THE CENTERS

Dartmouth is extremely fortunate that the rules prescribe only one center at a time, because we have only one. That one is George Schreck, and if anything happens to him this fall it will be a case of Katy bar the door. Your correspondent does not maintain that Schreck is the greatest center in the United States, nor the greatest Dartmouth has ever had. The point I am making is that Schreck is probably the most indispensable single cog in the grid machine Coach McLaughry is laboriously fashioning. Playing all but eight minutes in nine games last fall, Schreck will presumably be called upon to repeat his iron man performance. His rugged 197 pounds will thus absorb considerable punishment on several foreign fields. The man who has the unenviable assignment of filling in for Schreck will probably be Paul Staley, regular center on last year's freshman team. He is as yet untried in varsity competition and his 190 pounds are a bit light for this league. Craig Murphy, a converted tackle from the freshman team, will also operate from the pivot post, as will Phil Brown from the jayvees. But if Josh Davis or Mutt Ray are not otherwise occupied this fall, they might find steady employment for a couple of months.

1948 DARTMOUTH FOOTBALL COACHING STAFF: Left tp "right, Trainer Tony Dougal, Line Coach John Dell Isola, Head Coach Tuss McLaughry, End Coach Elmer Lampe, Junior Varsity Coach Jules Alphonse, Assistant Line Coach Bill Battles, Backfield Coach Milt Piepul and Freshman Coach Meryll Frost. A former Minnesota star and University of Connecticut coach, Alphonse is the lone newcomer to the coaching staff.