Ivy League

Pete Reich, guard and captain-elect of the 1953 football team, is a man of ideas as well as action. It occurred to him that it would be a good thing if the football players representing those institutions which Dartmouth is pleased to call sister institutions should meet under circumstances other than those of the fierce and internecine warfare of the gridiron. Accordingly, he invited the captains of all of the Ivy League football teams to come to Hanover the weekend of May 3 for an informal and goodwill meeting.

They did. Captains from Pennsylvania, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, and Brown joined with men of Dartmouth to discuss their mutual problems in Hanover. The Princeton captain was otherwise occupied as a competitor in the Yale-Princeton track meet on the same day. The Cornell captain was also engaged by virtue of his member- ship on the baseball team. But with those exceptions, they all showed up. They had a good time, what with a cocktail party, a banquet, and a Softball game.

The latter contest was a casual and friendly affair, with the sides chosen among the visiting captains and the members of the Dartmouth varsity. Pitchers were Reich and the giant tackle from Penn, Bob Evans, whose amiability on this occasion gave no indication of the ferocity with which he smothered the running plays sent in his direction last fall in the Penn stadium. The score soon got out of hand and nobody (happily) had any idea who won.

All in all, this was a very good idea, and will probably become an annual affair. Certainly nothing in years has so brought the representatives of the different institutions together in an atmosphere of friendship and good sportsmanship. Peter Reich is a good Dartmouth captain.