Word: dartmouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, at this point the only man who will definitely be out next Saturday is Doug Bradiee, whose Dartmouth game injuries were aggravated in practice last week, sending him to Stillman. Sam Butler's status is still uncertain, but he is walking around and may be ready by the end of the week...
...Dartmouth didn't wait for the Colonel to get mad. It hastily sent 2,000 key alumni a fill-in on what was up. Correspondent Griffin, the Hanover Bulletin pointed out sympathetically, "is a pleasant fellow, but there was no doubt . . . he had been sent on a mission and that he was mostly interested in proving a point. For example, he said . . . 'if the Colonel says to do a story to prove that the moon is green, we go out and prove...
Last week the Tribune's four-installment series on Dartmouth came out with a blast against the "cult of America-Last internationalism" and President Dickey's famed "Great Issues" course. The "Quality in Newspapers" exhibit seemed to hurt the Trib most...
Furthermore, the Dartmouth rebuttal had touched a tender spot. One of the alumni who saw it was none other than Tribune Managing Editor "Pat" Maloney (Dartmouth '13). The Trib promptly called Ottawa to ask Griffin about that "moon is green" crack. Griffin issued a blustering denial: "The Dartmouth bull about me was just a lot of goddamn lies by some scared, chickentrack Dickey jerks who can't contradict what I wrote. They were afraid the alumni will look into what's going on at Dartmouth, so they tried like hell to get me fired...
...despite the fact that the Crimson outplayed Holy Cross the entire game--excluding the beginning and end--the story mighty easily have been the same as against Dartmouth. That the offense frequently stalled--and even backed up--when inside the Crusader 20-yard line can be too blithely ignored in a victory...