Penn Outscores

The team rolled into Philadelphia not knowing exactly what to expect except that they knew that Penn was strong.

The Red and Blue warriors flashed two spectacular scoring plays across Franklin Field which were enough to turn back a thoroughly aroused band of Dartmouth Indians by a 14-7 count. As a matter of fact, Penn was entitled to another touchdown, but a slipup by Referee W. G. Crowell took a run by Roy Engle out of the books when he inadvertently blew his whistle in the middle of the play.

In the first period Edward Masavage, small Penn back who had not the pregame renown that fell to his backfield mates, crashed the right side of the Dartmouth line, broke into the clear and was away for 51 yards and a touchdown. In the following period Lionel Collis, substitute back, plucked an amazing Dartmouth forward pass out of the air on his 38-yard line and scored unimpeded.

The Dartmouth story was vested in little Sammy Fishman, the human rubber ball, who ran his heart out all afternoon to grab what little glory goes to a member of a defeated team. It was sweltering hot, and Fishman was in there for practically the entire game.

All of Fishman's cunning in the open field was to no avail as far as a touchdown was concerned, but in the final period he pulled the master catch of the day when he took a 38-yard aerial from Bill Clark on his three-yard line and three plays later calmly tossed an over-the-line forward to Bill Embry who snagged the ball in the end zone for the only Dartmouth score.

The psychological setup was all in Dartmouth's favor at the opening of the game, for Pennsylvania fumbled on the first running play and Dartmouth had the ball on the Penn 21-yard line, but two plays and a field goal attempt went awry and it was the Quaker's ball.

Dartmouth was far from a beaten team in this game. There is no need to go into the little details of the play, but suffice to say that the Green put up a whale of a battle against a team that had one of the best and most rugged lines in the East. There is no need to detract from the Penn capabilities by saying that the score did not exactly indicate the difference between the two teams as it was far more of an even battle.

Even in the last period, on the next to the last play of the game, the Indians threw a tremendous scare into the Quakers. Jack Hill, backed six yards in his own end zone, cut loose with a tremendous forward pass which carried 50 yards up the field. The ball fell into the hands of Charles Chapman, an end, but he dropped it.

A crowd of 52,000 turned out for the game in a day which was more fit for baseball than football and saw the Green try all of its stuff. The shift plays worked well, but were not great ground gainers. Fishman used the shift on his side of the line often, and the play shook Sammy loose for four to eight yards, but something failed to click when Dartmouth was within striking distance of the goal. A forward pass would be intercepted or grounded in the end zone, and the Green attack would stall.