1941
Ez Crowley saw it. Ray Welbourn came over from Laconia, N. H., and he saw it. I know Snuffy Smith saw it. And I certainly saw it. What? The best football game played in Hanover since the epic 3-0 win over Cornell in 1941. We could hardly believe it as Dartmouth kept coming from behind time and again until finally the Big Green caught Holy Cross on the final play of the game and then kicked the point to win 27-26. Much has been written about the details of the contest and they are undoubtedly included in the front of this MAGAZINE under "Big Green Teams." I won't go into that here. But long after the details are forgotten the Class of '58 will remember that game, for I'm certain that there took place a rebirth of the Dartmouth spirit that has seemed to some of us to have dwindled since the Class of '41 left Hanover.
This freshman class seems to have it. We were in Hanover for the big bonfire rally Friday night before the game. You could feel the spirit in the air and we found ourselves shouting the "Wah Hoo Wahs" defiantly as if we were pea green freshmen. When the Palaeop boys ran past dressed in white sweaters and white slacks I looked to see if it was Keir or Glenn or Harvey or Young. Yes, this seemed more like Dartmouth as we knew it.
And this attitude of the undergraduate body was transmitted to the Dartmouth eleven on Saturday. In the hole all afternoon, the team never quit trying and was rewarded in as thrilling a finish as you'd ever care to see. Regardless of what happens between now and the end of the season, Tuss McLaughry has a real bunch of scrappers and they'll put on a show for you every time. Go see 'em.
Something, however, is missing in Hanover, - Allen's Drug Store. This has become another clothing store - of which there are gobs in Hanover these days. The days of the giant 10$ milk shake are long gone and the crowd that assembled after the Nugget to swill them down no longer gathers. The students get their refreshments in College Hall and one small drugstore remains open at night to offer competition. There are still hitch-hikers to Leb and the Junction, so at least something remains normal.
Had a letter from Stew Steffey, who reports he has received some no checks for $5 class dues but reminds me that he will have to get some 200 more before December 1 if we don't want any trouble meeting expenses. If you have his letter around the house somewhere, why not pick it up and mail it along with five iron men to Stew. Stew has some fine men to help him along as class representatives in various areas around the country. Bill Sleepeck and Bob Nissen will take care of Chicago; WesHadden for Los Angeles; Ed Lamer and DickHill for Boston; John McCueston for Detroit; Hugh Murphy for Connecticut; Jake Gidney for Cleveland (whoever heard of Cleveland?); and Chuck Carleton and John Kelley for Minneapolis. Hugh Kenworthy has the job in Philadelphia, while in the New York area it's two little guys - Red O'Connor and yours truly. Stew feels that representatives in each area can help keep the class better organized and get things lined up for the big 15th in 1956. Irv Smith and Dick McCornack, both in Hanover, will be the chairmen and that sounds like a power-packed line-up to me. We haven't found anyone to take the job in Washington as yet, but would welcome any volunteers from the land of the Japanese cherry trees. I can think of several outstanding possibilities.
Recent visitors to Hanover in addition to those mentioned as attending the Holy Cross game were Bob Taft with wife and family, and Dutch Cotton, also with wife. These I understand were visits during the summer months. My spy at the Hanover Inn sends me this information regularly.
On November 15 Richard Ewing Combes will be seven months old. Ab and MaryCombes are mighty proud of their No. 3 as well as No. 1 Kit (9) and No. 2 Sally (7). The Combes now live in Pittsfield, Mass., at so Barker Rd.
Jim Kilgour is now director of sales of the Hubley Mfg. Co. in Lancaster, Pa. It's a toy company and I wonder if they make Softball equipment. Oh, what a fast one that guy had! No-hit Kilgour was the Bobby Feller of the campus way back when.
Two medical men to report on this month. Dr. George Clabaugh is with the Wesley Hospital in Chicago, Ill., and Dr. Hyzer Jones is practicing plastic surgery in Oakland, Calif.
I had an idea you might like to have a bit of ancient history thrown into these columns, so I'm inaugurating a section "Fourteen Years Ago This Month." Let's look back at what happened in November 1940, when we were grand old seniors. A presidential poll among Dartmouth faculty members showed Wendell Willkie in a slight lead over F.D.R Beta Theta Pi beat College Hall in the semi-finals of the touch football championship, 25-20. Harry Douty scored the first touchdown and Jack Horner grabbed passes for touchdowns three and four Lloyd Fishman scored the first touchdown for College Hall.... Roosevelt was elected for a third term The Glee Club under the direction of Buzz Willis gave its first concert Fred Begole wrote a column advocating the formation of an official Ivy League (and it took fourteen years to come to pass) Princeton beat Dartmouth 14-9. Beta beat Tuck in the touch football finals 12-6 as Norm Jones, Jack Bates and ArtSpocneman collaborated on the final touchdown.... Eight seniors, Jack Kelley, MonteWinship, Dan Dacey, Lou Young, BobO'Brien, Bob Krieger, Don Norton and RayHall made their last starts as Dartmouth footballers, a historic 3-0 victory over unbeaten Cornell, the No. 1 team of the nation The first real snow of the year fell on Nov. 26.
BRUCE FRIEDLICH '41 has been namedNew York manager of Fortune magazine's advertising sales staff. He started in the Cleveland sales office in 1941, left the following yearfor military service, and since I945 has donesales work for Fortune in the New York andNew Jersey area.
Secretary, 131 Cedar St., New York 6, N. Y.
Treasurer, 1140 Wightman St., Pittsburgh 17, Pa.
