Big Green Teams
Douglas' Punting Feature of Victory Over Princeton; Season Closes With Exciting Win Over Columbia
DARTMOUTH HAD THE MISFORTUNE this season of rebounding from the hands of its most spirited gridiron foe into the arms of its most powerful 1942 opponent. After Yale had caught the Indians completely unawares with a hitherto non-existent running attack, William and Mary returned to the scene of an earlier triumph to win on five end runs. Against Princeton and Cornell the Green was more equally matched both from a psychological and personnel viewpoint. Alert football carried the day in Palmer Stadium, 19-7, but the Big Red came from behind twice to squeeze out a 21-19 win at Buffalo.
In the houseparty game, William and Mary had none of the trickiness of a Harlow shift, but the Virginians had power to spare. Five times their backs skirted around right end and five times they tallied to win, 35-14. As far as the score is concerned, the loss was the worst since the 35-6 Cornell defeat of 1939. Actually the seemingly respectful 17-7 setback at the hands of the Eli was a far more humiliating experience for Dartmouth.
William and Mary was the only oppo- nent the Green faced during the past season which had definite superiority. While Holy Cross, Colgate and all the Ivy League foes had either new systems to master or untried material to depend upon, Coach Carl Voyles brought to Hanover essentially the same Williamsburg eleven of a year ago. Dartmouth's new line was no match for the Southerners, although the Green held for downs inside its own 10-yard line late in the final period.
The game was only six minutes old when Bob Longacre, an unheralded William and Mary back, raced around his own right end for a 47-yard touchdown romp, aided by the finest exhibition of blocking the New Hampshire Indians met all season. Not one white-shirted Dartmouth- player was able to lay his hands on Longacre. An exchange of punts coupled with a punt return gave the visitors the ball on the Green's 43 within two minutes after the first score. On the identically same play which had produced the first points, Jackie Freeman went the whole distance and William and Mary led, 14-0.
Dartmouth came to life as the first quarter waned. Ray Wolfe, with the ball on his own 26, faked an end run and rifled a pass to Meryll Frost who fought his way down to the opponents' 20. At this point a freshman southpaw named Jack Sayers took over and caught the William and Mary secondary napping with a pass to Mo Monahan in the left corner of the end zone.
Neither eleven really threatened during the remainder of the first half, but the Southerners returned after intermission determined to put the game away. From the kickoff they marched 64 yards to a score. A Dartmouth fumble on the Green's 22 set up the fourth touchdown, and the final touches to the rout came in the last period when Tom Douglas could not get a punt away on his own 10 because of a bad pass from center.
Dartmouth, limited to 66 yards throughout the game on the ground, tried desperately to strike through the air. Sayers' passing was outstanding considering the fact that the William and Mary line hurried him.
It was not, however, until a pass interference penalty in the final quarter that the Green crossed the last white line for the second and final time. A pass, intended for Hal Cannon in the end zone, fell short of its intended receiver, but the official ruled that Longacre had paid too much attention to Joe Crowley and not.enough to the ball. Dartmouth took over on the one-yard line and George Pulliam smashed across for the touchdown.
Changing from white to green jerseys for Princeton, the luck of the team also took a turn for the better. Capitalizing on its own punting and punt-return superiority, the Big Green scored in the first, third, and fourth periods on short marches of 12, 33, and 30 yards.
Against Princeton Tom Douglas gave one of the finest exhibitions of punting witnessed in Palmer Stadium. Twice his punts stopped dead inside the Tiger's fiveyard line and once, while standing on the very edge of his own end zone, he kicked out of bounds on the opponents' 47—a disstance of 63 yards.
It was one of Douglas's punts which stopped on the Princeton 3 that really set up the first touchdown. Perina's end zone boot was taken by Ray Wolfe on the Tigers' 39 and he went all the way to the 12. Douglas and Wolfe just managed a first down on the 2, and Frost plunged over for the score.
Although Princeton had possession of the ball for a good part of the second quarter, the Tigers never really threatened. Midway in the third period the Green, aided by roughing penalties against Princeton, got the ball on the opponents' 33. In four plays Dartmouth scored. Pulliam gained thirteen, Mo Monahan made twelve on an end-around, Wolfe smashed his way down to the three, and Pulliam went over on a spin-buck.
