From Flying Wedge to "T"

Dartmouth's 75th Year of Football Brings to Mind Some Memorable Names and Contests of the Past

THIS fall, as they have during the past 74 seasons, Dartmouth alumni by the thousands will turn out to cheer the "team in green." Mingled with their cheers and exhortations resounding in the stadiums of the East will be the oft-repeated phrase "I remember when ...," or "Did you see that Dartmouth-Yale game back in '31?" For like all college alumni Dartmouth men delight in recalling the great gridiron moments of their day. And nearly every era has been great, for Dartmouth's football history during this span has been as colorful and exciting as any.

Also in the stands this fall will be a new crop of Dartmouth men, the members of the Class of 1959. Many of these young-sters have never seen a Big Green team before. Few will pause to reflect on the long traditions of the game or those glorious moments in the past when Dartmouth snatched victory on the same field. The eyes of these lads will be on the 1955 Dartmouth team observing the Diamond Jubi- lee Year of football with a new coaching staff, a new V-system of attack, new uniforms and a new spirit. All signs point to another new era in Dartmouth's football history. So it perhaps is fitting that we pause at this time for a brief glimpse into the past and a look at some of the games, players, coaches and events which like the autumnal haze on Memorial Field form a distantly seen but important background for the current, 75th year football team of Dartmouth College.

FOOTBALL is a relatively new sport at Dartmouth. The original code of laws at the College counseled students to "turn the course of their diversions... to the practice of some manual arts, or cultivation of gardens ... away from that which is puerile, such as playing with balls, bowls."

More hardy souls, however, took to pursuing a "leather-covered" ball across the campus, and soon the entire student body joined in, with seniors and sophomores battling the juniors and freshmen in a rugged free-for-all. Then in 1876 John Ingham '77, C. W. Stevens '77 and Lewis Parkhurst '78 introduced the game of rugby to Dartmouth, and in 1878 the first game of rugby football was played on the campus between the "Blues" and "Reds."

In the fall of 1880 the entering freshman class brought Clarence E. Howland '84 to Hanover. Howland's experience with rugby football at Williston Academy coupled with his enthusiasm for the game and natural ability as organizer and leader led to the formation of Dartmouth's first varsity football eleven in 1880. However, no opponents could be found that season, and it was in 1881, with old suits procured from Princeton, that the first Dartmouth football team in history under "Cap" Howland trotted on to the campus to play Amherst.

November 16, 1881 was a typical fall Saturday in Hanover, cool and bright, and practically the entire student body and faculty crowded around the campus to watch the game. It must have been a dull game by our standards, but excitement ran high and late in the game when C. W. Oakes '83 scampered around end for a Dartmouth tally, the cheering echoed almost as loud as it does today from Memorial Stadium. Oakes' lone touchdown was the margin of victory, and the 1-0 score was written into the record books to inaugurate a new Dartmouth sports era.

The following year games were played with McGill, University of Montreal and Harvard. The McGill game, played under a mixture of Canadian and American rules and with 13 players on a side, brought a Dartmouth victory, but the final game with Harvard ended with the Crimson winning 53-0 and prompted TheDartmouth to run a headline proclaiming "Rugby Is Dead."

In these early years "Cap" Howland, the founder of Dartmouth football, was captain, manager, coach and trainer. The squad ate together in Conant Hall with roast beef and "two mugs of Bass's Ale" as the chief dietary items of each meal. Student interest in the sport began to lag and in 1884 the Yale team, best in the nation, was brought to Hanover to revive interest. It was a mistake. The Elis ran wild that afternoon, piling up 113 points to zero for Dartmouth and providing the biggest rout in Dartmouth history. A week later Harvard pulled into town on a milk and cattle train from Montreal and pinned a 29-0 defeat on the hapless Indians.

These defeats coupled with the graduation of most of the team forced the abandonment of the sport during the 1885 season, but in 1886 it was revived by Bill Odlin go, a leader and player very similar to "Cap" Howland. Under Odlin Dartmouth entered a new federation with Amherst, Trinity, Wesleyan, M.I.T. and Stevens Institute and embarked on a more ambitious schedule. In Odlin's senior year (1889) Dartmouth won seven games and the league championship, while losing only to Harvard. This season also marked the introduction of more scientific training, better management and a higher quality of play at Dartmouth.

