FOLLOWING THE BIG GREEN TEAMS
Controversially it has been a great football season in Hanover, Cambridge, New Haven, and points west and south. Statements and counter-statements, rumors and denials have flown thick and fast about the heads of the hapless Indians, and the whole hulabaloo has served only to obscure a most unusual record and a season that has been honorable in all respects and downright good in many.
It seems that Dartmouth's 1933 football stew was not seasoned with enough touchdowns to please all palates. Although everyone agrees that it certainly was no dish to set before the king, it has nevertheless been accepted with good cheer by the less epicurean consumers.
The amazing thing of the whole fall is the fact that the Dartmouth gridmen have been able to keep their hearts in the game with bad breaks coming their way on the field and disrupting criticism arriving almost daily by way of the press. The Big Green eleven has been one of the strongest defensive units in the East this year, and a summary of scores through the Cornell game shows the unusual totals of 14-7, 7-7, 13-14, 0-7, and 0-7 for the major contest in which Dartmouth has figured. The Indians' defensive work has been rugged and spirited throughout the campaign, and with a break here and there, the season's story might have been entirely different.
Following its first major triumph in two seasons over Pennsylvania, the Big Green eleven made the circuit of the erstwhile "Big Three" and acquitted itself with credit. Bill Clark's sensational dash in the closing minutes of the Harvard game gave the Indians a 7-7 tie with the Crimson; the old Yale jinx came to the rescue of the Bulldog eleven, 14-13, after Dartmouth had clearly established its right to victory; and a lion-hearted defensive fight by the Indians gave Princeton's undefeated and heavily favored club the scare of its life before it took to the air and scored a lone touchdown. This season marked the first time in Dartmouth's gridiron history that Harvard, Yale and Princeton were faced in the same campaign.
These three battles in a row, each an objective game for Dartmouth, were too much, and the Indians were mentally and physically "stale" for the big home game against Cornell. The I thacans found Dartmouth's blocking and tackling far below par and brought the curtain down on the Hanover season with their second succes- sive victory, 7-0.
The Big Green put on a queer alternating performance of defensive and offensive football in the Harvard, Yale and Princeton encounters, and then bogged down in both departments against Cornell. The Harvard game looked like a very drab affair to the offense-minded spectator, but it was declared by one of the officials to be among the best defensive games he had ever handled. Offensively, the game boils down to two sensational plays. Fergie Locke, the Crimson's brilliant back, took a pass from Bob Haley soon after the opening kick-off of the second half and twisted his way through the entire Dartmouth team for 40 yards and a touchdown. Johnnie Dean added the extra point, and the contest settled down to one of intercepted forward passes until close to the end of the game.
Taking the ball on its 20-yard line, the Big Green failed on two passes, was penalized five yards, and then shot two flat-zone passes for a first down on its own 44-yard line. Harvard's defense at this point was all set for more passes, and the Crimson ends were hesitating to crash through the way they had all afternoon. "Jocko" Stangle sensed the opportunity and sent Bill Clark through tackle. The Amesbury halfback hit out to his right, reversed the Harvard secondaries off stride, and then dashed diagonally for the left corner of the field while the Crimson's thunderstruck defensives gave futile chase. Don Hagerman added the tying point for Dartmouth, and the game ended four plays after the kick-off.
Outside of this one 80-yard flight, the Indians left their offense in Hanover, failing to penetrate Harvard's 45-yard line until Clark's touchdown dash. Their defensive work, however, in holding the Crimson at bay was of the highest order, particularly in the fourth quarter when intercepted passes gave Harvard four scoring opportunities.
The Green offense immediately came in for general "panning," but the Indians made the critics eat their words with a wild and woolly performance in the Yale Bowl on the following Saturday. This time Dartmouth's defensive strength was nowhere in sight, and Yale marched to two touchdowns when the breaks gave them the opportunity.
For sensations and gridiron drama this 14-13 battle was second only to the famous 33-33 tie of 1931. A touchdown was scored in each period, Yale's two in the first and last, and Dartmouth's two in the second and third. Only three points after touchdown were kicked and two of these, and victory, fell to the lot of Yale. The Big Green scored its first touchdown when Dick Carpenter and El Camp, the ends, collaborated in blocking and recovering a punt behind the Yale goal line, and the second came as a result of a 55-yard drive midway through the third quarter, with Bill Clark skirting right end to score. Stangle and Clark ran Yale dizzy all afternoon with end sweeps and slashing cutbacks, and a third touchdown march was halted only by a bad pass from center. With moments left to play, Herb Stearns recovered Whitehead's fumble on Yale's 9-yard line, but only one play could be run before the field judge dashed in to take possession of the ball. Just a few plays before Stearns had caught a fourthdown pass which Lassiter had batted down on the 13-yard line, but the ball was three yards short of first down. And so it went.
