With Big Green Teams

Dartmouth Launches Gridiron Season with Bright Prospects; V-12 Stars from Other Colleges Provide Unusual Interest

DARTMOUTH ATHLETIC INTEREST has taken a new upswing within the past few weeks as the first shades of cold weather announce the fall gridiron sport and a promising Big Green football team makes ready for action against seven strong opponents this fall.

Coach Earl Brown, who took over the reins as head coach only this year, has put his fifty-man squad in top shape for the seven-game season which got underway Sunday, September 26, against Holy Cross. This year's schedule also includes U. S. Coast Guard Academy, Pennsylvania, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, and Princeton.

Although pre-season predictions are always risky, and especially this year in view of the many uncertainties, the Big Green football eleven this fall shapes up to be a strong offensive team with a good running attack and plenty of power. On the defense the Indians are only fair, but they will certainly improve as the season progresses.

According to the wiser moguls of the sporting world, Dartmouth is supposed to have a team "second only to the Chicago Bears," as one writer puts it. Dartmouth will have a good football season, but too many uncertainties and menacing hurdles dot the path to make any such optimistic predictions.

Seven lettermen from last fall's Big Green eleven have returned to play for the Indians this year, with at least three of them assured of a starting berth. Jack Monahan will be back at his regular left end post, while Norman Brown is slated to hold his old center position. Roger Antaya from Worcester, Mass., will again fill the right guard slot which he handled for the past two years.

Allen Russell, another regular Dartmouth lineman, appears to have clinched the right end post, although this is only his first year to play regularly with the varsity. Russell was an end on the freshman eleven two years ago, but was a victim of injuries and did not see much action last fall. '

Harold Bowman, husky reserve center last fall, has been shifted to the quarterback position which he played in high school, and is giving Don Kasprzak, a Columbia veteran, a hard fight for the starting berth at that position. Jack Sayers and Larry Bartnick, freshman sensations on the 1942 eleven, are both due to see plenty of action in the Big Green backfield this fall.

Joe Andrejco, who was captain-elect of the Fordham eleven, appears to be the most powerful offensive weapon of the Indians this year. However, this hard-running halfback will be available to the Big Green eleven for only the first three games inasmuch as he will be detached from the Dartmouth V-12 Unit at the close of the current semester in October. Ed Flemming, capable reserve halfback, center Ed Gustafson, and linemen Broni Macys and Frank Sposato will also leave the 1943 eleven via this same route.

Red Mangene, tricky speedster from Boston College, will pair off with Andrejco at the other halfback position. The former B.C. back will be another hard man to stop this fall, and is one of the most dangerous open field runners to be seen in these parts in a long time.

Don Kasprzak, understudy to Paul Governali at Columbia last fall, appears to be slightly out in front of Dartmouth's Hal Bowman and Jack Sayers in the race for the quarterback post. Kasprzak is a good field general and an accurate passer, and will probably be the main cog in the Indians' aerial offensive this fall.

Alex Wizbicki, formerly of Holy Cross, was recently shifted from right halfback to the fullback spot to give added strength to that department. Freshman Hal Clayton is also being groomed for that position, and with more experience this former Andover athlete will shape up to be an answer to any coach's prayer. The powerful fullback from Chelmsford, Mass., stands over six feet and tips the scale at 200 pounds. Johnny Burroughs, varsity letterman and quarterback on the Dartmouth eleven last fall, was also shifted to fullback, and is likely to see plenty of action at this berth this fall.

Among the promising reserve backs who will also figure prominently in the Big Green football picture this, fall are Bill West and fullback Ed Grygiel. Both are freshmen in the V-ia program, and thus ineligible for intercollegiate athletics until the opening of their second term next month. West was the outstanding schoolboy back in the State of Massachusetts last year, while Grygiel is a four-year high school sensation from New Hartford, N. Y. Bobb Slattery, another freshman, is enrolled in the civilian college and is therefore eligible. Slattery was captain of three sports at Montpelier, Vt., high school, and on the all-state teams in both football and basketball for two seasons.

