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Both teams were hampered by the rain, for opposing coaches Bob Blackman of Dartmouth and Alva Kelley of Brown are stressing aerial games this year. The ball was as elusive for the backs as the cocktail shakers and beer cans seemed adhesive to the grasps of the gala throng. The backwoodsmen were in town again...
Dartmouth's new football coach Robert Blackman, joined yesterday with Bolles and Rolfe in calling the infractions "minor" and "of no consequence." Blackman attended a meeting of the eight Ivy football coaches at Columbia last week and reported that, although spring practice was discussed in general, no mention was made of the Dartmouth incident...
...blamed the infraction on the ignorance of his assistants of Ivy regulations, "We'd been at the college only a short while when this happened," Blackman said yesterday, referring to himself, and new line, backfield, and freshman coaches. Blackman came from Denver University to succeed Tuss McLaughry as head football coach this winter...
...This is a small town and every professor and student was asking about the incident almost before we could stop it," Blackman explained. "Since then we've been extra careful to abide by the rules...
Football players may workout informally among themselves, but sessions with coaches are banned except for the one-day spring meeting, he said. To his knowledge, Blackman continued, players have not been eating or holding "special" sessions with their coaches since the February incident...