Coaches Put Short Pants on Dartmouth--Backs and Ends in Saturday's Contest to Be Dressed Freely and Easily

Hanover, N.H., October 18. The four backs and two ends of the Dartmouth football team will resemble hockey players more than gridiron specialists when the Green goes into action against Harvard Saturday, for those six men will wear shorts with knee pads and long stockings, instead of regular football breeches. The purpose is to free the movements of the backs and ends to make greater speed possible, and to identify the men eligible to receive forward passes. The Harvard game will be the first in which the new uniforms will be worn.

The lighter fogs were used in practice last fall, and again this year, and were found entirely satisfactory, as the men were not only able to move with greater speed, but were amply protected. The line, with the exception of the ends, will play in regular football uniforms, so that the team will be in two parts, those in the familiar heavy fogs, and another group in a new abbreviated regalia, more like rugby than American football equip age.

A southern college is believed to have tried and discarded a similar uniform last year, according to The Dartmouth, but this reported failure has not deterred the Green from trying in a regular game a uniform which has been used in practice with satisfactory results.