FOOTBALL

THE SEASON'S SCORES

Sept. 26—Dartmouth 29, M. A. C. 6.

Oct. 3—Dartmouth 74, Norwich 0. 10—Dartmouth 21, Williams 3. 17—Dartmouth 42, Vermont 0. 24—Dartmouth 12, Princeton 16. 31—Dartmouth 32, Amherst 0.

Nov. 7—Dartmouth 68, Tufts 0. 14—Dartmouth 41, Penn. 0. 21—Dartmouth 40, Syracuse 0.

The fortunes of the Dartmouth team were at their lowest ebb when it played at Princeton on Oct. 24, and as a result it lost a heart-breaking game 12-16. Dartmouth's misplays, ill-fortune, and Princeton's alertness decided the game. Dartmouth had the rather unsatisfying glory of having played its opponent up and doWn the field for rather more than three times the total ground gained by the Tiger, and whatever satisfaction was to be obtained from the assurance that the Green team, in its right mind, was the stronger of the two. Murdoch shared the individual honors for Dartmouth with Ghee. The latter brought the crowd to its feet by a seventy-yard run through the entire field for a touchdown. Captain Whitney was in poor physical condition, and lacked his usual smashing power. Injuries to Curtis forced Dartmouth to do kicking which she was ill equipped to do, and the ground lost in the exchanges was sufficient: to turn the tide. Dartmouth showed magnificent bursts of strength,, but was ragged.

The unfortunate reverse was atoned for in the succeeding games. Amherst's well-liked eleven was torn to pieces at Hanover on the following Saturday. Only one touchdown was made in the first half, when Ghee's beautiful pass to Winship brought the ball forty yards to within a foot or two of the goal line. Ghee stole over for the score. Dartmouth was not yet at the top of its form, and there were many of the faults which ruined the Princeton play, but the potential strength was as evident as before. The backs took a new start in the second half and smothered the Amherst team.

From this time on the Green was never headed, and against Tufts, Pennsylvania, and Syracuse the most staggering offensive and the coolest defensive football that any critic could demand was developed. After the Tufts game, Coach Whelan of the losing eleven, himself a Dartmouth man, commented on the Green team, Dartmouth has the best team I have ever seen on a college gridiron. The team's offensive play is wonderful, and the defensive is fully equal to it". Long runs by practically the entire Dartmouth backfield, protected by splendid interference, dynamic line-bucking by Curtis, Gerrish and Whitney, accurate handling of the ball, even during the snow flurry of the last quarter, and the desperate efforts of the visitors to stem the tide, made the game the most interesting, if not the closest played game of the fall. The Dartmouth line played as a unit, charging the moment the ball was snapped, and smearing in their tracks the heavy Tufts backfield. With the second team in from the start of the second half, the result was the same. Dartmouth's ends were much improved, and Redfield and Winship putting up a hard and accurate defensive game.

The Pennsylvania game was a repetition of the Tufts game. Dartmouth completely outclassed her heavier rival, and after the first period the afternoon's play resolved itself into exhibition football. An interesting sidelight lay in the fact that Dartmouth's 41 points was the exact sum which had been demanded by a widely quoted Boston sporting writer as the price of consideration on terms with the Harvard eleven. The day was Whitney's, Ghee s and Murdock's. Whitney's punting was exceptional, and his line-plunging was only surpassed by his brilliant defensive work. Ghee was handicapped by a bad knee, but nevertheless played a brilliant game. Murdoch's plunging was aweinspiring. Spears, of whom so much had been expected all season, came through with a will against Pennsylvania, and disposed of Dorizas, the Greek strong man and wrestler in the most interesting line duel of the year.

Dartmouth's season closed brilliantly at the Fenway Park in Boston, where before 15,000 people the Green team showed a host of friends that it had everything that was claimed for it. The Syracuse team was the heaviest aggregation that Dartmouth met through the year, and its backs and ends were fast and clever. However, the New York team was played off its feet by the brilliant tactics of the Dartmouth team in a most unusual game—unusual because the general play was so good there could hardly be said to have been any stars. Dartmouth was a magnificently coached eleven at this stage of the game; and it developed all kinds of football. In totalling 40 points against a team which had defeated Michigan, which in turn had held Harvard to one touchdown, the Green showed that it was a dangerous opponent for any team in the country. Whatever the foreign critics do with the team, the undergraduates and the alumni had every reason to be entirely satisfied with it. The feat of scoring 149 points while holding the opponents safe in the last three weeks of the season is, as far as can be learned, an unprecedented one.