Sports

Dartmouth 6—Harvard 0

December 1924
Sports
Dartmouth 6—Harvard 0
December 1924

Dartmouth's tie with Yale caused an unprecedented demand for Harvard game seats which were quoted as high as $50 a pair on the streets of the Hub. About 53,000 people were lucky enough to get inside the big Cambridge horseshoe and see an even game replete with thrills.

The play was fierce from the start and it was soon apparent that the Crimson jerseyed gentlemen were made of sterner stuff than their predecessors of the previous year. At the kickoff the quarterback assignment for the Green was given to Fallon and the light and shifty little pilot, taking advantage of the first of Harvard's four fumbles, directed a Dartmouth advance to the 24-yard line. Here Coach Fisher's men braced and forced Tully to try for a goal from the field which failed.

Harvard's punting superiority even against the wind was keenly felt in the first period and would have been a serious threat but for the neutralizing effect of Crimson fumbles. The second of these occurred late in the quarter on Harvard's 39-yard line. When recovered by a Dartmouth man, the pigskin was on the 28- yard mark. The second of Dartmouth's many successful forward passes took the ball to the four-yard line. Here the Green lacked the punch and the Harvard defense held for three downs forcing another Tully attempt for a field goal which was also a failure.

Harvard's: mentor used four quarterbacks during the game, apparently sending in a fresh pilot every time the strategic demands of the situation called for coachly counsel. At this p*Bint Spalding- took over the general's role. His first attempt was a forward pass which was intercepted by Holleran, Dartmouth left tackle, giving the Green a first down on Harvard's 32-yard line. Dooley had replaced Fallon at quarterback and under his direction "Red" Hall rambled around left end for 22 yards. Harvard held once but Oberlander tore through tackle for nine yards. This time the Hanoverians were not to be denied and Larry Leavitt plunged over the final white line. Dooley tried the goal but had no more luck than Tully.

The remainder of the period found the ball in Dartmouth territory but Harvard's timely fumbling saved the Green defense much work. Once Harvard's mighty Miller let the ball loose on the 20-yard line and again, a misinterpretation by the Crimson players of the first play called by McGlone, fourth Harvard quarter- back, set Coach Fisher's men back 10 yards after they had attained the four-yard line. A Harvard touchdown was avoided at this stage of the game when Dooley, making the first of a series of sensational tackles, felled Stafford who had raced from the 43-yard line to the nine-yard line after receiving a perfect forward pass from Hammond. The half ended soon after McGlone's entry into the game mentioned above.

Wearers of fur coats were almost willing to give them to any who would carry them and the unseasonable temperature made severe inroads on the players' strength as well. In the second half both teams were tired. Dartmouth was jealously guarding its six points of superiority but making no sustained effort to add thereto. Harvard was fighting with the fear of defeat in its soul but playing for the "break" which might mean victory. Neither team seemed in the best of physical condition, but Coach Hawley's men, in spite of the strenuous Yale game, were a bit the better.

Harvard almost got the looked for "break" when Hammond got away and ran from Harvard's 21-yard line to Dartmouth's 39-yard line. As he approached Dartmouth's last defender, Dooley, he seemed certain to score. Four Crimson players were running abreast. However, the Dartmouth quarterback using real football instinct skillfully feinted the interferes out of the play and brought Hammond down. A bit later Miller broke loose on the Crimson's 33-yard line and Dooley checked his advance with another crashing tackle on Dartmouth's 41-yard line. After about three plays Zarakov passed to Stafford whom Dooley tackled on the 15-yard line causing him to drop the ball.

The last period was listless as both teams were weary and the coaches were sending in substitutes to carry on the battle. The outstanding feature, was Zarakov's twisting 45- yard run-back of a punt to Dartmouth's 41- yard line where he was forced outside by Dooley.

Although Dartmouth was generally superior, the fact that it elected to be content with a one touchdown margin and voluntarily as- sumed the defensive for much of the game, makes the statistics show little difference between the two teams. Rushing netted 152 yards for Harvard and 15S for Dartmouth; forward passes gained Harvard 34 yards and Dartmouth 47. Dartmouth's superiority is shown, however, by the fact that she did not fumble while Harvard baubled four times. The Hanoverians were playing heads up football and well deserved the victory which they won. They carried out their assignments with far more snap and precision than Coach Fisher's men and proved to Harvard football followers that the Hawley victory of a year ago was no flash in the pan.

DOOLEY PREVENTS A HARVARD SCORE The Green quarterback breaks through a screen of interferers to bring down the fleet Hammond