When You're Getting Ready for Your 50th Reunion, and You Dig into Your Files...

One morning in early November of 1935—50 years before the shanties and for radically different reasons—a tombstone was discovered on the Green. It symbolized the reality that the infamous Yale Jinx had finally been laid to rest. Today it may be hard to believe, but the football team's 14-6 victory in New Haven that year ended a half century of uninterrupted defeats at the hands of Yale. (Columbia s current problems seem pale by comparison.)

Actually, the outcome of the game was in doubt until late in the fourth quarterDartmouth was leading by a single point, 7-6—when ' Mutt Ray 37 intercepted a pass on Yale's 10-yard line and "bulleted his way to the touchdown that clinched matters," as the Alumni Magazine put it. Joe Handrahan '36 kicked the extra point.

Ray and Handrahan signed a copy of the photo memorializing the event—along with coach Earl "Red" Blaik; team captain Jack Kenny '36; veteran halfback Eddie Chamberlain '36, who ran the College's admission office for many years; sophomore Merrill "Stink" Davis '38; and a score of others. Your class secretary is indebted to Al Pettoruto '38 for digging up this photo and sending it to reunion chairman Dick Francis. It reminds us all of a different time. If you're wondering, Dartmouth's record against Yale since 1935 is 25 wins, 25 losses, and three ties.