Sports

Cornell Non-Plussed and No Wonder

DECEMBER 1931
Sports
Cornell Non-Plussed and No Wonder
DECEMBER 1931

Cornell was non-plussed at this turn of events, and the next punt carried only 15 yards. Morton was the master at this stage and the first play that Bill called was the old looping pass which Wild Bill McCall caught on the five-yard line and scampered over for a touchdown. It was all so simple. McCall delayed long enough to bewilder the 7-2-2 defense of the Ithacans and then shot out from the middle of the box to take the pass.

That ended the scoring story, but it hardly tells of the grand fight made by Gil Dobie's men as the game wore on. It was the concensus of opinion that Cornell had a better team than Harvard. They showed more variety to their plays, more plans of attack, but like Harvard failed when the last white line loomed near.

The fourth period was a story of a late Cornell surge which carried down the field to the ten-yard line only to fail; the story of a Dartmouth line led by Bill Hoffman and his sophomore confreres, Phil Glazer and Al Baldwin, taking the ball on downs three times within the ten-yard markers.