Alumni planning to attend the Dartmouth-Brown football game on October 12 are reminded that the Hanover P.T.A. will be serving a walk-away chicken barbecue luncheon opposite the main gate of Memorial Stadium. Price is $1.50 and the chicken will "be served from noon, before the game, and during half-time (and following the game if any remaining). Proceeds from the barbecue go to help the P.T.A. and the many worthwhile programs they sponsor.
Although the 1958 and 1959 football schedules have not yet been released, DCAC officials have announced that Dartmouth will play Boston College in Boston on October 17, 1959. This is the first time that the two teams have faced each other since the 1920's, when Dartmouth defeated B.C. twice.
Two former Dartmouth athletes in the Chicago area teamed up to win an Ivy League Alumni Golf Tournament and custody of the "Brown Cup" for 1957. Eugene Howard Jr. '49, former Dartmouth star quarterback, and Kent Calhoun '52, former Dartmouth basketball captain, posted the lowest scores among alumni teams from all Ivy schools. Howard shot a 72 for 18-holes and had no handicap, while Calhoun finished with a 73, but with a handicap of 7, wound up with a 66. Combined scores for Dartmouth was 138, while runner-up Yale had 152.
Moving the calendar ahead a few months, Director of Athletics Red Rolfe announces that the Dartmouth and Holy Cross basketball teams will be hosts to Colgate and Brown in two nights of twin-bill basketball December 27-28 at the Worcester (Mass.) Auditorium. Fans in the Boston and Worcester areas should see some outstanding basketball.
Some of the leading sophomore candidates with Coach Blackman as 1957 football practice opened. L to r: Sam Bowlby, tackle; John Crouthamel, halfback; Bill Gundy, quarterback; Duncan Lanum, center; Bob Virostek, center; and Coach Blackman.