sincere and honest.
Where the claim of both sides off-side entered the argument is difficult to trace. The first question asked Friesell in the Davis Field House was: "Was there a bothsides-offside in any of the three rushing plays?"
His answer was an immediate, "No." His error was his argument that Cornell had taken only two rushes instead of three before Norton knocked down Scholl's pass in the end zone.
This was the sole argument after the game. It is indeed unfortunate that there was any necessity to wait until the pictures had been shown to prove that Dartmouth had won. Friesell might have gone down into the Cornell locker room when he was first questioned about his boner, and asked Cornell the simple question, "Did you have two or three running plays in the last series of downs at the end of the game?" If there had been any doubt about a double off-side in the Cornell dressing room, Friesell could have answered this question on the spot. The game then could have been awarded to Dartmouth and with much more gracefulness and control on the referee's part.
This is not intended to detract from Cornell's unprecedented sportsmanship in granting the victory to Dartmouth. The Cornell authorities conducted themselves with glory to Cornell University and intercollegiate football. Dartmouth accepted Cornell's congratulations for victory with equal honors. The Cornell alumni in Hanover Saturday night graciously went about congratulating Dartmouth men for the game their team had won. There was no hedging, no doubt, no ifs; the congratulations were sincere.
Relationships between Dartmouth and Cornell were strengthened by the game. Dartmouth plays no finer team each fall than Cornell; its alumni and undergradutes meet on common ground with no finer people.
And thus we close the game of all games for Dartmouth with a sports writer's a preciation for the excellence of the Cornell team, the ability of its coaching staff, and a final appreciation of the miraculous job the Dartmouth coaching staff—and coach Blaik in his usual manner wants credit given to the entire staff of Backfield Coach Andy Gustafson, Line Coach Harry u linger, and End Coach Specs Moore, to Eddie Chamberlain whose scouting job and inspiration must go down as a classic to the freshman coaching staff who played a key role, to the freshman squad that continued its practice season after its own final game in order to prepare the varsity for its test, to the jayvee squad that worked for three weeks on Cornell plays in order to perfect the varsity, and to the Dartmouth squad, each and every member, for their group effort that makes it impossible to single out any one player for special honors since it was the unity of the players that made their triumph possible.
MR. HOPKINS APPEARS ON BALCONY OF HIS HOME TO GREET STUDENTS CELEBRATING DARTMOUTH'S VICTORY OVER CORNELL.
