1948

Some '48s played football for Dartmouth's varsity back in '44. Coach Earl Brown had a great '43 team when so many great navy and marine players were on the squad, but that group was largely gone when 1944 rolled around. Still, Stan Aldrich Carl Evans, Norm Laird, WaltNewman, Rollie Sontag, Carl Ward, the late Eddie Gingrich, and the late Wid Washburn (have I missed somebody?) had a 2-5-1 season including that memorable Notre Dame 0-64 squeaker in Fenway Park where speedster Newman caught that pass wide open on die Irish 10, only to have his feet go out from under him on the slippery Red Sox first base area. (Walt says he still wakes up over that one.) It was the closest the then Indians ever came to scoring in the only two grid games Dartmouth and Notre Dame ever played. That may leave Rollie as the only Dartmouth man who ever played in a football win over Notre Dame, as in 1945 he was in Dartmouth's 0-34 loss and also was on the Great Lakes N.T.S. team, which beat the Irish 13-7.

Perhaps those who were there (we can't identify them all) won't forget an intramural ice hockey championship game played in old Davis Rink between the civilians in Crosby Hall and the V-12 in Middle Mass in February 1945. Crosby was undermanned, having only seven or eight players, but no matter because indomitable Mouse Taylor was in goal and had such sterling defensemen as Gordie Maun and Hank Mueller out front. Two of the forwards were Bill Warnock and the late Walt Schubert. BillScott, the other forward, left to join Uncle Sam earlier that day, and a couple spares may have been Glen Peck and CharlieMcCarthy.

Mouse recalls being hit on the forehead by a puck in the first minute and attributes being knocked crazy as the reason he didn't allow a single goal in 60 minutes regulation. Warnock today remembers with admiration how Mouse "kicked out every shot. Unbelievable!" But Crosby couldn't score either, so it was 0-0 after 60. But Mouse thinks his spell wore off as he allowed three or four goals in overtime. Warnock and Mueller each remember scoring for Crosby, but it wasn't enough as exhausted Crosby finally succumbed. The struggle was a great game, and Hank says with pride that he still has his bronze intramural pin, which he will bring to the 50th. Remember?

One of the scariest places in Hanover during its 72 years existence was the Big Jump out on the Lyme Road. It's gone now. And going fast are the stories of many unknown, unsung Dartmouth students who over the years worked up the nerve to try it. The late lan Macartney and TedThornton were two of these. Ted remembers. "Mac and I walked out to the Big Jump one Sunday morning, both sporting magnificent hangovers. Mac said going off the thing would cure us. He went first. I don't know how long I stood at the top of that awful Trestle looking down the two tracks to oblivion. But eventually I made the move. Once you start down there's not much else you can do. I consider that one of the great moments of my life. Without Macartney I never would have done it."

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