Heartbreak in Conclusion

Dartmouth came out of the huddle, and Wilbur Powers was far back in a punt formation. To Harvard it might have looked as though Powers might try a field goal to tie the score, but to us who have followed the team we knew that Powers is not a drop kicker and that either a pass or a run was in order.

It was the former. He received the ball from Forrest Branch and faded back while his mates spreadeagled the field in the end zone with frantic Harvard defenders trying to cover. Suddenly out of the group sprinted Dave Hedges toward the far corner of the end zone and Hedges was as free as any ball player could have been in that important bit of territory.

The pass shot directly from Powers to Hedges. Hedges had his hands on the ball, juggled it a bit and made another grab. It was too perfect to be true and Hedges missed the ball on the second try, it dropping to the ground for a touchback and Hedges fell forward on his face sobbing like a child. A Harvard man helped him to his feet, but he was inconsolable. The game ended three plays later and Harvard was the victor as far as the score was concerned, but Dartmouth was ahead in every conceivable statistic that you could cull from a football game.

In the dressing room after the game, the gloom was heavy. It would have been an abyss of despondency had it not been for the surge of friendly faces of stars of former years who came in to tell the team that they had put up a battle.

But the peak of emotion was reached when President Hopkins entered the dressing room and waited, hat in hand, for Dave Hedges to return from the showers. The Dartmouth president greeted Hedges and put a fatherly hand on his shoulder and doubtless he told him that it was all in the game and that Dartmouth was proud of him.

Naturally there was a great deal of ballyhoo connected with the Yale game the following week. Yale had yet to secure its first victory and the team which was rated as the strongest in the East at the beginning of the season had missed Albie Booth to such an extent that two ties and two defeats were all that the Elis were able to show. Dartmouth's fine work against Harvard made the Green a decided favorite to lift its first Yale scalp in history.

But somehow we felt that it could not be true. We have been watching great Dartmouth teams of past years journey to the Gloomy Bowl of New Haven only to be turned back in sensational games, and the idea that Dartmouth was such a favorite and Dartmouth had such an easy game did not sound exactly right despite the fact that students and alumni were already preparing to celebrate the long awaited victory.

Chosen 1933 Captain Philip Julian Glazer '34 of Memphis, Tenn. He has been a bulwark in the line as tackle during two seasons.