Something else that has never been done before in Hanover was the announcement of a coaching staff such as that which was pulled out of the hat last night. We can already see the Harvard Crimson, from their Ivy-League Cellar, tut-tutting the choice of All-Americans Bevan and Barley, the drafting of a Cassiano from the pro ranks. For the Crimson has often seemed to operate on the principle that Ivy League football is all right so long as it isn't good football.
We think that the selection of such a staff on proven competence and experience, the selection of Charley Ewart and Dick Casssiano, for instance, on the same staff, can be an excellent shot in the arm for Ivy League football. There has been an increasing tendency toward a stuffy smugness in the non-existent league, a tendency to shout down its own rain barrel persistently in an attempt to justify sloppy half-hearted football with a lace collar of gothic-tower dignity. There is the gentlemanly nonsense which leads a Harvard man to beaming play patty-cake over the fact that although the season was one big set-back, "after all, we did beat Yale." The Dartmouth
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Drift or Mastery
