Kicking off the New Season

Death, taxes, and Dartmouth. Those three inevitabilities haunt the dreams of Ivy Leaguers from the Schuylkill to the Seekonk, from the Connecticut to the Harlem to the Charles, from Lake Carnegie to Cayuga Lake. There are lots of reasons to think that Dartmouth will not win the Ivy title this year. There're ambitious Penn and steadfast Yale; there're aspiring Brown and flamboyant Harvard. And who can say that Stardust will not fall on the League's downtrodden: Cornell, Columbia, or Princeton?

On the other hand, only fools and Englishmen wager against Dartmouth these days. For five consecutive years the Ivy Championship, or at least part of it, has reposed in Hanover. So disregard Dartmouth's bold adventure into coeducation.

Away with President John Kemeny's innovative, computer-based curricula. Who cares about Dartmouth's unique year-round semester system? Let the beleaguered Indian symbol rest in peace. The vital question is, How long will Dartmouth continue to treat the rest of the Ivy League like an appendage of the Hanover Inn?

Answers to that and other pressing questions of the hour appear in the following pages of the Third Annual Ivy League Football Preview. Whether or not the Hanover Dynasty will fall will all be part of the record by Thanksgiving Day. Between now and then there will be countless errant passes, gnashed teeth, bobbled fumbles, fluttering handkerchiefs, crisp fall days, unexpected moments of elation, and warm feelings of satisfaction that last well into the night. All we know for sure is that you can't say we didn't warn you.

This special section of information and advertising was prepared under the direction of the Ivy League Magazine Group andis appearing in six Ivy League alumni magazines.