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Scrappy, Underdog Dartmouth Eleven Drops First Three Games, But Makes Two Opponents Feel Lucky to Win

ONE OF THESE BRIGHT autumn afternoons Dartmouth is going to win a football game. To date (October 18) she has not yet contrived to do so. The first three games have been lost by increasing margins, although the scores by no means tell the whole story. We lost to Holy Cross 13-6; to Penn 12-0; and to Notre Dame 34-0. The third Saturday in October—the weekend we ordinarily go gaily down to Boston for the Harvard game—was spent in silent meditation, in deference to the terminal examinations under the accelerated program. On October 27—which will be after this has gone to press but before you see it—Dartmouth returns to the football wars against Syracuse. Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and Columbia follow in that order. As we work our way gradually back into the Ivy League, we may do better and may even win some of the remaining games. If we play the sort of game we played against Holy Cross and Penn—in which we might very well have won either game handily—we should do all right in our own league. But now to the business.