MoCray Man of Two Countries As Pupils Contact Teammates

There will be one man in the stands tomorrow with emotions as mixed as a martini cocktail. He is Latta McCray, guard on last year's Dartmouth Varsity and present line coach of the Harvard Freshmen.

Although he did not start in the Harvard game last fall, McCray played more than half of it at left guard, calling signals of the offense and storing up vivid memories of Messrs. Kevorkian, Boston and Wilson on the defensive.

"It may have been a one sided score," he remarked when recalling the game, but we got hit harder in that game than, any other all season." He went on to explain that the Crimson eleven gained more yardage through the Dartmouth line than did any other team all season--and only 142 yards were accredited to Harlow's charges as opposed to 333 to the Indians.

It was in that game that the much discussed incident of the Dartmouth team's stalling in the last few minutes of play occurred when Harvard was only a few yards from a touchdown.

After the game, the press cited this as one of the poorest showings of sports-manship they had seen in a long time, but when seen in the light of McCray's explanation, this charge seems extremely unfair.

With only a few minutes to play, Harvard had capitalized on two breaks to put the ball on the Dartmouth six-yard, line. At that time a third string quarterback was directing the team, and desperately searched through his fund of football lore to see how he could stage off the impending catastrophe. Then he remembered a quarterback's meeting in which he had posed the following question to Blaik:

Would it be good football to charge offside repeatedly, thus stalling for time, if the opposing team were a few yards from a touchdown?

Blaik, who at the time was preoccupied with some other business, replied in the affirmative without giving the matter much thought. It was in recalling this that the-third string back attempted to put his idea into practice.

Once the pressure of the moment was over, McCray said, they realized that such tactics are not in the best tradition of Harvard-Dartmouth relations, but one hardly ever thinks of such matters in similar circumstances.

When McCray's appointment to the Harvard coaching staff was announced in Hanover last spring, he found himself confronted with a few congratulations and many half-smiling accusations of "Traitor." He found himself the butt of many jokes, and "So you're going to coach at Harvard" became a general battle cry among his room-mates.

"But," said McCray, "the atmosphere that pervaded all around was one surprisingly free of sincere apprehension, if what I thought I felt really bore out the true stimulus-individual-reaction sequence so well know to those of scientific bent. For fundamentally the Harvard-Dartmouth relationship is one of true sportsmanship, of the highest ideals, and of the utmost good faith."

With this background in mind the realignment of himself for tomorrow's game has transpired extremely smoothly. "Here am I," he continues, "literally bubbling over with source information concerning the clash of two fine teams here in the Stadium, and probably regarded as a likely interconnecting conduit to be tapped, first come, first served."

Yet such a thing is of course impossible on the face of it for "too much tradition, too much background, too much of a substance that might correctly be termed practical idealism has gone into making that strong, staunch, yet friendly rivalry what it is today."

Leaving his professional capacity aside, McCray is tomorrow a man without a country, and this is justly so. As between two colleges there can be no greater devotion when both meet in the same fine spirit