1937

A final reminder of the mini-reunion in Hanover Sept. 24- 26. Chick Koop will speak at the Friday dinner. Michael Mastanduno, professor of government and authority on Balkan affairs, will speak at Saturday's dinner. On Memorial Field Colgate will face the Big Green.

Some undergraduate moments you never forget. One such moment is remembered 63 years later by John Merrill, who played end on Dartmouth's great 1936 football team. It was Oct. 10, 1936, on Memorial Field and Dartmouth faced a heavily favored Holy Cross 11. "I'll never forget that moment," John writes. "Dave Camerer and I had taken Jublonski out of the game with what we called a 'split,' and they sent in a substitute named Osmanksi. Later in the game we tried to run a new play that Blaik had cooked up the week before. Hollingsworth's 'lob' was a cannonball three feet over my head. Osmanski intercepted and ran 85 yards for the only score of the game. I never forgot that moment, and neither did Coach Blaik. I

kind of hoped everyone else would forget it. They gained 95 yards from scrimmage and we gained 315 yards. That's when I learned it ain't how far, it's how much luck."

As the poetic typewriter of Whitey Fuller described it in the Aegis, "Mr. William Osmanski, known as the Wild Bull of Worcester, took Dame Fortune by the hand and grabbed a deflected forward pass out of the air." Holy Cross won 7-0.

Classmates shared the sense of loss when news came of the death of '37's class secretary Carl L.N. Erdman in late April. One of Carl's many contributions to Dartmouth and to the class was to fill this monthly column in the Alumni Magazine. As this is written June 5 a new class secretary has not been named, but for someone it will certainly be a hard act to follow.

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Nude skier William Rotch '37, p. 36