Big Green Teams
Election of 1941 Captain Closes Rare Gridiron Season; Coaches Discuss Green Chances in Winter Campaigns
THE LAST ROUND-UP on 1940 football .... the Big Greens proved to one and all at Providence in the last game of the season that the Cornell victory was no fluke by trouncing the Brown Bears, 20-6, with the Indians running wild for the first 20 minutes at a point-a-minute clip Bud Kast, slight sophomore halfback, had his "day" with two touchdown efforts on reverses from single wing to the right—formations that broke in the oldtime manner of the 1936 powerhouse. Kast's first scoring effort came on a perfect play with every Bruin in position to stop the play knocked out of the ball carrier's path It was certainly a fitting highlight to a campaign that started slowly and ended with a Dartmouth team that deserves to be ranked with the best of the Coach Blaik era.
The question has been asked repeatedly, why did the Greens start so poorly and finish in such a tremendous burst of brilliancy? The answer can be oversimplified, but as we look back and recall that the entire right side of the first line was not physically ready to play until mid-season and the starting halfbacks were absolutely without varsity experience at the outset, it is understandable that it required time to mold a unit together that would click as one man The 1940 eleven turned out to be almost an iron-man group in the homestretch, with a glance at the Cornell line-up convincing everyone that the number of subs available for a tough contest were few and far between Speed was never available at any time during the year, but the timing improved Saturday after Saturday and thus made possible the grand finish that accumulated from the Harvard encounter on and earned this eleven a prominent place in Dartmouth football records.
Graduation next June will rob the starting team of ends Bob Krieger and Johnny Kelley, tackles Monty Winship and Bob O'Brien, guards Lou Young, Dan Dacey, and John Guenther, and backs Ray Hall and Don Norton. Returning for next fall will be halfbacks Ray Wolfe, Joe Arico and Bud Kast; Captain-elect Stubby Pearson, center-tackle; Remsen Crego, center-tackle; and ends Harry Gerber, Joe Crowley and Red Krumm, to mention those who gained considerable experience this fall. After writing in the first ALUMNI MAGAZ INE article of this college year that the 1940 Dartmouth team would be better than the 1936 aggregation, and then having to wait for six games to watch this prediction come true, we will skip making any forecast about next fall this far in advance, and hope only that all the candidates counted upon for 1941 are available when Coach Blaik and staff call the boys together next September. A schedule that calls for the Indians to play Amherst, Colgate, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, William knd Mary, Cornell and Georgia—with a first game yet to be announced—will take a lot of football team to manage. Thus we close on football with reluctance, because this has been one of the most memorable seasons of them all. The Cornell victory was called the nation's No. i upset of the year by the sports experts, and the more we see the pictures of the game and gain a fuller appreciation of what the Dartmouth players accomplished, the greater this contest looms as one of the finest ever played on Memorial Field.
And now we present Coaches Ossie Cowles, Eddie Jeremiah and Karl Michael in their second annual appearance as guest artists. Each, in turn, will give his opinion of the seasons that lie ahead for them, and from sources touched a year ago, we feel that this first-hand experting was appreciated last winter. Coach Harry Hillman will be on deck next month and Tommy Dent has promised to write a brief resume of the soccer season, which, although late, will make interesting reading.
COURT SQUAD SEEKING FOURTH STRAIGHT TITLE Back row, left to right—Paul T. Torian '42, Evansville, Ind.; Charles M. Pearson '42,Madison, Minn.; Connor B. Shaw '43, Chicago; James Olsen Jr. '43, Lombard, III.; William W. Parmer '42, Belleville, N. J.; Capt. Gustave T. Broberg Jr. '41, Torrington, Conn.Front row—Lloyd J. Emslie '43, Pelham Manor, N. Y.; George B. Munroe '43, Joliet, Ill.;Stanley D. Skaug '43, Clarkfield, Minn.; Waller R. Daggatt '43, Portland, Ore.; HenryE. Pogue '42, Ft. Thomas, Ky. Missing from the picture are Vincent R. Else '41, Minneapolis, Minn., and John C. Horner '41, Lafaye'tte, Ind.
