Surprise at Columbia

We all underestimated Columbia. We felt that any team which bowed by a 52-0 score the year previous could not about face in so short a time.

What an amazing turnabout! Right off the reel after Columbia had kicked off Morton tried the center of the line. He was smacked for a one yard loss. Then Wilkin tried the same place and a Blue wall rose up in fury to smack him down for another yard loss. Later the next running play saw McCall set back five yards and after a few more kick exchanges Dartmouth again had the ball. Morton faded for his first pass of the game, and a Columbia end nailed him fifteen yards behind his scrimmage line! The sad story,

my friends, was that Dartmouth did not gain a yard on a running play during that entire first period!

And what was Columbia doing in the meantime? They were showing one of the most diversified attacks thrown against Dartmouth in years, they were tearing wide holes in the Dartmouth forward wall and they were pushing onward and onward while Dr. Eddie O'Brien was slapping fifteen and twenty-five yard penalties on them right and left for holding and clipping. It was not a softies' game.

The first quarter was 0-0, but the Dartmouth stands saw nothing to cheer over. Instead they saw Ralph Hewitt come into his own after two sorry years against Dartmouth, and they saw a Lion huddle formation as intricate as any flashed on an Eastern gridiron.