Word: dartmouth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today the coonskin of Dartmouth takes the place in the Stadium of the blue-grey ranks of the Army. The stiffness of ordered regimentation characteristic of the military gives way to the informal enthusiasm of a college released on one of its biggest holidays. One doesn't have to make an effort to welcome Dartmouth to the Yard; her students are not honored guests who are to be greeted with formality and assiduously introduced to Harvard. Two Colleges as close together as Harvard and Dartmouth don't need an introduction; and with customary Harvard indifference, formalities may be waved aside...
Following are previous scores of today's Stadium combatants Dartmouth 67Norwich 0 " 68 Hobart 0 " 53 Allegheny 0 " 34 Columbia 0 -- -- Total 222 0 Harvard 48 Bates 0 " 35 New Hampshire 0 " 20 Army 20 -- -- Total...
...DARTMOUTH...
...view of the unsettled condition in the Harvard forward line and the newness of the Harvard backfield combinations, it is very difficult correctly to judge Harvard's current strength. Dartmouth, as yet untried in the heat of superior competition, too presents a quantity difficult to gauge...
Added to both these conditions, is the lesson taught by the past history of Harvard-Dartmouth relations. One of my earliest recollections is of the great Joe Forecast, on the eve of a H-D game, with every other score correctly computed in that fine mind of his, resorting to pulling numbers out of a hat to determine the Dartmouth score! Though I was only a CRIMSON candidate then, it is a lesson which I have never forgotten...