Philadelphia

Approximately 200 Dartmouth alumni, undergraduates, dads, and guests (including 40 Cornell alumni) spent a most enjoyable afternoon on Monday, December 28, at our Annual Dutch Treat Luncheon to celebrate the beginning of the 25th Anniversary of the famous Dartmouth-Cornell "sth Down Game" of 1940. The program lasted for more than three hours and almost all who came stayed for every minute. Irving"Snuffy" Smith '4l, who was the manager of the Dartmouth football team in 1940, came down from Hanover to be the master of ceremonies, bringing with him the game football which was fondly passed around by all involved.

Among those who spoke and attended the luncheon were Lou Young '41, the Dartmouth captain, Dr. Walter Matuzak, the Cornell captain, Ray Wolfe '43, halfback of the "sth Down Game," H. E. Vansordam, president and founder of the New York Touchdown Club and football official who had refereed many Dartmouth games, and Lou Elverson, football coach at Swarth-more College who was involved in a 5th down situation this year.

The featured speaker was "Red" Friesell, the referee involved in the "5th down" call, who stated that he was glad to finally get a chance to speak before a mixed group of Dartmouth and Cornell alumni. After apologizing to both schools, he claimed he was "sorry and glad about the decision since it made me." He went on to say that he was sure that Coach Red Blaik never knew, at the time, that a sth down was involved because "if he did, we would still be out there arguing." As a matter of circumstances "Red" Friesell happened to get luncheon ticket #5, hat check #5, and was the 5th speaker on the program. After all the speeches were finished, complete game movies were shown.

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