About Twenty Five Years Ago
HORSES AND BUGGIES once more are not an uncommon sight on the roads about Hanover—one might almost think himself transplanted to an autumn day some twenty-five years ago when old stage coaches met the undergrads at the Norwich-Hanover station. And then, with the coming of snow, sleighs and more sleighs— and few automobiles. It may well be this way again—and those weren't bad days, were they? Remember Ed Ferguson, cham- pion of the road leading from Hanover to Leb, the despair of all renting liverymen? The days when a peerade to Boston or Hamp was an event, not just merely weekly routine?
Travel back again in memory, a little over twenty-five years 3go, to January 1915. Coach Margeson made the final cut in the 1918 freshman basketball squad and here are the 20 men who started the season as squad members: G. A. Blood, H. G. Cann, J. S. Carpenter, W. R. Christgau, J. H. Dolson, H. F. Eadie, C. E. Hilliker, R. J. Howard, K. F. Hutchinson, J. A. LeFevre, J. E. O'Donnell, F. L. Rau, E. G. Richmond, E. D. Salisbury, D. S. Sargent, S. J. Teaze, I. D. Tefft, G. A. Valentine, L. E. White Jr. and R. W. Woolworth The season opened with a 32-20 win over Holderness, Howie Cann starring with seven goals from the floor. (Later our one- time classmate went on to play in the Na- tional A. A. U. championships and then coach world-beating fives at N. Y. U.) A freshman get-together meeting, conducted by R. S. Frothingham 'l5, discussed "crib- bing." The 1918 hockey team got ready for an ambitious schedule, with the following puck chasers leading the way: Scully, goal; Cousens, point; Ferguson, cover point; Mc- Donough, right wing; Buffil, center; Bick- ford, left wing; and Geran, rover. (One member of this team, you will recall, went on in later years to achieve national promi- nence as a hockey player, namely Jerry Geran.).... Competition for positions on the editorial board of "The Dartmouth" was keen and these were the Eighteeners who survived the final cut, to fight it out for positions: Opper, Hood, Stanley, Des- sau, Gottschaldt, Knapp, Hesse, Cassebeer —and King Rood and Hal Doty, who didn't show up for the picture reproduced here- with.
Winter Carnival of 1915 saw C. E. Frost 'lB winning the intercollegiate style and distance event against the best college ski- ers, and L. D. Pel ton 'lB was victor in the snowshoe dash. In February the war— class-to-be elected officers: President—H. P. Kennedy; Vice President—W. D. Wilson; Secretary—S. B. Jones; Treasurer—H. B. McDonough; College Club Representative —E. Hazen; Cheerleader—R. A. Aishton.
The Eighteen hockey team dropped a game to Melrose High and on the latter's roster were some names later to become well known in Big Green hockey circles, such as Paisley and Ross. Eighteeners par- ticipating in the game included Earley, Duffil, Bickford, McDonough, Ferguson, Scully, Morse, Storrs and Hazen Fati- mas were heavily advertised in "The Dart- mouth" and were probably the favorite campus cigarette. W. D. Hulbert and A. L. Strout were Eighteeners moving about on the varsity chess team. Frank Cavanaugh signed again for three years as football coach—the greatest one-man coaching staff ever, in the opinion of many of us old timers.
Turn the calendar to March i, 1915 and we discover that E. M. Hopkins 'Ol, em- ployment manager of The Curtis Publish- ing Company, lectured in D Tuck that afternoon on the subject of "Employ- ment." And that Freddie Emery, that grand old English prof, spoke in College Hall, and on the same program A 1 Lucier 'lB fiddled—the same A 1 who, in later years, has been much in the political eye in New Hampshire. War was on in Europe, but the impact had hardly been felt on this side of the Atlantic and college life went on (that spring of 1915) much the same as usual.
CLASS OF '18 HEELERS Among the 1918 men who "Heeled" for"The Dartmouth." Can you name them all?
