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When the crowds milled down Boylston St. for the game the next afternoon, the Dartmouth staffers among them were surprised to see a pre-game issue circulated and shocked to read that their football coach had resigned that morning due to ill health. So was Tuss. Only the CRIMSON were not surprised...
Proponents of the plan, including Dartmouth Coach DeOrmond "Tuss" McLaughry, have hold that freshmen would benefit because they would be under the immediate close supervision of the varsity coaches. In the fall, the varsity staff has little or no time to devote to the freshmen...
There were a great many comments on the questionability of Dartmouth's defensive tactics last Saturday after Princeton's Dick Kazmaler was removed from the game with a slight concussion. Princeton Coach Charley Caldwell refused to shake hands with Dartmouth's Tuss McLaughry after the battle. But Middlebury Coach Duke nelson and Globe sportswriter Ernie Roberts, who attended the game, pointed out at the luncheon that several Big Green players had also been badly injured "Caldwell was just upset," said Roberts. "Dartmouth looked no rougher than most good defensive ball clubs I've seen...
...Tuss McLaughry's Indians may not find things quite that easy this afternoon. No one really knows whether Harvard was playing far over its head in last week's one-point win over Army, or whether it was at last playing the football of which it is capable. But edging West Point proved at least that an upset against Dartmouth is not beyond the realm of possibility. Lioyd Jordan and his players feel that today's is the critical game to start making 1951 a relatively successful or fairly unsuccessful season...
This unusual and refreshing modesty is not altogether unfounded. To date Tuss McLaughry's team has played some pretty fair football and in so doing has upset both Army and Syracuse. But it has also dropped two games decisively to the not surpassingly strong teams of Fordham and Pennsylvania. And the remaining schools on McLaughry's schedules are Yale, Columbia, Cornell, and Princeton-none of whom are expected, even by the most ardent Hanoverian, to roll over and play dead...