Brown and Cornell
Sporting writers predicted the complete collapse of the Dartmouth football team. Al Marsters lay in the hospital, out of the picture, and sharing his room was his great interfering back, Len Clark, who had two broken ribs. Clark had suddenly caved in on the eve of the Yale game, and had been rushed to the Hartford Hospital where it was discovered that he had been working with the team all week on sheer grit after having been injured in the Harvard game,
Dartmouth faced Brown at Providence in a somewhat dubious state. Tommy Long- necker started the game, and a Bruin player blocked one of his punts in the very first pe- riod, which gave Brown a 6-0 lead. Shortly afterward, Bill Morton came on the scene. Morton is a husky sophomore who was much favored by the coaches, but who never had a real chance as long as he was subbing for Marsters. Under Morton's driving power, Dartmouth scored two touchdowns to beat the Bear at Providence 13-6.
It was a dull, colorless game, and suffered in comparison with the Yale game of the week previous. Dartmouth went back to straight football, and the Dartmouth line played one of]the greatest'games to date. Booma, Cole, Bromberg, Andres, Nims, Armstrong and Yudickey played every minute of the game with the exception of a last second substitution of Barber for Cole. They met the Bear's rushes, and enabled Morton to score his touchdowns. Forward passes were thrown, with McCall and Aarne Frigard doing good work.
Cornell provided the real thrills for the hundreds of house party guests at Hanover. A rugged Cornell team, coached to an undefeated record by Gil Dobie, invaded Memorial Field to meet Dartmouth, which for the first time was rated as the underdog. After a scoreless first period, Dartmouth broke the ice when Gay Bromberg broke through a wall of Cornell men to block a punt. snatched the ball away from three Red men and scored a touchdown, putting the Green in the van 6-0.
This supremacy did not last long. Cornell, spirited upwards by an amazing forwardpassing attack, took to the air and scored two touchdowns, the second on a beautiful forward pass from Stevens to Johnson, the latter running 50 yards to the touchdown. Cornell was ahead 14-6, as their Capt. Wakeman ponderously booted both goals, and the future looked bad for the Green.
Wild Bill McCall was the Dartmouth hero. This young fellow, playing his first year of varsity football, was highly touted at the start of the season, and he fulfilled the best of expectations by putting on a running attack with Bill Morton which took the Big Red's breath away. He snatched a 30 yard pass, and then cut through tackle for 20 more to put the ball in excellent position for Morton to carry it over. The situation was now something like the Yale game, as Cornell battled into the fast falling darkness to protect their two point lead.
And as "at Yale, Stevens, the Cornell half- back gambled with a forward pass, as the watch ticked away the closing seconds of the game. McCall jumped high in the air and intercepted, being downed on Cornell's 40 yard line.
With two minutes to play, Dartmouth rose to the football heights again. Seven times in a row Bill Morton hit the Cornell line, and the last time he entered the promised land over a Red charge which did everything in its power to hold him back. Dartmouth had scored a touchdown on the last play of the game, and what matter if the goal was again missed, for two thousand Dartmouth undergraduates were able to lift a gallant, starless team to their shoulders in an 18-14 jubilation over Cornell.