Offense during this period and until 1905 was based largely on the "flying wedge" and similar power formations. Players formed a V and advanced down field with the quarterback passing the ball into the middle of the mass. Opposing players formed "human battering rams" to break up the large wedge, which then split into smaller wedges still protecting the ball carrier until play ceased.

It was during the switch-over from the old style of play to a more modern, wideopen version with the forward pass, onside kick and the abolishment of the piggy-back ground attack, that Dartmouth first began to attract attention in the football world. The 1903 team, coached by Fred Folsom '95, a former Dartmouth lineman, played ten games and lost only to Princeton. The high spot of the 1903 season was the Dartmouth-Harvard game dedicating Harvard's new football stadium. For the first time the Big Green student body turned out en masse for the trek to Cambridge. Swelling the Harvard cheering section were some 200 swarthy Italian laborers who were still working on the stadium construction. It was a rugged game throughout but Dartmouth's power proved the difference as Leigh Turner, who moved into the backfield from tackle, crashed over for two touchdowns to give the Big Green an 11-0 win. This victory and the others immediately preceding it had advanced Dartmouth to a position high among the college teams in the nation.

This position was strengthened further in the next season (1904) when the first undefeated football team in Dartmouth history became a reality with seven wins and a 0-0 tie game with Harvard. In 74 years Dartmouth has produced only five undefeated teams - 1904, 1907, 1924, 1925 and 1937. However, four of these teams had their records marred by tie contests, and the 1925 team was the only one to go through a season undefeated and untied.

Under Coach Walter McCornack '97 Dartmouth teams began to think in terms of beating instead of merely holding the big Eastern teams, and during the years of Fred Folsom's regime as head coach Dartmouth's eminence in the collegiate football world definitely was established. Folsom's four-year record of 29 wins and only five defeats gives him one of the best records of any Dartmouth coach. The record is even more remarkable when one considers that this was the' era of the change-over from the old style of play to an offensive and defensive system closely resembling that of today.

Space does not permit a year-by-year chronicling of Dartmouth football. The best epochs in Dartmouth football came in cycles and by coaches. Frank Cavanaugh, the "Iron Major" of World War I fame and one of the East's most colorful coaches, piloted his Dartmouth teams to a six-year record of 42 wins, ten defeats and two ties from 1911 through 1916. The great Jess Hawley had 39 wins, ten defeats and one tie from 1923 through 1928, and masterminded Dartmouth's great national championship team of 1925. Coach Earl "Red" Blaik in seven years from 1934 through 1940 led his Big Green teams to 45 wins, 15 losses and four ties against increasingly stiff opposition. More recently Dartmouth's beloved Tuss McLaughry, moving for the first time into a schedule against eight major opponents, coached his Dartmouth teams of 1948 and 1949 to twelve wins in sixteen games. The list of Dartmouth coaches, starting in 1893 with William S. Moyle, is a long and illustrious one. In all, the College has had sixteen head coaches during 75 years, including Dartmouth's new coach, Bob Blackman.

WITH fine coaches and her share of victories and defeats, it is only natural that Dartmouth should have an impressive list of football stars, including 21 selected over the years for All-American honors. It is most appropriate that Larry Bankart '10, a third-team All-American end and later assistant coach at Dartmouth under Cavanaugh and then longtime head coach at Colgate University, should select an All-Time Dartmouth football team listed elsewhere in this section. The following players, listed by positions, are those chosen for the various All-American first teams over the years. The year of selection follows each name:

BACKS: Myron Witham 1904, Milt Ghee 1914, Eddie Dooley 1934, "Swede" Oberlander 1925, Al Marsters 1929 and Bob MacLeod 1936.

ENDS: Ralph Glaze 1905, George Schildmiller 1908, Robert Hogsett 1913, Henry Bjorkman 1924, George Tully 1925, and Dale Armstrong 1948.

TACKLES: Wesley Englehorn 191 a, "Swede" Youngstrom 1919, Nate Parker l925.

GUARDS: Joe Gilman 1904, Clarke Tobin 1908, Clarence Spears 1914 and 1915, Eugene Neely 1917, and "Dutch" Diehl 1984 and 1925.

CENTERS: Henry Hooper '03.

There were, of course, other great players down through Dartmouth football history who are deserving of mention. One can not easily forget great ends like Heinie Sage '27, Mo Monahan '43, Red Rowe '50, Dave Beeman 'go and Dave McLaughlin '54. Famed tackles are Leigh Turner '03, Ben Lang '10, Gus Sonnenberg '20 and Pudge Neidlinger '23; while at guard one should mention the outstanding play of Cyril Aschenbach '23. Three great centers mentioned for Ail-American honors were Bill Cunningham '19, Bill Andres '31 and Carl Ray '37.

