Glad To Be Back
[Reprinted from The Dartmouth's extraof Tuesday evening, January 14.]
WELL, IT'S GOOD to be back in Hanover," smiled Dartmouth's new football coach, Tuss McLaughry, as he tilted back in a DCAC chair after a whirlwind tour of Hanover this afternoon.
"You see," said the new coach of the Big Green, "I have been in Hanover many times, I've played squash on your courts, I've yodeled on Mt. Moosilauke, and I've even played golf on your golf course.
"I had no idea that this story would break today. I just came up to see Red Blaik, who is sick in bed with the flu, before fore he left for West Point. When I arrived, I found that the news was out."
Somebody who was milling around Tuss asked him what he thought of his son, Bob, as a football player. Bob McLaughry is a freshman at Dartmouth and was a star plunging fullback on last fall's freshman team.
"I never have seen Bob play football," answered the Indian mentor, "so I wouldn't know. I never saw John play before he came to Brown."
"I have been told that there is some good material to work with up here next year. That's fine."
When queried on the system that he will adopt, McLaughry said that he planned on using the single wing and a balanced line "with variations." "I've known what Red has done up here," he said, "and I'm going to tie in my system with his, leaving the groundwork which he has laid essentially intact. Red and I use about the same system anyway, so the transformation shouldn't be too difficult.
"We will start out next spring on fundamentals, right at the bottom, until I get to know what the team has, and the team gets to know me."
Tuss McLaughry is still in doubt about whom he will select as his assistants. The DCAC has given him a free hand to pick his staff, but since he only made up his own mind last night he hasn't given much thought to that part of the program.
HAS SEEN SCHEDULE
He did see the schedule, though, and he thinks that it is a tough one. "Colgate will be one of the toughest teams in the East," he said. "That comes third on the program, and Georgia will be no pushover. William and Mary has come along well in these last few years and will arrive in Hanover in about the same state of mind that Franklin and Marshall did this year."
