1931

RFD 2, Box 36-A Schnecksville, PA 18078

We are indebted to Phil Holden for sending a clipping from a local newspaper reporting on the annual banquet last May of the Dartmouth Society of Engineers at which Ed Studwell was named Sylvanus Thayer Fellow. Although Ed is Tuck '32, his late father, Chester A. '02, was Thayer '03, and both had contributed financing to Thayer. Phil also reported that our football team had made some good plays against top-ranked Division 1-AA Holy Cross, and that he hoped for progress in the future.

In order to look into that future your scribe witnessed the freshman game with Cornell on October 24 in Ithaca. Although Cornell was a 21-14 winner, and generally controlled the line of scrimmage both ways, I am pleased to report that we have some talent. In talking on the sidelines with Ted Leland, director of athletics, I learned from him that, although we had also lost to Princeton and Harvard freshmen, in his opinion each of those contests could have gone our way. Subsequently, we've lost to Yale freshmen in a close one, so at least the freshmen seem to be competitive, and should furnish good material to the varsity in the next three seasons. Let us not become complacent with this forecast, however. Instead, why not make an effort to help Coach Teevens by identifying prospects for him? If our class could be responsible for having just one good player matriculate each year, and if each of the other classes could average another, we'd be Ivy champs forever. In particular, now that Florida has become a gold mine for football recruiters, how about some of you troops in that state giving Bernie Boyle a hand?