Dartmouth 62—Cornell 13

There is no question in the minds of any who saw the crucial game of the season at Hanover, November 7, but that they viewed not only one of the most spectacular but one of the finest affairs in many years of football.

This contest on which was focussed through-out the East most of the attention given to football for the day developed into a runaway with Captain Parker's team displaying the swiftest, surest, and most versatile attack ever seen on Hanover turf. Despite the indication of the score the Cornell team, strong, powerful, and well-coached, neither wilted nor crumbled. It simply was powerless as any of the best teams Dartmouth has met in recent years would have been powerless to interfere with the football played by the Green team that day, football which so closely approached perfection that debates as to the proximity become merely quibblings. The Dartmouth team had been "pointed" for this Cornell game and though handicapped by injuries was at the top of its form.

Nothing so sensational as the first period of this conflict has torn the hearts of Dartmouth cheering sections in years. Diehl kicked off for Dartmouth and after one futile essay at the line Cornell returned the ball. Mc-Phail fumbled the punt but Oberlander recovered. On the next play the celebrated "Swede" gained 17 yards. This was followed by two more rushes and a penalty before McPhail signalled for the route by air. Lane then passed to Tully for a first down on Cornell s 25 yard line. On the next play Oberlander passed to Sage for the first touchdown of the game. Tully kicked the goal. The score had been made in six plays. Dartmouth scored again a few moments later. Cornell made a first down but finding the going hard for a repetition of the feat, attempted to punt. The kick was blocked by Tully and although Cornell recovered the new interpretation of the rules gave Dartmouth the ball on the 44 yard line. Oberlander and Lane made half the distance in three rushes and a forward pass, Oberlander to Lane gained the remaining distance. Tully again kicked the goal.

Cornell then, receiving the next kickoff, began to grind out yardage by means of the justly famous off-tackle play and advanced the ball steadily to within striking distance of the Dartmouth goal line. Here a totally unexpected forward pass, Butterfield to Tilton gained 30 yards through the air and although Tilton was felled by Lane on the five yard line he managed to recover and scramble on for Ithaca's first six points. Davis and Tully blocked Carey's try for point. Cornell again exhibited its driving power after receiving the kick oil. The New York state team trampled out five first downs, on the result of a penalty, and carried the ball 85 yards to the Dartmouth two yard mark. Fratt crossed the goal line and Carey added the extra point. Shortly after this score the period ended, Dartmouth leading 14 to 13 but the devastating Cornell plunges keeping hope on ice. The Ithaca team had made seven first downs to Dartmouth's four and gained by rushing 99 yards to Dartmouth's 48. But Dartmouth had completed three passes in three attempts, two of these resulting in touchdowns.

The second period revealed the most brilliant scoring assault a Dartmouth team has ever launched or Dartmouth eyes ever looked at. Four times Dartmouth players touched the ball down behind the Cornell goal line, twice by rushing, and twice by passing. Dartmouth gathered six first downs and held Cornell to four yards of gain. The Green team accounted for 192 yards by rushing and 142 by passing. Tully unfalteringly kicked the goal after each touchdown and at the end of the half Dartmouth led 42 to 13. The first touchdown of the period was the result of passes from Oberlander to Tully and Lane. Parker recovered a fumbled punt and the ball was rushed across the line by Oberlander for the second touchdown. The third touchdown was the result of three plays in which the Green team gained 95 yards. Horton ran back the kickofif 23 yards. Lane gained 22 more. Oberlander with a 50 yard gallop carried the ball the remainder of the distance to the Cornell line. The scoring for the half was ended when Oberlander heaved a 30 yard pass to Lane who ran 25 more yards for another touchdown.

The third period produced two more touchdowns, Tully scoring both of them on Oberlander passes from mid-field. Both teams were playing a wide open game in this quarter but Dartmouth had the advantage, registering nine first downs to Cornell's three. Three intercepted passes halted the marches of both teams. A 30 yard run by Lane who intercepted a Cornell pass on his own 20 yard line was one feature of the period. This was obscured a few moments later when, after Cornell had been held for downs on, Dartmouth's ten yard line Oberlander threw, a pass which Fusonie. leaped up to seize from, among three Cornell players who surrounded him.

The final touchdown of the day was scored in the last quarter by Starrett, substitute fullback, who speared a Cornell pass and ran 40 yards for the score. Dartmouth made several substitutions in the final period of play, the game. having been designated as a "letter contest."

The. Captain Nathan K. Parker '26