Big Green quarterbacks starring on the gridiron have included Frank Llewellyn '14, Jack Cannell '19, Bill Morton '32 and Johnny Clayton '51, while outstanding halfbacks were Dave Morey '12, Charlie Burke '23, Myles Lane '28, Bill Hutchinson '40 and Joe Sullivan '49. At fullback, one recalls such players as John Marks '11, Lawrence Whitney '15, Jim Robertson '20, John Handrahan '37, and Billy Roberts '51.

These are but a few of the men who contributed so greatly to Dartmouth football. There were countless others who played together in defeat and victory and have become a part of the gridiron tradition at Dartmouth.

THESE men and many others have provided Dartmouth fans in particular and football fans in general with some thrilling and unusual games during the 74-year span. Some will still remember the Dartmouth-Harvard game in 1902. The Indians, who had never beaten Harvard since the series started in 1882, were trailing by only one touchdown, 11-6, late in the fourth period. But darkness was settling over the field and a few plays later the Crimson ran out of bounds and the referee lighted a match to locate the sidelines and then with a lantern steered both teams back to the line of scrimmage. On the next play the Dartmouth players tackled every Harvard man on the field, but it took harried officials three minutes to find who had the ball. On the very next play an unidentified Harvard player took off in the darkness and scampered all the way for a touchdown to end the game with a 16-6 score.

The season of 1919 is one that Dartmouth men of that day still talk about. The team included a number of lettermen from 1916 and 1917, back after service in World War I, and other seasoned stalwarts who made the Big Green a powerhouse in the real sense of the word. By defeating Penn State, heralded as the championship team of the year, Dartmouth jumped into national prominence. The Dartmouth-Colgate game in Hanover brought together two undefeated giants and produced an epic tie. Colgate scored in the first half on a pass and, on a wet and slippery field, fought off Dartmouth's ground attack. Youngstrom blocked three Colgate kicks but each one resulted in a Colgate gain. Finally in the fourth quarter he broke through and blocked a fourth punt, and this time the ball was recovered behind the goal line for a Green touchdown. Dartmouth still trailed 7-6 as Robertson made ready for the point-after try. As the packed stands watched in tense silence, the ball struck an upright and dropped over for the tying point.

The following Saturday, the game with Pennsylvania in the Polo Grounds, New York, was another memorable thriller, won by Dartmouth, so-19. In blocking and tackling no quarter was given on either side, and players were lugged off the field in droves. After Dartmouth had lost Robertson, Youngstrom and Myers, Captain Cannell by sheer generalship held Penn at bay in the closing minutes and saved the day. One of the Penn players in that game was Lou Little, now Columbia's famous coach.

The Indians seem to have a knack for spoiling stadium dedications. In 1920 the Dartmouth team journeyed all the way to the West Coast to engage the University of Washington in their stadium dedication at Seattle. A capacity crowd filled the new stadium, largest in the world at that time, only to see a powerful Green team overwhelm Washington 27-7. The student hospitality experienced on that trip led to the founding of Dartmouth's Green Key Society.

Of all Dartmouth's rivals Princeton perhaps has provided some of the oddest games in Dartmouth history. In 1909 a train wreck on the Pennsylvania Railroad forced the Big Green squad to travel from New York to Princeton by trolley and they barely arrived at game time. Final score Dartmouth 6, Princeton 6.

One of the notable freak plays in football history gave Princeton a 3-0 decision over the Indians in 1903. Late in the fourth period, with the game a scoreless deadlock, the Tigers' DeWitt attempted a dropkick field goal. The ball barely cleared the scrimmage line, hit the field, bounced to the five-yard line where Dartmouth quarterback Llewellyn made a grab for it. Just then the ball took a sudden bounce and soared over the goal posts. The referee allowed it as a field goal and Princeton won the game. A year later a rule was established that once the kicked ball hit the ground it was dead.

The Tigers and Big Green have battled through blizzards and hurricanes in search of victory. In 1935 snow swirled down on Palmer Stadium so hard that it was impossible to see the teams from the stands. Then in 1950 the two teams battled in Palmer Stadium with hurricane winds blowing punts behind the kicker and passes riding 60 yards downfield with the gale. Some 31,000 tickets were sold, but only 5,000 hardy spectators turned out.