On the line the two wing posts are being held down by regular Dartmouth athletes, A 1 Russell and Jack Monahan. Jim Landrigan, six-foot-four-inch giant from Holy Cross, and George Evans, a 210-pounder from Mt. Union College in Ohio, are at the tackle posts. Capable reserves are Art Vorys, freshman football captain at Williams, Broni Macys and Mel Downey from Holy Cross, and Jack Teague, who has been on active duty with the Navy since November 1942.

Rog Antaya is back at his regular guard post, while Don Alvarez of Wisconsin appears to have the top ranking for the left guard position. Martie Fay of Manhattan, Art Young from Springfield, Charlie Bodley, a member of the Dartmouth squad last fall, and B.C.'s Frank Sposato will all be Tsvailable for reserve duty.

• Another very promising guard candidate is Jack Young, brother of Lou Young, Dartmouth football captain during the 1940 season. Jack is a freshman in the civilian college, and will definitely prove to be an important cog in the Dartmouth football machine this fall. He is a graduate of Lower Merion High school at Narbeth, Pa., where he was a three sport letterwinner, captain of the football team, and a first team guard on the all-state eleven.

The center position again shapes up to be the big question mark of the Big Green eleven. With a full year of varsity experience behind him, Norm Brown will undoubtedly prove to be a dependable center, but the Big Green pivot man was bothered with an injured leg last year which may trouble him again this fall. Second string center Ed Gustafson of George Washington University is scheduled to be transferred in October, while the only other center on the squad, Warren Anderson from Mass. State, has had just one year of college experience.

So much for the Dartmouth football picture. Although the gridiron sport naturally occupies the spotlight during this season, other Big Green teams are also active this fall.

Coach Tom Dent has arranged a sevengame schedule for his soccer squad which got under way on Chase Field on September 17 when Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute defeated the Indians, 3-0. Jim Pert of Tenafly, N. J., was recently elected captain of the Big Green hooters for the coming year. Pert was one of the stars of the eleven last fall, and is the brother of captain-elect George Pert who is now on active duty with the Marines.

Don Burnham, Dartmouth's ace miler and one-man track team, was named captain of the Big Green cross-country squad for the second consecutive year. With several veteran harriers from other colleges now stationed here with the V-12 unit, it appears as though Dartmouth will once again have a strong cross-country squad. Coach Harry Hillman has already arranged a series of several meets for the Big Green hill and dalers.

Down on the Connecticut several rowing enthusiasts, led by Dick Hunter, former oarsman on the Columbia crew, are reviving the Dartmouth Rowing Club, and holding regular afternoon workouts. Although no intercollegiate competition has been arranged for this season, intrasquad races have been scheduled. If the interest continues, plans will be made for Dartmouth's representation in intercollegiate meets next spring.

In retrospect, Coach Jeff Tesreau's baseball nine finished up a reasonably successfull summer diamond campaign two weeks ago with a spectacular 2-1 victory over the Worcester Nor tons, one of the outstanding semi-pro clubs in this area. Leading hurlers 011 the 1943 nine were Harper Gerry, former Holy Cross star, and Ben Zecker, fast ball right-hander from Colby College. Although the Indians' hitting power was definitely on the weak side, Captain Stan Zarod, first baseman Chuck Sweeney, and right fielder Jimmie Curren were the leading batters.

During the 1943 summer campaign the Indians won seven, dropped three, and tied one over their eleven game schedule. The Big Green registered two victories over both Grenier Field and the Claremont Moose, and one each over Middlebury, the Nortons, and the Colored All-Stars. Decisions were dropped to Fort Devens, Holy Cross, and the Nortons, while the single tie game was played with Claremont.

YOUTHFUL GRIDIRON DIRECTORATE of Dartmouth's 1943 eleven includes, left to right, Backfield Coach Milt Piepul, Head Coach Earl Brown, and Line Coach John Dell Isola.

FORDHAM'S LOSS is Dartmouth's gain in the case of Joe Andrejco, captain-elect of the Rams, who is a Big Green backfield star. He is a V- 1 2 Marine trainee.

HAL BOWMAN, freshman center of last season, who has been converted to a quarterback by Coach Brown. He is a Navy trainee and lives in Santa Barbara, Calif.