THE FOOTBALL SEASON
Intense satisfaction that no Carlisle defeat can greatly disturb is the feeling of most Dartmouth undergraduates in looking back over the football records of the year. For three years the present generation had seen the team win every game on the schedule until Princeton and Harvard were encountered. Then the team lost. This year, with everything to excuse defeat, a light line, a dearth of substitutes, many serious injuries, and four, long, wearisome journeys out of town, Captain Hogsett's eleven fought through the year, overcame the many handicaps and won the two games that meant the most to the undergraduates. Princeton and Pennsylvania were beaten. The defeat by the Indians was a disappointment, but it could not dim the earlier victories. The Carlisle game meant a championship, but the traditions and friendly college rivalry of other games was missing. The "Diminutive Big Green Team" could not do everything, but it did beat Princeton and Pennsylvania.
DARTMOUTH 6—PRINCETON 0
Yielding before the terrific line plunging of the Green backfield, losing on every exchange of punts, outwitted by the Green quarterbacks, Princeton lost to Dartmouth, October 25, on Osborn Field by the score of 6-0. The field was in terrible condition from hours of heavy rains. Men skidded about in helpless fashion. The open game was impossible and straight line bucking and a kicking contest resulted. In both departments, Captain Hogsett's eleven clearly excelled. The single score came in the third period when, after a checkered march from midfield to the Princeton 2-yard line, Llewellyn, on the fourth down, grabbed the ball and darted around right end for the touchdown. Curtis's punting, Whitney's line, bucking, and Dunbar's accurate passing of the wet ball were the features of the game.
A great bonfire was held in Hanover after news of the victory. President Nichols, Professor Lingley, and Mr. Theller made speeches from the steps of College Hall to the riotously happy crowd.
DARTMOUTH 21—AMHERST 7
A reaction from the previous game caused no end of worry when the team played at Amherst. Coach Cavanaugh had many substitutes in the line, but they were replaced quickly enough when Amherst developed surprising strength in the second quarter scored once and from then on threatened to hold even the regular eleven to a tie score. That the men were suffering from a bad slump was evident to everyone.
DARTMOUTH 34—PENNSYLVANIA 21
Before 30,000 people, the team won its last victory of the year, defeating the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, November 8. It was the climax of the year for the Dartmouth eleven. Except for a short time in the first period and a few bad minutes in the third, the big Green team outclassed its opponents, bewildering them by brilliant forward passes and unexpected onside kicks. The open game has had no better exponents than in the two teams that played that day.
CARLISLE 35—DARTMOUTH 10
The long concealed, almost forgotten weakness of this year's team came to light in a startling fashion when the Carlisle Indians, giving up all pretense at playing the open game, resorted to old-style football against the Dartmouth line. They hammered away monotonously, wearing down the lighter defense, slowly at first, then in the second half more quickly, in the third and fourth periods, four easy marches down the field netted them as many touchdowns against the helpless Green team. Captain Hogsett's field goal and a well executed forward pass, Ghee to Loudon, gave Dartmouth its ten points in the first half.
COMPLETE SCORE:
Dartmouth 13—Mass. State 3 Dartmouth 53—Colby 0. Dartmouth—Norwich, cancelled. Dartmouth 33—Vermont 7. Dartmouth 48—Williams 6. Dartmouth 6—Princeton 0. Dartmouth 21—Amherst 7. Dartmouth 34—Pennsylvania 21. Carlisle 35—Dartmouth 10. Dartmouth total, 218 Opponents total, 79
