Lynn, Sept. 26-One platoon football, which the experts say will cause more upsets than dishonest gamblers, failed completely in that respect in its local debut at the Manning Bowl here today.

Playing before approximately 10,000 in a stadium designed primarily for the use of high school boys, Holy Cross and Dartmouth went right along with the book; the Crusaders were strongly favored and as the 28 to 6 final score indicates, they were the stronger team.

The Crusaders had the passing attack, which went form the fine-throwing left halfback Gene schiller to six feet four inch end Jack Carroll. They had power though the middle with a pair of driving fullbacks-Tom Murphy and Gerry O'Leary. They had a big alert line. And they had the ability to spot the weakness in the Dartmouth line, a weakness which started near left tackle and stretched across to right tackle. They scored four times and there seemed little doubt among the more non-partisan spectators that if needed, they could have added a couple more.

For the Dartmouths it must be said that they were operating without the key to their T formation, quarterback Jim Miller. This is not an exceptional Dartmouth team, and if it is to win many football games this season it must depend on the passing of Miller and the catching of two very fine ends, Dave Thielscher and Dave McLaughlin. Miller is no Gene Howard when it comes to handling the ball, but he throws a very accurate pass.

Dartmouth missed him here today. Thielscher and McLaughlin were there, but the ball wasn't. Both in their third year of varsity ball, the responded very well to the two-way test, stopping a majority of end runs. But when it came to offensive work, a former defensive back named Henry McKenna was barely adequate on offense. Thus it would be hasty to judge the Green's passing game from this workout, for with Miller throwing to these ends, the Dartmouths will be a much more potent group.

Billy Beagle, the highly heralded young man who is reputed to do the Dartmouth punting in stocking feet for a distance of 65 yards, was undoubtedly suffering from a case of athlete's foot, for he spent the afternoon on the sidelines.

Outside of the odd little men who put some sort of orange grease on their naked chests and war-danced in front of the stands, the only other outstanding Indian was fullback Dick Jennison. The Green's top ground gainer in 1951 who was ineligible last year, Jennison hits the line like a medium-sized bulldozer, forcing his own openings, and carrying Holy Cross defenders with him.

But despite the work of Jennison and the ends, this was not Dartmouth's day. The Green's passing was weaken and the line was without the services of Mike Papantones, its best two-way player. The Cross was bigger, it had more depth, and it was further advanced.

And while almost all of the day's events could be rationalized by the Dartmouth rooters, they did have the unusual effect of somewhat silencing these normally boisterous young men from the North. And while Dartmouth coach DeOrmond McLaughry was hardly jubilant, among the interested spectators high up in Section 34, neither Lloyd Jordon, John Culver, nor Jeff Coolidge looked too unhappy.