Cornell

We had been studying the Cornell schedule for a week. The Ithacans, rated as the East's strongest team, had won six straight games, including a 33-0 walloping of Princeton and a 13-0 defeat of Columbia, Dartmouth's nemesis of 1931. Yet in all the pre-game ballyhoo we had a feeling of confidence in this Dartmouth team, a feeling that any team that had been through such a mill as the Dartmouth schedule had the quality for winning games.

It was seen that Dartmouth has one patented and copyrighted forward pass. It is the toss from Bill Morton to Wild Bill McCall which should take its place with the Oberlander-Lane and Dooley-Bjorkman flings of yesteryear.

Cornell felt the sting of this pass not once, but twice during a hectic game and was defeated 14-0.

The first score came with a swiftness that was entirely unlooked for. The teams had battled desperately during a scoreless first period when the off tackle lunges of Viviano and Ferraro, Cornell's Neapolitan twins, were being felt. But Ferraro dropped back to punt with a nonchalance that was amazing and Ward Donner was in on him fast.

As at Yale, the ball bounded off Donner's chest with a thud and the end-halfback was after it. He picked it up and started for the goal, but the quickly recovered Ferraro was in hot pursuit and Donner was brought down on the seven-yard line. A penalty of five yards was imposed on Cornell and the next play was smeared for two yards.