Dartmouth 24 — B. U. 0
A dissertation in the manner of the eighteenth century novelists might well be written on the dethronement of pessimism and discouragement by optimism and encouragement arising from an incident such as the football game of Oct. 13 with Boston University. The Dartmouth team which the week before had appeared careless lackadaisical, and slipshod in its methods performed carefully, crisply, and with a dash that made professional spectators experience an exhilaration the like of which had not been felt for a decade. There was a drive and a fierceness in the play of the Dartmouth team that has been missing in Hanover for a number of years that is painful to reflect upon. Not only at the beginning of a half, or when pressed, or desperate, but from start to finish the Green team played hard football, running, and tackling, and interfering not with the dogged determination that for a long time has seemed to have taken the place of the former zest and fire, but with something of the older zest and fire itself. Backfield men smashed and darted through the line and around the ends and linesman threw the opposing line back whereas, it is now apparant, the teams of the past few years have been struggling through and pushing back the opposition. There is a vast difference. To at least one spectator the game with Boston was the most encouraging Dartmouth football seen since the Colgate game of 1919.
Boston University brought to Hanover a team of veteran players admirably drilled by coach Whelan, and reported to be the best outfit the Massachusetts institution has ever put on the field. It was a much better team than Dartmouth is accustomed to meeting at this stage of the season. In justice to the visitors it must be recalled that the Hanover contest was the first of their season and the superior condition of the Dartmouth team showed in the final quarter of the game when two touchdowns were scored.
Dartmouth's first score came in the second period. During the latter part of the first period the Green team had carried the ball from Boston's 43-yard line, where Haws intercepted a forward pass, to the 2-yard line. From this point Calder made a yard and a half, and Dooley carried the ball through the center of the line for the remaining half-yard. Haws kicked the goal. Three points more were added to the Dartmouth score when in the middle of the third period Captain Aschenbach successfully kicked a goal from placement on the 40-yard line. Murphy recovered a fumble for Dartmouth following the next kick-off, and the ball was taken to the Boston 15-yard line before the end of the quarter. A penalty for Boston at the opening of the final period further aided the Dartmouth attack, and Kelley scored the second touchdown of the afternoon, Haws again kicking the goal.
The final score of the game came in a somewhat similar manner when Kelley made a 25-yard gain and Ahlquist added another first down, which brought the ball close to the Boston goal line. Here again, a penalty was inflicted on the visiting team and Kelley repeated his earlier scoring performance. Kelley added the final try for point. Dartmouth was within a few yards of its fourth touchdown at the final whistle.
Harris at right end and Wheeler at center were particularly strong points in the Boston line, while in the backfield Captain Cochrane, one of the best backfield men in the east, with Williamson and Carlson, were constant sources of worry and danger.
