{"id":176632067,"date":"2014-01-21T16:59:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/squashword.wpengine.com\/?p=176632067"},"modified":"2014-01-21T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:59:04","slug":"earliest-college-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632067","title":{"rendered":"Earliest College Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a link from a college classmate of some footage from 1934 put together by Dartmouth College. Without sound, it features a number of well-known personalities at Dartmouth in that era, including football coach Red Blaik who had just arrived on campus, Jose Orozco working on his murals and Dick Remsen &#8217;12 (father of the 1952 national doubles champion) cross-country skiing at Winter Carnival.<\/p>\n<p>Around the 6:40 mark, there are shots of &#8220;the popular new recreational game&#8221; of squash. Evidently, the squash courts at Dartmouth were built earlier than we thought. (The first official coach was Tom Dent in 1937-38, when the team went 6-4.) Here we have C.L. Gilligan, the Dartmouth tennis coach, serving as &#8220;squash coach.&#8221; Wearing all-white, Gilligan has an old Indian symbol on his shirt and nicely pulled-up shorts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Life and Personalities at Dartmouth (R6), 1934\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eNQVtAsCNTk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got a link from a college classmate of some footage from 1934 put together by Dartmouth College. Without sound, it features a number of well-known personalities at Dartmouth in that era, including football coach Red Blaik who had just arrived on campus, Jose Orozco working on his murals and Dick Remsen &#8217;12 (father &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/?p=176632067\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Earliest College Footage<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176632067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176632067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176632067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176632067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176632067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176632067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squashword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176632067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}