1921
The impending deadline for these notes (October 5), a beautiful fall afternoon and an attempt to do some of the chores while trying to listen to the affair at Franklin Field and the baseball at Yankee Stadium, ended in a complete fiasco. Dartmouth and the Red Sox lost and not even one storm window got hung. For no particular reason, we got to thinking about the fall of 1919, which, believe it or not, was 30 years ago .... our junior year. There sure have been a lot of changes since those days but the characters and games are unforgetable. Do you remember that season? Coach "Fat" Spears was reputed to be able to inhale smoke from the biggest and blackest cigar in Hanover at the library and saunter to the Gym steps without exhaling. We never saw him do it, but who could doubt that he could? The squad was just back from the wars and football was just another form of mayhem without artillery. Even at this distance they were a formidable aggregation. Ends, Laddie Myers and Guy Cogswell; tackles, Gus Sonnenberg and Cuddy Murphy; Guards Norm Crisp and Swede Youngstrom; center, Bill Cunningham; quarterback and Captain, Jack Cannell; left half, Jim Robertson; right half, Pat Holbrook and fullbacks, Zack Jordan and Johnnie Shelburne. They opened on September 27 and took Springfield 40-0; then Norwich fell 13-0 on October 4 and Mass. State 27-7 October 18. The Penn State hopes of an unbeaten season took a beating the next week at the Sesquicentennial observance. In spite of a run-back of the opening kickoff for a touchdown by Penn State's great halfback, Dartmouth only allowed two first downs all afternoon and won 19-13. On October 25 at the Polo Grounds, they gained recognition as one of the top teams of the East by taking Cornell 9-0. Swede Youngstrom blocked a punt and Jim Robertson kicked a field goal, from mid-field to make it a perfect afternoon for the Green. For most of us the season reached its peak November 1 with Colgate. The records tell of a "huge crowd of 5,000 spectators" for this Hanover classic. The field was soggy with a small pond at one end from heavy rains all week, the odds even, with everybody betting their shirts. You remember what happened. It was all Colgate the first half, with their scores made by passing from the ten after a march sparked by the great Gillo in the first period. It was 7-0 Colgate at half-time. Dartmouth came back strong but the bid for a score was frustrated until Swede blocked a punt in the last minute of play and made it a touchdown. Will you ever forget that kick-out and Jim Robertson's goal from an impossible angle that hit the cross-bar and fell over to tie the score? As Prexy Hopkins said, "You could hear the grass grow when Jim made the kick." The Penn game in New York on November 8 drew the largest crowd of the year in the big city .... 20,000. We won 20-19 but six regulars returned to Hanover on shutters including Jim Robertson with a broken leg. That wrecked the detail and we lost 7-6 to Brown in the final game. Colgate also was upset by Syracuse which left the Eastern championship suspended in mid-air. For thrills and chills it was one of the most rugged seasons in Dartmouth history .... or are we getting old and have you joined the television brigade?
The grandpa question will probably be with us for some time. Bill Barber gives it a new twist with a very good picture of himself and his entry, James Baker Read Jr. 1971, complete with the "D." We believe his is the first documented claim, but there will be others. Dud Robinson expected to move back to Litchfield, Conn, from Scarsdale, N. Y. in July. Chick Stiles' boy Bob, who is a freshman in Hanover, has developed into quite a golfer and we may hear from him in inter-collegiate competition before long.
John Sullivan has been named General Chairman of Brotherhood Week which will be observed February 19-26, 1950. Bill Perry was honored last May at the Secretaries' meeting in Hanover as the outstanding Alumni Club Secretary of 1949. He was, and is, secretary of the large and active Boston Alumni Association. The citation read in part "How Bill finds time to work successfully as President and Treasurer of the Cambridge Paper Box Co., we don't know and we prefer not to inquire! There was at least one major event on the schedule for every month of the past year to appeal to the interests of Dartmouth men in and around Boston. He's our nominee for AllAmerican Alumni Club Secretary of the year!" Belated congratulations from the class, Bill. Phil Newhall who has been teaching science at Ansonia, Conn. High School was elected principal of the Wilmington (Vt.) High School. Phil and Mrs. Newhall expected to move to Wilmington late in August.
Visitors at the Hanover Inn in late August and September included the Hal Bramans of Middlebury, Conn.' the Okie O'Connors of Glenn Falls, N. Y.; Ort Hicks and his mother; Dr. Ernie Wilcox of Pleasantville, N. Y.; the "Speedy" Fleets from Cutchogue, N. Y.; and Jack Hubbell, N. Y. Of these, the Fleets and O'Connors will probably become commuters since their boys, Charlie and Dick, are in the freshman class. The other new '21 sons in the undergraduate body are Dolph Alger's son, John; Norm Crisp's second contribution, John; Joe Folger's boy, Dave; Bob Kendall Jr. from Portland, Ore.; Frank Lambert's Bob from Buffalo; Had Presson's boy "Happy"; HadSmith's son, Warren; Gordon Stanley's Dave; Jim Stanley's George; Chick Stiles' Bob and Dud Walker's sprout Dave, all the way from Honolulu, Hawaii where Dud is Director of Leahi Hospital.
Corey Ford put his Freedom N. H. manse on the market last June and planned to move to Hanover as soon as it was sold. He hopes to join the other '21 fratres in urbe and make it a perpetual reunion. The engagement of Miss Elaine Parsons of Marblehead to Daniel B. Ruggles 3rd, son of Dot and Dan Ruggles, was announced last summer. Miss Nancy Ann McAdams of Newton was married to Kenneth E. Brown, son of the Herrick Browns of New Rochelle, N. Y. on June 17 at the First Church, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Ken graduated from Dartmouth in '47 and is a member of the faculty at Governor Dummer Academy. MacJohnson, our traveling auditor, had lunch with Connie Keyes in San Francisco last spring as did Rog Wilde. Good to hear about you. Connie, even second-hand.
Cliff Hart writes that the traditional class dinner at the Dartmouth Club on the eve of the Princeton game will be held as usual on November 15 with the standard program of cocktails, dinner and good fellowship. HomerCleary will again preside at the music box. Make it if you are near the big town at that time.
We have just learned that Dr. William H.Minyard, who was with the class only during the freshman year, died on November 24, 1948. He lived in Asbury Park, N. J. at the time of his death.
We also lost Wade Werden last year. He passed away from a heart attack on December 22, 1948, and his death was not reported until recently. The class takes this opportunity to extend sincere sympathy to his wife, Bettina.
CORRECTION—The photograph accompanying the 1921 notes last month was incompletely captioned. The front row, left to right, of the picnic group should have read: Betsy Cleveland, Janet Mix, Jessie Mix, Madeline Harris, Betty Cleveland, Tava Lane, Dottie Burroughs, and Dot Ruggles.
"PHEZ" TAYLOR '21 AND NOTED FRIEND: Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder (left) visits with Sun Valley lawyer "Phez." The hundreds of celebrities who have become friends and clients of the attorney for the Union Pacific's famed resort know him by the college nickname that has stuck through the years.
LOOK WHAT '21 HAS! Here is the first photographic entry in the 1921 Grandson Derby showing James B. Read Jr. '71, grandson of beaming Bill Barber.
Secretary, 16 Lenox St., Worcester 2, Mass.
Treasurer, 2519 Ridgeway, Evanston, Ill.
Memorial Fund Chairman, 1015 Elm St., Manchester, N. H.
