1931

The March issue of DAM listing the top ten Dartmouth athletes of the twentieth century overlooked our Red Rolfe. I recall Connie Mack, manager of the old Philadelphia Athletics, being quoted on his comments on Red: "When that red-headed Yankee third baseman comes to bat, he gives us as much trouble as any of those other Yankees because of his ability to hit, at his choosing, line drives to right, left or center field, or down inside either foul line." Those "other" Yankees, during Red's tenure, included hall-of-famers Dickey, Gehrig, Lazzeri, Ruth, and Combs. Nuff said! Our new president's dictum Dartmouth is a research university in all but name, and we are not going to be deflected from our purposes—provokes questions: 1) What are those purposes? 2) How are we going to take research contracts in various fields away from such powerhouses as the other Ivies, MIT, etc., etc., each with existing, internationally known research teams? 3) What is the estimated cost of building a sales organization to secure such contracts and of maintaining it? 4) What will be the effect of having to tell undergraduates and applicants for admission that, unlike the past, considerable teaching will be done by graduate students? Other questions, readers? Frank George remembers not catching a pass that bounced oft" his chest near the Princeton goal line in that game played in Palmer Stadium. Who threw that pass?

We lost Olof Hedstrom on April 5 and Len Clark on May 2.

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The Philadelphia Athletics manager said of Red Rolfe: "When that red-headed Yankee third baseman comes to hat, he gives us as much trouble as any of those other Yankees. Ralph Maynard '31