1931

Our 1931 freshman football team played its last game of the season in November 1927 in Palmer Stadium against the Princeton frosh. Of the 225 men who reported for practice the first day of freshman football Coach Sid Hazelton 09 selected 86 of us for the squad for the games to come. Of those who made the trip to Princeton only Len Clark, Charlie Dwyer, FrankGeorge, Hart Gilchrist, Chub Hetfield, and Dave Hewes are still with us, according to my records. I, an aspiring third-string tackle, didn't make the trip.

In those days men played both offense and defense. A substitute was not permitted to talk with the team until after one play. Instructions could be sent to the team only with that substitute, and the man for whom the substitution was made could not return to the game. Such were the restrictions under which the coach operated.

Reportedly we moved the ball at will just about every time we were on offense, only to be halted by the Princeton defense near the goal line. Beany Thorn, a substitute quarterback on the sidelines, told me years ago how Coach Hazelton 6 feet, 4 inches of him resplendent in tweeds and plus fours, stood mumbling in frustration at the end of one of our drives before bursting out in his stentorian voice, "They do not choose to score!" First downs made by Dartmouth were 23, by Princeton, three; final score zero to zero!

Sorry to report the loss of Charlie Hill on September 30.

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