A Typical Ithaca Thriller

Which brings us down to that great battle out at Ithaca, which showed a Dartmouth team being rocked to its very foundations by an underrated Cornell outfit which had lost to Columbia earlier in the season. The final score was 19-13, and Dartmouth won only in the final minute of the game when Shep Wolff rose to forward passing heights attained before only by the immortal Oberlander and Wild Bill McCall enjoyed his wildest day to pick the passes out of the air with sensational abandon to give Dartmouth the wreath of victory.

Cornell started with an overwhelming rush and uncorked an aerial attack which went from any back to any back and left Dartmouth bewildered. When Handleman tossed a forward to Beyer in the end zone, Dart mouth suddenly woke from its lethargy to match this score by a magnificent down-thesideline pass to Shep Wolff, who took it over for a touchdown. The second period was scoreless, but Cornell was tearing into the Dartmouth line and was ever dangerous.

In the third period Dartmouth showed their only sustained march of the entire game when they plowed 40 yards down the field with Bob Wilkin and Bill Morton in the pile-driving rfiles. Shep Wolff reversed himself over for his second touchdown and Dartmouth had a 12-6 lead as the goal was blocked.

This lead looked fairly comfortable until Cornell sent their great passer, Miles Stevens, into the game. This blond wizard, who nearly wrecked a Dartmouth team a year ago, lived up to his reputation. In the final period he threw a pass to Handleman which was good for 30 yards and a touchdown. A bedlam of Cornell voices was let loose as Capt. Hunt place-kicked the goal which gave the Big Red a 13-12 lead.

This was the crucial point of the game. You suddenly had the feeling that the Dartmouth quarterback must have looked at the score board and discovered that the Green was trailing, for quick as a flash things began to happen. It was the "last ditch" feeling and anything would have to go.

And Dartmouth took to the air. They had seen their running attack stopped, they had figured on not showing too much with the Stanford game in the offing, and yet this game had to be won.

Things started to happen when Bill Morton shot a 30-yard pass to Shep Wolfi, with Wolff tearing along to the ten-yard line, where he was brought down by Viviano of Cornell after the play had covered 63 yards from start to finish. But in three jams at the line, Dartmouth could not gain and a forward pass was grounded in the end zone to end the threat. The final minutes were ticking off, the field judge was looking at his watch.

808 WILKIN '32, FULLBACK