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...roles of the villainous favorites, but they will have a chance to get back at the "little man" for his centuries of oppression and triumph. They will be playing to efface the memory of the defeats of favorites. They will be fighting to send these eleven cocky underdog Dink Stovers back to New-Haven with their bulldog tails between their legs, and to prove for once and all that the favorites can be heroes...
...made track fans blink. A broad-shouldered, slim-hipped six-footer. Steers has been a jumping freak since he was so high. As a ten-year-old Palo Alto schoolboy, he cleared the bar at 5 ft. 4 in. Spotted by Stanford's star-eyed Track Coach Dink Templeton, the little jumping jack had his style changed from the childish scissors to the Western roll (going over parallel with the bar). By the time he was an eighth-grader, young Steers could jump 6 ft. 2 in., competed with San Francisco's famed Olympic Club in big-time...
...Freshmen today with the exception of Jimmy Dodge who has been moved to the second midfield. His place on the opening defense will be taken by Charley Purintin. As before, Jay Hurley and Ed Mahoney, the only Freshman scorers in the rout at Deerfield, will team with "Dink" Donahue at the attack...
...Dink Stover protested (before he was tapped) that Tap Day was "ridiculous rigmarole." Twenty years later Richard Storrs Childs, '32 (now publisher of Modern Age Books), also denounced "the Elks in our midst," shortly afterward accepted election to Keys. In 1933 the entire junior class revolted, stayed stubbornly in their rooms on Tap Day. The societies pursued them to their rooms, had no trouble filling their quotas. Next year, Tap Day returned to the campus. This year the Political Union held an unprecedented public debate, resolved (3840-17) that "the influence of the senior societies...
Nevertheless when Tap Day dawned last week, a Dink Stoverish excitement seized Yale's campus. In the News, Chairman Kingman Brewster Jr. scolded: "Just as in the case of the more discreet years, the society question has managed to dislocate life around here to an insane degree. . . . Six o'clock will bring a general sigh of relief and a sudden realization that after all the day of judgment is still a matter for the Gods and not 90 Yale...