Word: dartmouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven hundred lengths of the 'Cliffe pool will complete the imaginary round trip and give the winning team 25 points toward the intramural trophy. Freshman swimmers are approaching Dartmouth, while the seniors lagged too long at MIT and are now only halfway to Brown...
...instance, here's how Madar scouted Dartmouth against Penn last October 2. Around 10 o'clock on the Friday before the game, he drove from his Brookline home to the Indoor Athletic Building (where the Columbia game rally had taken place a few hours earlier) and then took the subway to South Station. Before boarding the midnight sleeper, he bought several newspapers, "to get a preliminary idea of the game and pick up some of the atmosphere." Previously he had studied all available movies of the Dartmouth team in action, and had gone over scouting reports on the Big Green...
After lunch, he ambled out to Franklin Field, taking his seat in the press box (a location already arranged for by H.A.A. Business Manager Carroll Getchell) along with scouts from every other college Penn or Dartmouth was to play...
...game started, and early in the first period, Penn's line broke through and blocked a punt deep in Dartmouth territory, while the partisan crowd went wild. Madar unemotionally wrote "weak punt defense formation" in his notebook. Since he was working the game alone, Elmer had to keep both eyes wide open. Vince Moravec accompanied him on subsequent expeditions and they were able to take turns watching the backs and the linemen...
Madar handed in his report, a 15 pageopus including diagrams, the Sunday before the Harvard-Dartmouth game. That's probably what he'll be doing next year, too. How does he like Cambridge? Fine except for one thing. Mr. and Mrs. Madar are enthusiastic bowlers--but they prefer duck plus and so far they haven't been able to locate a single one of those in captivity in the Boston-Cambridge area...