There was a threat to the Green's 13point lead when Princeton took the kickoff and marched 80 yards for what proved to be Nassau's only score of the game. But in the final period a Douglas 58-yard punt out of bounds on the Tiger's 7 and Perina's return gunt, which Wolfe brought back 32 yards to the opponents' 30, clinched the decision for Dartmouth. Douglas got to the 24 in two tries, Wolfe whittled off 20 more on a cutback, and Douglas went off tackle to the end zone.
CORNELL RALLIES TO WIN A two-touchdown lead in a Cornell-Dartmouth game means very little as the Green discovered in Buffalo's Civic Stadium. The Big Red had to come from behind twice and stave off a Dartmouth rally in the dying moments, but on the strength of the kicking toe of Joe Anderson the Snavely eleven emerged the victor, 21-19.
The Indians got a break mid-way in the opening period when the Cornell safetyman elected to take a punt which was destined to roll into the end zone. He slipped on the goal line, and the Big Red had to kick out of danger from its own one-yard stripe. The punt was poor and Dartmouth took over on the Cornell 18. Wolfe swept around right end to the 4, and Douglas hit pay dirt on fourth down.
Shortly afterwards, after an exchange of punts, Captain Bud Kast shot a pass to Hal Cannon which was good for 38 yards and first down on the opponents' 7. Only two plays were needed to score, Wolfe getting credit for the six points.
Cornell's turn came in the second period. Bill Wheeler, chief Big Red ground gainer, romped 80 yards for a touchdown in the early moments of the quarter and six minutes later Walt Kretz tied the count from the 8-yard line. Anderson kicked the extra point and Cornell went ahead. The men from Ithaca threatened late in the first half, but the Dartmouth line put up a sensational goal line stand.
After recovering a Cornell fumble on the foe's 23, Monahan took a pass from Wolfe in the opening minutes of the third period for the third Big Green touchdown. Behind 19-14, Cornell scored the winning touchdown with a short pass from Kretz to Rogers, who ran down the sidelines to the one-yard line before being knocked out of bounds. It was a simple matter to tally from there.
Neither eleven scored in the final period, but largely through the valiant efforts of Jack Sayers and Ray Wolfe the Green marched via the air route from its own 14 to Cornell's 14 in the final two minutes of play. Penalties and a hard-charging Big Red line drove the Indians back to the 27 and Kast's attempt at a field goal, the final play of the game, failed.
At the end of this game Douglas had averaged over 42 yards a punt from the line of scrimmage to rate fourth in the nation. His average includes two blocked kicks, and if these were disregarded the Green's fullback would be leading the pack by a wide margin.
On other sport fronts, a Dartmouth crosscountry team, which potentially was the Green's greatest, had a bad day at the Heptagonal meet in New York and finished a disappointing fifth behind Yale, Harvard, Army, and Cornell. In the individual standings John Watkins and Don Burnham were among the first ten, taking sixth and eighth respectively. Earlier, the harriers had easily defeated M.I.T. in a dual meet, 19-39.
Coach Tommy Dent's soccer team came back from a 2-0 Springfield loss to blank M.1.T., 3-0. Against the future gym teachers, Lou Wiederhold and Fritz Witzel were oustanding. In the Tech encounter, the opponents' defense fell apart completely after a scoreless first half. George Pert was the spearhead of the Indians' attack, scoring twice, while brother Jim accounted for the other tally.
The Dartmouth skippers finished behind Harvard, Holy Cross, Yale, and Coast Guard Academy in the Erwin Schall Trophy race in the Charles River basin. In a triangular regatta with Princeton and Navy at Princeton the Green amassed a total of 54½ points to Princeton's 39 and Navy's 37.
FIRST FAMILY OF FOOTBALLCaptain Bud Kast, who led the Indians through a nine-game schedule, is shown with hiswife, the former Angela Cummins, who gave up being a Chesterfield Girl in order to getmarried last fall. Missing from the family group is daughter Christie, 3 months old andthe possessor of five footballs from the games won by Dartmouth this season.
YEARLING REGULAROnly freshman to hold first-string ratingduring the gridiron season just closed wasCarl McKinnon '46 of Everett, Mass., whofilled the left guard post.
1943 Football Schedule Sept. 25 Holy" Cross at Worcester Oct. 2 Amherst at Hanover 9 Pennsylvania at Philadelphia 16 Hampden-Sydney at Hanover 23 Harvard at Cambridge 30 Yale at New Haven Nov. 6 Columbia at New York 13 Cornell at Hanover 20 Princeton at Princeton