Yale was materially aided to its two touchdowns by breaks. Tommy Curtin's first punt of the game hopped outside on the 2-yard line when it seemed destined to roll across the goal line, and Clark's return punt carried out only to the 38-yard mark, from which point Yale uncorked its first touchdown march. In the third period the way was paved for the second Blue touchdown when an over-fine decision on roughing the kicker gave Yale the chance for another march to the goal line. With 13 yards to go on fourth down, Curtin dropped back to punt, but El Camp, Dartmouth's incharging end, brushed against him on the play and the official called a 15-yard penalty and gave Yale a first down. It was immediately after this that the Bulldogs started the march that scored a touchdown at the very start of the last quarter.
Dartmouth bested Yale in all departments of the game, but the jinx which has thwarted the Indians in the Bowl had an unusually potent day. Press-box observors declared that the Green eleven was the best they had seen in New Haven in recent years, and it was generally agreed that very few defeated teams have ever outplayed the victors by such a decisive margin.
The Big Green's showing against Yale served only to increase enthusiasm for the Princeton contest, and fear of the mighty Tiger eleven was replaced by claims all over town that Dartmouth had a pretty good chance to win. Bill Morton arrived on the scene with pertinent information about the Tigers, and his confidence over the Green's chances was contagious.
As it so turned out, Dartmouth battled Princeton to a standstill in the first half, and finally succumbed when "Kats" Kadlic tossed a pass to 1 airman at the end of a 58-yard advance in. the third quarter. After an early march of 64 yards was stopped by the Indians on their 15-yard line, the Tigers accomplished very little offensively until their third-period touchdown.
Dartmouth had two scoring opportunities in the first half, but its first advance ended so yards short of the goal when Bill Clark fumbled, and on the next to the last play of the half Bob Michelet barely missed a field goal from the 16-yard line.
Princeton took to the air soon after the second half opened, and two long passes, Kadlic to Lea and Kadlic to Fairman, did the trick. A 15-yard penalty against the Green was sandwiched between these two tosses, and it materially aided the Tiger advance. The remainder of the half saw a resumption of the sparkling defensive play that would not allow either team to put on sustained marches.
This first Dartmouth-Princeton contest since 1916 was a rugged, fiercely fought contest. The tackling was hard throughout, and this accounted for the unusual number of times which both sides fumbled. Princeton tacklers had been forcing fumbles in all the games previous to the Dartmouth encounter, but the Indians proved just as tough on the defense and their line matched the smashing play of the Tiger forward wall. Dartmouth did not seriously threaten after the two opportunities of the first half, but several long passes which barely failed to click kept the spectators on their feet until the final whistle.
Four successive week-ends away from Hanover and the fierce competition against Penn, Harvard, Yale and Princeton took their physical and mental toll, and the Indians were licked before they started the Cornell game. Wintry weather forestalled all outdoor work between the Princeton and Cornell battles, and preparation was devoted mainly to a study of the Red formations. The game was closely fought, and only one sustained march—that leading to Cornell's touchdown—was unrolled before the House Party spectators. In the third period two forward passes, A1 Frederick to John Wallace, gave the Ithacans a first down on Dartmouth's 6-yard line. In three plunges the visitors had been pushed back to the 10-yard mark, and then on last down, Frederick set out around the Green right end and slid across the goal line when El Camp and Stangle failed to bring him down.
The contest early resolved itself into a punting duel between Bill Clark and John Ferraro, with the Green halfback having a slight edge in the argument. Jack Hill, who had been inserted in the last minutes of the Princeton game, also had a foot in the kicking duel, but he was forced to favor his bad ankle. The Littleton star, despite his injury, was the best Dartmouth back on the field, and his running and passing showed no bad effects from the long lay-off.
The Cornell game was the fifth major contest in a row which Phil Glazer had played through without substitution. A deep gash on the forehead almost put him out of action, but he insisted upon carrying on his record. Other "iron men" this season have been Bob Michelet, Don Erion, Ray Hulsart, Moe Frankel, Dick Carpenter, "Jocko" Stangle, Bill Clark, and Jack Kenny.
The Little Green
The Dartmouth freshmen, at any rate, are not troubled by a Yale jinx. They wound up a successful football campaign by coming back after a 26-0 defeat at the hands of Harvard to defeat the Blue year-lings, 13-0, in the first meeting between the two freshman teams. While the Green varsity was marching up and down the Bowl only to be checked by adverse breaks, the freshman club staged two touchdown marches on a neighboring field and then put up a stubborn defense to maintain its lead. Conti skirted left end for 10 yards and a touchdown in the first period, and in the second quarter his pass to Lefebvre was good for six more points.
