Crouthamel Returns as Backfield Coach

THERE is a familiar face in a familiar place on the Dartmouth sports scene now. John Jacob Crouthamel '60 has come off the sidelines and joined the football staff as varsity backfield coach.

Dartmouth's Flying Dutchman returned to his alma mater after a mid-February raid by Yale's Carmen Cozza took away two of Bob Blackman's assistant coaches. They were backfield coach Jim Root and linebacker coach Neil Put-nam, both formerly associated with Yale's new head coach at Miami of Ohio.

Blackman, of course, has had his eye on Crouthamel since his graduation five years ago. Bob had been instrumental last year in gaining Jake the football coaching job at Mercersburg Academy (where Crouthamel promptly installed Dartmouth's single wing defense and brought Mercersburg a long-awaited victory over Lawrenceville).

As a sophomore in 1957 Crouthamel won the varsity job from three letterman halfbacks and went on to start 27 consecutive games, a feat unequalled at Dartmouth since. He still holds the modern Dartmouth career rushing record of 1,763 yards, won All-Ivy and All-East honors for two years, and sparked the Green's first formal Ivy football championship in 1958.

After graduation Jake was torn between Stanford Business School and an offer from the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He could not resist football, spent ten weeks with the Cowboys and was the final player released on the final cut-down day as Dallas honored a no-cut contract to another rookie. Later that season he played a couple of games with the Boston Patriots of the American League, then entered the Navy for a three-year hitch, winding up as a j.g. and coach of the Pearl Harbor Base eleven.

Another addition to the Big Green staff is Charles (Chuck) Ramsey, 26, former coach and athletic director at Oak Harbor (O.) High. Ramsey, who was an All-Ohio and All-Mid American Conference guard at Bowling Green in 1959, will be freshman line coach. Blackman promoted John Anderson, who joined the staff in this capacity a year ago, to Putnam's old role as varsity line assistant.

Jake Crouthamel '60