Table of Contents

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2007

125 YEARS OF FOOTBALL

56 SPECIAL SECTION

58 That Championship Season

There have been other Ivy titles and undefeated, seasons for Dartmouth, but football in the fall of 1970 was something special. BY RALPH WIMBISH

64 Fantastic Four

Four eras. Four players. Four stories. BY C.J. HUGHES '92

68 The Ultimate DartmouthFootball Player

Big Green victories have been hard to come by lately. If only coach Buddy Teevens '79 had these guys ready to go for the coming season. BY BRUCE WOOD

70 Unforgettable!

The most famous contest in Dartmouth football history? The 1940 game against Cornell. Here's a look back at that and other memorable games.

DEPARTMENTS

12 LETTERS

Notebook

28 CAMPUS

What's happening around the Green.

34 OFF CAMPUS

Salvador Allende Gossens Prizewinners gather in New York. BY C.J. HUGHES '92

36 YOUNG ALUMNI

Recent graduates cant easily let go of their College lives, even four or five years after earning their degrees and hitting the real world. BY AMORY LORING '04

38 CLASSROOM

Edward Gerger's genetics class examines the intersection where science and society come into conflict. BY JUDITH HERTOG

42 INTERVIEW

Jeffrey Immelt '78, General Electrics CEO, talks about making profits by going green. BY JACQUES STEINBERG '88

44 PERSONAL HISTORY

An anonymous benefactor leads a grateful alum to make the promise of a lifetime. BY ATHENA MAIKISH '00

46 OUTSIDE

Outside Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, an old voice from the wilderness gets his due. BY ALEXANDER NAZARYAN '02

50 TRIBUTE

A Joyce scholar tips his hat to English professor Peter Bien. BY ROBERT H. BELL '67

Alumni News

74 SEEN & HEARD

82 THE CLASSES

116 CLUBS

117 OBITUARIES

Continuing Ed 128

Law prof Pamela R. Metzger '87 on constitutional rights and the need for public defenders. BY LISA FURLONG

ON THE COVER Illustration by C.F. Payne

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