Old grads reminisced on the campus, cocktails flowed down dry threats, and fire trucks escorted a comely Wheaton beauty into Aldrich Stadium. It was homecoming at Brown, and the side attraction was the Brown-Dartmouth football game.

The contest was a close, hard-fought affair with Brown's junior fullback, Bob Minnerly, scoring the only touchdown on a third-quarter plunge into the end zone. Billy Cronin kicked the extra point to give the home team a 7-0 victory over the visitors from Hanover.

Later this fall the Crimson varsity plays both these teams, which are in a rebuilding stage and depend largely on the aggressive but often faulty play of numerous sophomores. Two of the Bruins' stars, halfback Tommy "T.D." Thompson and all-Ivy League tackle Jimmy McGuiness, agreed that the Green "hit harder than Yale or Columbia and their backs ran surprisingly well." But Thompson queried, "We certainly tied up Beagle, didn't we?" And they did. His passes gained only 79 yards Saturday, compared to his previous average of more than 125 per game.

Both teams were hampered by the rain, for opposing coaches Bob Blackman of Dartmouth and Alva Kelley of Brown are stressing aerial games this year. The ball was as elusive for the backs as the cocktail shakers and beer cans seemed adhesive to the grasps of the gala throng. The backwoodsmen were in town again.

Throughout the contest, Blackman, the new Green coach from Denver University, had Dartmouth using his specialty, the V-formation. Kelley described it this way: "It looks like our split-T when they line up except for the fullback, who places himself about two yards behind either guard. It gives a team single wing power to the strong side, while retaining the explosiveness of the split-T quick openers." Kelley added that Blackman used the fullback predominantly as the lead blocker or as a ball carrier on counter and reverse plays.

The Crimson will face stiff opposition from both of these teams. Leo McKenna, sidelined by a broken wrist, may be back in action in another two weeks to share the Green quarterbacking duties with Beagle. With a good pair of ends and some hard-charging sophomores, the team is still eagerly looking for its first victory.

And, as Kelley said after his team's first victory, "We've still got Thompson, Williams, and Cronin to carry the ball. Our quarterbacks, Demehak and Balough, both look very good. If our line starts to block downfield, and if we can get our ends to hold onto the ball, we'll do all right."