With victories over Clark School and Roxbury and a tie with New Hampshire '37, in addition to the Harvard and Yale contests, the Green freshmen finished their season with a record of three victories, one tie, and one defeat in five games.
Freshman numerals have been voted by the Athletic Council to the following: Ernest W. April, Salem, Mass.; Gordon P. Bennett, Swampscott, Mass.; David M. Camerer, Pleasantville, N. Y.; William Cole, Sandy Hook, Conn.; Philip S. Conti, Bane, Vt.; Anthony Geniawicz, Lynn, Mass.; John R. Gribbon, Waterbury, Conn.; John B. Handrahan, Hingham, Mass.; Warren J. Hopwood Jr., Minneapolis, Minn.; Russell J. Hutton, Buffalo, N. Y.; Thomas W. Johnson, Nahant, Mass.; Samuel P. Johnston Jr., Highland Park, Ill.; Joseph W. Kiernan, Washington, D. C.; Carl L,. Lang, Melrose, Mass.; Paul L. Lefebvre, Willimansett, Mass.; Frank M. Magel, Cresskill, N. J.; Taylor L. McCray, Dayton, Ohio; John C. Merrill, South Pasadena, Calif.; Frank A. Montei, Hartford, Conn.; Donald N. Otis, Gloucester, Mass.; Carl P. Ray, Pawling, N. Y.; Marshall E. Roper, Holden, Mass.; Henry C. Whitaker, Madison, Wis.; and Franklin W. Young, Lima, Ohio.
Soccer
Tommy Dent's soccer team brought a highly creditable season to a close on November 10 by defeating Syracuse, 3-1, in Hanover. Three other victories, one tie, and one defeat had - preceded this final contest with the Orange booters. Springfield's 1-0 verdict on October 21 was the only setback for the Green soccermen, although the 1-1 tie with Harvard was something of a disappointment since Dartmouth entered the game a great favorite.
Soccer letters for the season just closed were awarded by the Athletic Council to the following men:
1934—Robert F. Allabough, Ridgewood, N. J.; Captain Ralph A. Brabbee, Bronxville, N. Y.; Cornelius J. Shea, Dorchester, Mass.; Samuel G. Watts, Kingston, N. Y.; and S. Henry Werner, New York City.
1935—Dean H. Couper, Littleton, Mass.; John E. Gilbert, Hanover, N. H.; Edwin J. Harvey, Ridgewood, N. J.; Edward G. Meade, Philadelphia, IJa.; Henry H. Orcutt, Demarest, N. J.; John M. Shelmire Jr., Moorestown, N. J.; Kenneth W. Webster, Randolph, Vt.; and Frank J. Wright, Omaha, Neb.
1936—Walter C. Allen, Walpole, Mass. William S. Curtis, Webster Groves, Mo. Dean R. Gidney, Ridgewood, N. J.; and Walter J. Mosenthal Jr., Upper Montclair, N. J.
Cross-Country
The Dartmouth cross-country team ended an abbreviated fall schedule by finishing eleventh in the intercollegiate crosscountry meet held in New York on November 20. Jim Beardsley, who was 40th in a field of 118, was the first Green runner to finish, and Frank Lepreau in 52d place was the second. These two men have led the Indian harriers all season, in the HarvardNew Hampshire triangular meet and in the Yale dual meet as well as in the intercollegiates. The other Dartmouth entries finished as follows: Lindsey Brigham, 53d; James Johnson, 66th; Bill Short, 73d; and Dave Putnam, 102d.
In the freshman intercollegiate run Dartmouth finished eighth. Robert Fuller, 22d in a field of 79, led the Green finishers; followed by John Hoffstetter in 32d place; Everett White, Indian captain of the freshman harriers, in 36th place; William F. Russell in 45th place; John F. Ohlinger in 48th place; and Walter R. Porter in 50th place.
Frightening the Tiger Jack Kenny, Green halfback, slices through the Princeton line for a sizeable gain in the contest which the Tigers eked out, 7 to 0.
An Important Cog Jack Kenny, right halfback from Hartford, Conn., whose blocking and line-plunging made him a vital cog in the Green backfield.
A Real Yeoman Bill Clark, left halfback from Amesbury, Mass., who stepped in to dominate the Indian attack when Hill and Powers became injured.
In the Process of Tying Harvard, 7-7 W. L. "Ike" Powers '34 circling the Crimson's left end, aided by good blocking. A knee injury kept this fast back out of later games.
Snowed in by Cornell Even the strong running of Bill Clark '35, former Exeter star, could not gain consistently against the Big Red team. Clark's ball carrying was a threat all season.
