With Big Green Teams

DARTMOUTH'S. 1956 fall sports got under way promptly on September 1 when 72 varsity football candidates reported to Coach Blackman and his staff. Under the ruling of the Ivy Football League, which becomes a reality this fall after-82 years on an. informal basis, the eight Ivy teams were allowed to begin practice sessions, on September 1. This allowed the Big Green squad exactly four weeks to get ready for the season's opener with the University of New Hampshire on September 29, the longest pre-season session for some years.

Thirty-five varsity, soccer candidates and about half that number of cross-country runners reported about September 20 for workouts before their opening contests. Class of i960 aspirants for Dartmouth's freshman teams will get called out the first week of October.

It has been an unusually placid summer on the athletic front. The appointment of Tony Lupien as head baseball coach and the resignation of Ed Styrna as assistant track coach were the only personnel changes (see Green Jottings). Memorial Stadium got a face-lifting of sorts with the installation of new seat boards in the west stands and some fresh paint on the press box and adjacent facilities. Football ticket applications went to all alumni in August, while in September Dartmouth faculty and staff members found that a new policy permits purchase, of reserved seat tickets at $1.50 in a special section. More affluent faculty members may sit a bit nearer the 50-yard line at full price.

At this mid-September writing the only team that has begun to take shape is the football squad so let's move in for a close look and an analysis of the Big Green's 1956 season — the first under the Ivy League.