ATHLETICS

Dartmouth 47—Temple 7

Dartmouth with big-game spirit and midseason form met a highly rated Temple University eleven October IS and vanquished the invader 47-7. Myles Lane, in his third year of varsity football, led the attack by scoring 34 points. Hamm and Jeremiah scored the other points for Dartmouth.

It was no wonder that the team which, in Philadelphia was being acclaimed the "wonder team," could not live up to its advance notices when it was playing an inspired eleveninspired by the fear of defeat at the hands of an opponent of unknown strength. The Big Green line heretofore heralded as weak charged with a vengeance and aided by fine blocking on the part of Capt. MacPhail and Hamm it laid open paths for the fleet Lane and Marsters.

Dartmouth ran up a total of fourteen first downs to four for the Templars, completed seven out of fifteen attempts at forward passing, three going for touchdowns, and gained 539 yards by rushing. Temple scored its only touchdown in the last quarter when Bonner picked up a Dartmouth fumble on his own 13 yard line and raced 87 yards for the score.

Dartmouth 30—Harvard 6

In the 31st encounter with Harvard the laurels rest with Dartmouth and were acquired in a decisive way, by the score of 30-6. Superb generalship on the part of Capt. MacPhail coupled with fine coordination in the line enabled Al Marsters and Myles Lane to race around the Harvard ends for consistent gains and several touchdowns. The game was played before a throng of 55,000—the largest ever to watch a contest in the stadium.

Dartmouth made 19 first downs on rushing the ball to 8 by Harvard. The total number of yards by rushes gave Dartmouth an overwhelming lead, 358 to 159 for Harvard. Marsters alone carried the ball more than 159 yards. The press were unanimous in their praise of George Cole for his work at end. Dick Black, who was seriously injured in the Allegheny game, was still unable to play and Hamm, a sophomore, filled his position at full back with a high degree of credit to himself.

The touchdowns were made by Lane 2, Cole, Swarthout, and for Harvard, Crosby. Phillips made a goal from the field in the second quarter. Twenty of Dartmouth's points were made in the final quarter so that the game did not at all appear to be "on ice" in the earlier periods. By beating Harvard by a margin of 24 points this 1927 eleven has set a record. The nearest approaches to it came in 1907 when Dartmouth 'won 22-0 and in 1925 when the team from Hanover won 32-9.

It is an evidence of the fine feeling existing in every way between Harvard and Dartmouth that this great contest is becoming one of the football classics in the East.

Dartmouth o—Yale 19

Rejoicings over the victory at Cambridge were cut short by a clean-cut defeat at New Haven the next Saturday when Yale held the versatile Dartmouth backs in check and pounded out a 19-0 win. A strong Yale line—called by the press the greatest in two decades of Yale football—playing the hard and aggressive sort of football that denies yardage to the opponents' offense and drives the length of the field for its own touchdowns, out-played the Dartmouth forward wall.

But if the Big Green were out-played there was no sign of weakening and while the margin of difference as indicated by the score was great there was only slight margin of difference between victory and defeat for either team. Dartmouth missed three scoring opportunities which, if realized, would have made the game an even proposition. Marsters contributed the greatest individual play of the game when he intercepted a Yale pass on his own 38-yard line in the first quarter and ran 54 yards to the Yale 8-yard line.

Caldwell and his substitute, Garvey, gained almost as consistently through the Dartmouth line as had Lane and Marsters the week before against Harvard. Garvey made two of the Yale touchdowns and Caldwell the other.

Dartmouth 19—Brown 7

Two marches in which the forward pass was the main weapon and a 70-yard run from scrimmage by Marsters gave Dartmouth 19 points in its annual clash with Brown. The Providence team, playing on its home field, scored its only touchdown in the closing minutes of play following a Dartmouth fumble deep in its own territory.

During most of the game the dogged Brown linemen checked the Dartmouth running attack, but the secondaries were not as successful in stopping the Big Green passing game. A pass from Marsters to Hamm put the ball on the Brown 5-yard line early in the second period and Marsters scored on the old "Statue of Liberty" play. Shortly afterward the fleet sophomore, running from kick formation, hit left tackle and broke into the open with two interferers still ahead of him. The Bruin secondary was flattened and Marsters dodged Cornsweet and Randall to run for a touchdown. Aided by Lane and Hamm, Marsters was instrumental in scoring the third touchdown on an 80-yard march down the field.

Dartmouth 53—Cornell 7

The story of the last game of the present season is a fine one to tell but words are inadequate to describe the precision and finesse with which the team dispensed with Cornell, piling up 53 points to the visitors' 7. Myles Lane added 23 points to his remarkable scoring record for the season, and his high total of 125 breaks the existing records for individual scoring in one season. Al Marsters, who has been the particular bright light of the Dartmouth team all year, heaped glory and renown upon himself by his passing, punting, and by two sensational runs which will live in Dartmouth football history as long as Hanover men gather to talk it.

One of these runs came on the kickoff following the second Dartmouth touchdown. Hamm caught the kick on his 10-yard line. He carried it five yards and then tossed it laterally to Marsters who weaved his way through the entire Cornell team for the 85 yards between the point where he received the pass from Hamm and the Cornell goal line. His other great run was one of 62 yards in running back a punt. This seemingly impossible run resulted in the first score of the game. Myles Lane shone throughout by his receiving of forward passes and several times he broke away for long gains.

Dartmouth completed 23 passes out of 40 attempts, five of which brought touchdowns. Dartmouth made 23 first downs to 8 for Cornell. Touchdowns were scored by: Lane 3, Marsters 2, Hamm 2, Cole, and for Cornell, Hockelman, who scored in the final quarter after a Cornell march from its own 40-yard line.

The great Dartmouth victory over Cornell November 12 closed a highly successful football season for the Big Green. Sweeping victories over Temple, Harvard, Brown and the 53-7 rout of Cornell atone for the 19-0 defeat received at the hands of Yale.

Conspicuous throughout the season has been the high degree of team work and cooperation shown among the members of the Dartmouth squad. Interference for a ball-carrier has not stopped at blocking one man, but the interfering linemen and backs have often taken one opponent out of the runner's path only to dash on and block another. The green material that Coach Hawley was confronted with in September has been rounded into a near-championship eleven. Coaching skill plus an indomitable team spirit have made this possible.

The laurels of stardom must go to Alton Marsters, who, in his Sophomore year, gives promise of becoming one of the great figures in Dartmouth football history. Less spectacular, but no less valuable, has been the playing of Capt. MacPhail and Myles Lane, two veterans of the undefeated 1925 team. Lane stands as the East's highest scorer. Phillips, guard, has made a banner year of his third and last season for the varsity.

In addition to Lane, MacPhail, and Phillips these men have also played their last game for Dartmouth: Cole, Edgar, Fusonie, Gow, KillKelley, Langdell, McAvoy, and Phelan.

Dartmouth 30-Harvard 6 Lane scoring his first touchdown

Dartmouth 30-Harvard 6 Marsters carrying the ball on an end run, with perfect interference

Dartmouth o-Yale 19 Marsters on his 60-yard run after intercepting a Yale pass

Dartmouth o-Yale 19 Marsters (4) to Lane (35)