1882-1932

It was fifty years ago on November 10 when Dartmouth sent her first football team to Cambridge. In those days there was no stadium, there was the flying "V", and Dartmouth provided opposition which, according to the Boston Globe "might possibly be able to cope with Boston Latin School." A half a century of rivalry has seen a complete reversal of conditions, it has beheld the development of football from a sport to a major business, it has bound two institutions with the thread of tradition, of mutual respect.

Three hundred and sixty four days out of the year, the word Dartmouth brings to mind the charming jumble of dirty corduroys, of snow statues, of large D's on green chests, of things, in fact, that belong to a race apart, a far cry from the Harvard man's conception of Harvard men. During the next twenty-four hours alone will Dartmouth men appear comprehensible; for after the game there comes Hanover. In its first real game, Harvard therefore welcomes today the continuation of a friendly rivalry, and the brief opportunity to observe the Dartmouth man freed of his mythical characteristics.