The Yale rivalry has also provided its share of upsets and thrills. No one at the Yale Bowl for the 1931 Dartmouth-Yale game has ever forgotten that contest. Coach Jackson Cannell's Big Green team was out that year to snap the Yale jinx which had thwarted Dartmouth since the series started in 1884. But the Indians got away to a slow start, allowing the Elis' famed Albie Booth to score three times in ten minutes and give Yale a 26-10 halftime lead. But Dartmouth, led by Wild Bill McCall, came storming back. McCall caught a pass from Bill Morton to score one touchdown. Then with Morton raging all over the field to whip the Indians up, McCall broke away to race 92 yards for another touchdown and still later he intercepted a Yale pass and raced 63 yards to score. Late in the fourth period, trailing 33-30, the Indians drove down the field again with McCall carrying to the Yale ten-yard marker. With time running out, Bill Morton called for a field goal attempt with McCall holding. The vast Yale Bowl fell deathly still as the ball snapped back and Morton booted, straight through the uprights to give the Indians a 33-33 tie with Yale. It wasn't until 1935, when they won 14-6, that Dartmouth was able to defeat Yale for the first time.

Another fighting Big Green aggregation was responsible for what is termed "Dartmouth's greatest game." In the fall of 1940 a Cornell team, undefeated in 18 straight games and overwhelming favorites over Dartmouth, invaded Hanover to meet Coach Red Blaik's Big Green squad. Dartmouth, having only a mediocre season, could draw only 8,000 fans into the stadium. But the Big Green put on a tremendous defensive show which held the vaunted Big Red attack for the entire first half. Then in the third period the Indians drove to the Cornell 9-yard line and the Indians' Bob Krieger booted a field goal which gave Dartmouth a 3-0 lead. But Cornell fought back and in the dying minutes of the game drove downfield to the Dartmouth six-yard line. With first down and goal to go, the Ithacans took three line plunges into the tough Dartmouth line to bring the ball to the one-yard stripe. Only six seconds remained as a Cornell time out cost them a five-yard penalty. When Scholl's pass into the end zone was knocked down, the Dartmouth stands let out a roar which has probably never been equalled in Hanover. But the referee, Red Friesell, had miscounted the Cornell downs and awarded the ball again to Cornell, thus allowing them a "fifth down." Cornell scored this time and converted to win 7-3. However, on the following day when he saw the movies Referee Friesell admitted his mistake and on Monday Cornell officials conceded that Dartmouth had won the game by a 3-0 score. Thus ended, two days later, one of the most thrilling and controversial contests in the history of college football.

There have been many other exciting games, far too many to mention here. Only last fall in the opener with Holy Cross, Dartmouth trailed 26-20 going into the final minutes of the game. The Indians ground downfield to the Crusader 10-yard line where, with three seconds left to play, quarterback Bill Beagle hit Captain Lou Turner in the end zone with a pass just as the gun sounded. With the game tied 26-26, it was Leo McKenna, captain of this 1955 Diamond Jubilee Year team, who trotted calmly onto the field and booted the ball squarely between the uprights to give the Big Green a welldeserved win.

THERE have been many great teams in Dartmouth football history, five of them undefeated. The highest scoring team was the 1914 squad under Coach Cavanaugh which piled up 359 points while winning eight games and losing only one. The most widely acclaimed team is, of course, the national championship team of 1925. Under Coach Jess Hawley, this squad went undefeated and untied in eight games and amassed 340 points while allowing all opponents only 29 points. This was the team which produced four All-American players that year in "Swede" Oberlander, George Tully, "Dutch" Diehl and Nate Parker. Oberlander tossed fourteen touchdown passes that year, a Dartmouth record that still stands.

Almost equally impressive in view of the opposition is the record of Coach Tuss McLaughry's Dartmouth team of 1948. The Indians in that year faced eight major opponents on successive Saturdays: Pennsylvania, Holy Cross, Colgate, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and Princeton. To win six games from major opponents, five of them in a row, while losing only to Pennsylvania and Cornell, was an accomplishment of major proportions. It is a moot point whether the 1925 team faced with the intricacies of modernday football and all major opponents could have duplicated the record of the 1948 team. There is glory enough for both teams in the annals of Dartmouth football history.

In this Diamond Jubilee Year of Dartmouth football, however, it is time to look ahead while paying homage to the past. Coach Bob Blackman and his 1955 team cannot let their thoughts dwell overlong on the glorious traditions which have been a part of the preceding 74 seasons. Their concentration is on the 1955 schedule and by the time these words are in print, the 1955 Dartmouth team will already have started to write its own record.

