Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-02
Dartmouth Grid
Ace Quits Game
For Religion
Gates Gives Up School
Fearing Temptation
Of Athletics
BY the Associated Press.

AMHERST. N. H.. Nov. 2.-Inter-
collegiate football, the violence of
which conflicts with his unorthodox
religious convictions. appeared Ear
behind Harrington Gates today as
that great Dartmouth blocking back
prepared for his humble tasks here
on the lonely and hilly poultry farm
headquarters of the colony of the
Legion Of God.
Authorities of the law and his COL
lege. when satisfied that Gates. the
brilliant student and football super
star. had left Dartmouth voluntarily
and without compulsion, reluctantly
withdrew and left him to practice
the passive tenets of his little known
cult.
Remorseful Over Grid Play.
Apparently remorseful over yield
ing to footballs temptation last
week, when he rejoined the squad
and, despite only three days prac-
tice, starred against Yale, Gates
wrote out one-line resignation to
Dean Lloyd K. Neidlinger and
slipped out of Hanover Sunday.
A few hours earlier he had dined
at the training table with his team
mates, participating eagerly in their
conversation, which conferred about
their next major game against Cor
nell.
The previous night. before the un-
beaten Dartmouth squad left New
Haven. he had confided to his close
friend, Robert (Whitey) Fuller, the
Dartmouth athletic publicity di-
rector, of the happiness he found
playing against Yale and of his re-
grets that he had not reported on
the first day of practice.
When Dean Neidlinger, Fuller,
Sheriff Richard M. ODowd of Hills
boro County and others visited Gates
yesterday, he told them he intended
to remain with his co-religionists
because he was uncertain that he
could remain in college and resist
the temptation of football"
In Cult Two Years.
Neidlinger said it was known
Gates embraced the cult about two
years ago and that he spent his
last two summer vacations here in
stead of at his Saugus, Mass, home.
Fuller explained he had urged Coach
Earl Blaik to permit Gates to re-
join his squad and that the latter
consented only after much thought
and with the hope it would help
him to round a corner of his life. -
Sheriff ODowd said the colony
consisted Of weather. beaten one
story dwelling and two poultry
barns. He estimated the number
of residents at about Is and said
most of them were engaged in
salvaging hurricane-felled timber
about the premises.
Neidlinger and Fuller said Gates
wore overalls, work shoes and d
ragged jacket and they agreed he
appeared tired and under severe
mental stress"
Mother Shocked, But Proud.
At her Saugus, Mass, home, Mrs.
Elder Gates, the athletes mother,
said: Shocked as we are over this
strange decision, we are all still
proud of Harry. When we get our
breath we'll all 60 to him and see if
there is anything we can do.
my son is one of the most honest
boys that ever lived. I know he
thinks he is doing what he believes
to be right. What we may try to
advise him to do is really our own
story now.
Il want things to quiet down so
we can 60 to see him without any
fuss We want to hear all about it
directly from him."
Gates is one of II children. His
father is employed at the General
Electric Co. in Lynn, Mass.