Harvard Lateral Passes Again Wreck Dartmouth Eleven, 14-6; Marsters and McCall Flash
The unexpected defeat of Dartmouth by Harvard, last Saturday, brought the crimson again into the limelight, and showed that Arnold Horween's pupils are headed for a definite goal this year.
However, even if Dartmouth went down, 14 to 6, the green still remains a powerful outfit, and yielded to Harvard only in the last stages of the game, when a crimson offensive got underway for a 60-yard march to the goal. The Harvard lateral passes, which many declared at the beginning of the season to be dead with the graduation of Guarnaccia and French, again blossomed into full bloom, and Hughley, Harper and Gilligan all carried on.
MARSTERS STARS, BUT McCALL, SHARES HONORS
The individual work of the veteran A1 Marsters, as well as Wolff and Clark, stood out, and Dartmouth has a rising young football player by the name of McOall who should make a name for himself. It took the old guard to produce Dartmouth's first and only touchdown in the second period, due to a superb forward pass, Marsters to Wolff, but it was a second-string backfield, which included MeCall, that produced the real thrills of the game. With the score in Harvard's favor by a single point, McCall and Clark did a tandem act which had Harvard all but on her beam ends, but the crimson finally pulled itself together when Dartmouth was dangerously close to the goal.
One must not discount that Dartmouth team. Like many of its predecessors, the green made the fatal mistake of lapsing at the start of the game, and the result was that Harvard had a touchdown in the first five minutes of play. Several Dartmouth faces appeared in strange places. Ed O'Connor, who came here as a tackle last year, started at end, and played a really fine game.
GREEN INTERFERENCE NOTCLEANING OUT THOROUGHLY
He caught one Marsters pass for a 30-yard gain in the second period and was surprisingly fast down under punts. Marsters did not look natural in the quarterback position, but the Oannell system seems to call for a four-man running backfield and the Marsters-WolffOlark-Sutton combination did fairly well. Dartmouth, however, has not learned to interfere as it did in the old days. There were several cases where a backfield man. failed utterly to carry out his assignment, with the result that the runner was thrown for an unjustified loss, or stopped for a small gain when he deserved more.
Barber the 235-pound tackle, teamed well with Capt. Armstrong, and Bromberg was a tower of strength at guard. Despite the quality of these players, the Dartmouth line was not so strong as it should be. Harvard was able to make appreciable gains through it from time to time, and Putnam chose his plays in such a way that the green defence was fooled completely on several occasions.
Both teams played cautious football for the greater part of the game, and Harvard only cut loose when it scored the final touchdown, which was unnecessary to the final score. Dartmouth will now face Yale with all of her regulars in shape, but she seems again to be facing the blue jinx, which says that a green team can never win in the bowl.