Dartmouth football moves on into the future with much of its strength and spirit drawn from those who have gone before. And all of us, proud of the heritage Dartmouth and Dartmouth teams have given us, will join together, once again this fall, in echoing the beloved refrain "Whether in defeat or victory, we are loyal just the same!"

Varsity Football Record, 1881-1954

Year Coach Captain Won Lost Tied 1881 C. Howland '84 1 0 1 1882 C. Howland '84 1 1 0 1883 C. Howland '84 0 1 0 1884 W. V. Towle '85 1 2 1 1885 1886 W. Odlin '90 2 2 0 1887 W. Odlin '90 3 1 1 1888 W. Odlin '90 3 4 0 1889 W. Odlin '90 7 1 0 1890 F. W. Lakeman '92 4 4 0 1891 F. W. Lakeman '92 2 2 1 1892 W. A. Allen '93 5 3 0 1893 W. S. Moyle E. E. Jones '94 m 4 3 0 1894 W. S. Moyle C. S. Little '91 5 4 0 1895 W. C. Wurtemburg W. E. McCornack '97 7 5 1 1896 W. C. Wurtemburg W. E. McCornack '97 5 2 1 1897 W. C. Wurtemburg J. B. C. Ekstorm '98 4 3 0 1898 W. C. Wurtemburg F. J. Crolius '99 5 3 0 1899 W. C. Wurtemburg J. Wentworth 'OO 2 7 0 1900 F. E. Jennings '00 F. W. Lowe '01 2 4 2 1901 W. E. McCornack '97 J. C. O'Connor '02 9 1 0 1902 W. E. McCornack '97 V. M. Place '03 6 2 1 1903 F. G. Folsom '95 M. E. Witham '04 9 1 0 1904 F. G. Folsom '95 J. W. Knibbs '05 7 0 1 1905 F. G. Folsom '95 D. J. Main '06 7 1 2 1906 F. G. Folsom '95 J. B. Glaze '08 6 3 1 1907 J. C. O'Connor '02 J. B. Glaze '08 8 0 1 1908 J. C. O'Connor'02 G. F. Kennedy '09 6 1 1 1909 W. H. Lillard '05 C. W. Tobin '10 5 1 2 1910 W. J. Randall '96 J. J. Ryan '11 5 2 0 1911 F. W. Cavanaugh'99 E. J. Daley '12 8 2 0 1912 F. W. Cavanaugh'99 R. L. Bennett'13 7 2 0 1913 F. W. Cavanaugh '99 R. N. Hogsett '14 7 1 0 1914 F. W. Cavanaugh'99 L. A. Whitney '15 8 1 0 1915 F. W. Cavanaugh'99 J. B. McAuliffe '16 7 1 1 1916 F. W. Cavanaugh'99 B. O. Gerrish '17 5 3 1 1917 C. W. Spears '17 H. B. McDonough'18 5 3 0 1918 C. W. Spears'17 K. C. Bevan '19 3 3 0 1919 C. W. Spears'17 J. L. Cannell'19 6 1 1 1920 C. W. Spears '17 J. E. Robertson '20 7 2 0 1921 J. L. Cannell '19 J. E. Robertson'20 6 2 1 1922 J. L. Cannell '19 C. F. Burke '23 6 3 0 1923 }. B. Hawley '09 C. J. Aschenbach '23 8 1 0 1924 J. B. Hawley '09 H. B. Bjorkman '25 7 0 1 1925 J. B. Hawley '09 N. K. Parker'26 8 0 0 1926 J. B. Hawley '09 N. W. Horton '27 4 4 0 1927 J. B. Hawley '09 R. B. MacPhail '28 7 1 0 1928 J. B. Hawley '09 R. W. Black '29 5 4 0 1929 J. L. Cannell'19 E. Armstrong'30 7 2 0 193° J. L. Cannell'19 H. Andres'31 7 1 1 1931 J. L. Cannell '19 S. W. Yudicky '32 5 3 1 1932 J. L. Cannell '19 W. J. Hoffman '33 4 4 0 loss T. L. Cannell '19 P. T. Glazer '34 4 4 1 1934 E. H. Blaik G. F. Hill '35 6 3 0 1935 E. H. Blaik J. J. Kenny '36 8 2 0 1936 E. H. Blaik G. P. Bennett '37 7 1 1 1937 E. H. Blaik M. N. Davis '38 702 1938 E. H. Blaik R. MacLeod '39 7 2 0 1939 E. H. Blaik C. Miller '40 5 3 1 1940 E. H. Blaik L. Young '41 5 4 0 1941 D. O. McLaughry C. Pearson '42 5 4 0 1942 D. O. McLaughry E. Kast '43 0 1943 E. M. Brown 6 1 0 1944 E. M. Brown 2 5 1 1945 D. O. McLaughry M. M. Frost '44 and 1 6 1 C. R. McKinnon '46 1946 D. O. McLaughry T. Douglas '44 3 6 0 1947 D. O. McLaughry J. Hannigan '46 4 4 1 1948 D. O. McLaughry D. Armstrong '46 6 2 0 1949 D. O. McLaughry H. Carey '50 6 2 0 1950 D. O. McLaughry P. Staley '51 3 5 1 1951 D. O. McLaughry W. Vesprini '52 4 5 0 1952 D. 0. McLaughry P. Reich '53 270 1953 D. O. McLaughry C. B. Johnson '54 2 7 0 1954 D. O. McLaughry L. C. Turner. '55 3 6 0 Totals 369 191

