FOOTBALL FORECAST
This is the season for football predictions. By the time this family publication reaches the living room table, you sport lovers will have been deluged with prognostications concerning the prospects of every institution in the football spectrum-from Slippery Rock Teachers to Notre Dame. Those of you who live within television range of New York and Boston may even hear something about the comparative chances of Dartmouth. The Ivy League is not yet a legal entity, but it is very much a de facto organization in the minds of the metropolitan press. Hence you will hear that Pennsylvania has another powerhouse, that Yale has a terrific backfield and seven dwarfs in the line, that Princeton is prepared to sweep to the Big Three championship again, and that Cornell is an unknown quantity. So, you will also hear, is Dartmouth.
On the matter of predictions, however, your correspondent has lost his crystal ball. With a schedule including (in this order) Pennsylvania, Holy Cross, Colgate, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, and Princeton, anyone would be rash indeed to attempt any predictions as to where the Big Green would be when the smoke clears away in November. What follows, then, will be a sober attempt to bring you up to date on the personnel.of the 1948 squad, as constituted at the opening of practice. Phis communication will probably reach you on or about October 2, on which date Dartmouth inaugurates its season with a breather against Penn. There will undoubtedly be some changes in the situation as it now exists. But we can't help that.
Coach Tuss McLaughry is fortunate in having the same coaching staff that tutored a sophomore team last fall to a record of four wins (Syracuse, Brown, Harvard, and Cornell), four losses (Pennsylvania, Yale, Columbia, and Princeton) and one tie (Holy Cross). This year the Green linemen will be instructed by big John Dell Isola, who learned his football at Fordham and with the New York Giants, and who has few peers as a morale and line builder. Milt Piepul will coach the backs in the intricacies of the T formation, which he learned at Notre Dame and with the Detroit Lions. Elmer Lampe, head coach of basketball, will handle the ends. As some of you old Greens may know, Lampe played end on the Chicago team which Dartmouth defeated back in the brave days of 1925. Bill Battles of Brown and the Chicago Bears will act as assistant line coach and will handle much of the scouting. As an addition to the staff, Jules Alphonse will coach the Junior Varsity, in the style to which he became accustomed while playing in the backfield of the great Minnesota teams of 1933 and 1934. Meryll Frost and Art Young will coach the freshmen again, dealing with the backs and linemen respectively. Meryll has received a three months' leave of absence from his position with the Bay State Society for the Crippled and Handicapped.
HANOVER KIDS AND DOGS lend moral support to aspiring football candidates as Freshman Coach Art Young leads a calisthenics drill on Chase Field during preparations for the opening game with Penn.
NEW DCAC PUBLICIST: Roger K. Wolbarst '43, former "Washington Post" sports wri'er, has been in charge of athletic pub'icity for the Big Green since Sept. 1. He succeeded Robert P. "Whitey" Fuller '37, who has joined the staff of "Ski News."
