Aggression in Penn Game

Pennsylvania, fresh from a triumph over Cornell that same evening, was the next league contestant in Hanover, and Dartmouth beat the Quakers here by a 27-20 score, in a rousing, tempestuous and tumultuous game which saw unwonted aggressiveness on both sides, several personal arguments and a bitterly partisan audience which was stirred by the laxity of the officials. The game got out of hand in the second half when Irving Kramer of Dartmouth and Jim Peterson of Pennsylvania squared off on the sidelines and worked their scrap out into the center of the floor. They were only pried apart by the action of the Penn and Dartmouth coaches and from then on things were a little quieter, but every follower of basketball regretted the incident, as well as other unpleasant aspects of the game.

This victory kept Dartmouth in the running for the title, but the Indians were faced with a two-game trip away from home, meeting Princeton and Columbia. The chance to tie for the lead was slim, as Dartmouth had to take the remaining games, while Columbia was losing to the Green and Princeton.

Princeton was defeated by a 28-23 score, which reversed the result of the previous meeting, but the Green fell before Columbia 37-31 in another game which saw the liberal calling of fouls. Harold Mackey, who had played such an outstanding part in Dartmouth's defensive scheme for over half the season, went out on personal fouls before ten minutes of the game was played, and George Gregory, the Lion's great colored center, had three personals called on him in a like space of time with the result that he was hastily withdrawn for future use.

Dartmouth, in the meantime, was playing circles around the champions, starting in with a 6-1 lead, and even leading the Lions 25-20 in the closing minutes of the game. But by one of those rallies for which they are famous Columbia, with the help of Gregory and Jones, threw enough baskets in that final phase to win the game, and with this victory the Green's title hopes went a glimmering.

Then Dartmouth surprised themselves and every follower of basketball by dropping the final game of the season to Cornell by a 29-27 score and also dropping into a lamented tie for second place.