Some Coaches Who Directed the Big Green To Outstanding Records

The backfield of 1896. Left to right: Frederick Crolius '99, Captain Walter McCornack '97, later coach in 1901 and 1902, John Eckstorm '98 and David Macandrew '98.

Dartmouth's first football team in 1881, wearing the uniforms wangled from Princeton. The action shot on the opposite page shows a game on the campus in the '80s.

Mass play of fifty years ago, with yardage ground out bruisingly, is shown in this action shot of the 1903 Dartmouth-Brown game.

Leigh Turner scoring Dartmouth's first touchdown against Harvard in the 1903 game dedicating Harvard's new stadium.

Dartmouth's first undefeated team - the eleven of 1904 - which won seven games and played a 0-0 tie with Harvard. Captain John W. Knibbs '05 holds the ball.

The Dartmouth team that traveled to Seattle to play the University of Washington in a dedication game in 1920. L to r: Robertson, Burke, Lynch, Neidlinger, Jordan, Cunningham, Sonnenberg, Moore, Crisp, Merritt and Shelburne.

The national championship team of 1925 which won all eight games. Four All-Americans in the front row are "Dutch" Diehl (far left),Captain Nate Parker (center), Swede" Oberlander and George Tully (third and second from right).

Perhaps the most famous passing combination in Dartmouth's football history, Oberlander to Tully, scoring in the 1925 Harvard game, won by the Big Green, 32 to 9.

Fred Folsom '95, coach from 1903 through 1906, with 29 wins and only five losses, lifted the Big Green to national ranking.

Earl "Red" Blaik, head coach from 1934 through 1940, with All-American Bob MacLeod '39, who captained the 1938 team. Blaik's seven-year regime produced some of Dartmouth's top teams, with an overall record of 45 wins, 15 losses and four ties.

Frank Cavanaugh '99, the "Iron Major" (2nd from right), coached six highly successful seasons from 1911 through 1916. With him (1 to r) are "Doc" Bowler, trainer, and two coaching assistants, Joe Gilman '05 and Larry Bankart '10.

Jess Hawley '09 (left) directed the Big Green to 39 wins, 10 losses and two ties from 1923 through 1928, and produced the national championship team of 1925. He is shown with "Rip" Heneage '07, Dartmouth's director of athletics from 1927 to 1936.

DeOrmond "Tuss" McLaughry, shown with Captain Bud Kast .'43, coached 12 years, 1941-1954, for the longest regime in Big Green history. His 1948 and 1949 teams were the first to defeat six major foes.

The undefeated team of 1937 in the Harvard Stadium the day before the game. L to r. line - Captain Merrill Davis, Fran Schildgen, Dick Campbell, Bob Gibson, Jim Feeley, Larry Dilkes, Whit Miller, Larry Hull; backfield - Bob MacLeod, "Heavenly" Gates, Bill Hutchinson, Fred Hollingworth.

In the same spot, the 1949 team which, like the 1948 team, won six major victories. L to r, line—Tom Rowe, Dick Gowen, Stew Young, Paul Staley, Pete Bucklin, Ted Eberle, Dave Beeman; backfield — Ed Isbey, Captain Herb Carey, John Clayton, Bill