Green Jottings

William H. Morton '32 was one of 25 former All-American football players selected by Sports Illustrated Magazine as "Men of the Quarter Century" - "who have most distinguished themselves in their chosen fields of life." A municipal securities dealer in New York City, Morton was perhaps best remembered for kicking the field goal that tied the 1931 Dartmouth-Yale game at 33-33. And Bill "Air Mail" Morton had some thought-provoking words to say in Sports Illustrated. "The most important lessons to be learned on the football field, cannot be learned in the classroom. I have no time for hard losers. You see them sometime at your golf club. They fuss and fume and rip up divots and act like little boys. Whenever I see a man like that, I say to myself 'he never played a contact sport.' Mere knowledge isn't enough. Plenty of soreheads have knowledge without having balance and a sense of proportion. A football field is a pretty good place to achieve the understanding of intelligent competition so important later on."

Randy Malin, sophomore goalie on last fall's varsity soccer team, was named to the 1956 All-Ivy Soccer Team, while Captain Cal Perry at center half, Gaptain-elect Tony Gittes, halfback, and Bob Googins, an inside left, were selected for the All-Ivy second team. Young Malin, incidentally, never played soccer before coming to Dartmouth and had to be induced by Coach Tom Dent to try out for the team. His brother, Clem '56, however, was also a standout goal-tender. Must run in the family.

When Vilhjalmur Einarsson '56, Iceland's hop, step and jump champion (who won a second-place silver medal in the Olympics), arrived in Melbourne, the press interview room was stumped because no interpreter for Icelandic could be located. Finally, one official took a chance and said, "What language can you speak?" To which Einarsson replied, "English will do - I am a graduate of Dartmouth College in the States."