With Big Green Teams
Barclay, Riddick and Gassiano Return to Football Staff; Hanover Mud Season Finds All Quiet on Sports Front
The only sports news emanating from Dartmouth this past month was in the form of a pair of announcements from the office of William H. McCarter, director of athletics; the first concerning the. varsity football coaching staff which will assist Tuss McLaughry this spring and fall, and the second listing the Big Green's spring contests, which will be found printed in this section.
The coaching line-up for Tuss McLaughry's fourth season in Hanover includes a lot of familiar names. George Barclay, erstwhile Navy officer, is back as line coach; Ray Riddick, also of the Navy, returns as end coach; and Dick Cassiano, who makes it unanimous for the Navy, is again on deck as backfield mentor. Milt Piepul, who started as Dartmouth backfield coach under Earl Brown and kept going with Tuss last season, continues in that role; and Bill Battles, who was end coach last year, now has a slightly different assignment as -assistant line coach.
Barclay, who was line tutor of the Indians for the seasons of 1941 and 1942, coached linemen at Georgia pre-flight school and at Jacksonville Naval Air Station while serving as a lieutenant in the Navy. He was an Ail-American guard at North Carolina in 1934 and recently was selected as a member of the all-time Tarheel eleven. His professional football experience was with Brooklyn in the National League.
Riddick was the 1942 Dartmouth end coach before joining the Navy. He was an All-American end at Fordham and played for the Green Bay Packers for three years. During the war he played regularly on the Saint Mary's preflight eleven and last fall was selected on the all-service All American.
Cassiano, a member of Pitt's celebrated "Dream Backfield" of 1938, previously coached at Dartmouth in 1941 and joined the Navy in 1942. He played two seasons of pro football with the Dodgers.
Piepul, who came to Dartmouth for the season of 1943, was captain of the Notre Dame eleven in 1940 and was selected to a majority of the Ail-American teams. Following graduation he joined the Detroit Lions and also was retained at South Bend as assistant backfield coach.
Battles played for Coach McLaughry at Brown and had professional experience both as an end and tackle with the Chicago Bears before joining the Green staff last year.
Coach McLaughry is stating, without quibbling, that his 1946 assistants make up the best balanced staff he has had since he came to Dartmouth. They also would make a nice nucleus for anybody's football team.
Tuss has called for spring football candidates to report for practice in the gym cage, a summons which doubtless will be answered by approximately one hundred aspirants. He will unquestionably be helped by the return of a number of prewar stalwarts, although not so many as was first expected and hoped. At the present writing, it is too soon even to know who is back and who isn't, so we shall be obliged to tantalize you by begging off until next month on any definitive information on this important subject.
