FIELD GOAL WINS OPENER

It was reserve halfback Tom Donavan's 17-yard field goal in the closing minutes of the Holy Cross game which gave the Big Green eleven a slim 3-0 victory in the season's opener this fall. For 58 minutes a rusty Dartmouth team had battled eleven Crusader iron men, who had played the entire game, but neither team was able to score. Finally late in the fourth period Monahan's 65-yard coffin corner kick that went out of bounds on the two-yard stripe set Holy Cross back against its own goal line.

Kicking on the first down, Stan Koslow-sky's punt carried down to the 45 where Don Kasprzak ran it back to the 38. Two Kasprzak passes worked the ball down to the 24, and then Joe Andrejco picked up 12 yards through the line to put the ball directly in front of the goal posts on the 12-yard line. With only one minute and 58 seconds of playing time remaining, Coach Earl Brown rushed in Tom Donavan, former Manhattan star, who booted the ball straight through the uprights for the game-winning field goal.

Twice during the game Holy Cross had threatened to score, but magnificent defensive stands by the Big Green line turned the Crusaders back. By the tricky shifting of certain key linemen who moved with every play with phenomenal accuracy, Holy Cross was able to throttle the Dartmouth running attack completely. Were it not for the Big Green passing attack which rolled up half of the total yardage for the afternoon, the Indians would have been held at a complete stand-still.

One week later the Big Green squad had the chance to demonstrate their real offensive strength as they rolled up seven touchdowns against an injury-ridden Coast Guard eleven to win 47-0. Larry Bartnick started the Big Green scoring parade early in the first period when he jaunted 34 yards around his own right end to score. Tom Donavan made the kick, and Dartmouth went out in front after less than three minutes of playing time had elapsed.

The Indians pushed the ball across twice more in the initial period, the second score coming on a 19-yard pass from Kasprzak to Monahan in the end zone. The passing and running attack clicked again to put on another touchdown march climaxed by Red Mangene's eight-yard dash into pay dirt. Mangene also scored the only touchdown of the second period on a similar play around the opposite end, and at halftime the Indians were out in front 26-0.

Coast Guard showed a little more power at the start of the second half but Coach Brown constantly inserted reserve strength, and the Cadets were unable to check the Indian offensive. Don Kasprzak provided the highlight of the afternoon midway in the third period when he took a punt on the Dartmouth 24, cut to the sidelines, and then reversed his field to sweep through the entire Coast Guard lineup and race 76 yards to score.

Dartmouth scored two more touchdowns in the last half of the final quarter, the first one coming when Ed Flemming took the ball on a play from the T formation and ran 25 yards right down the middle to score standing up! The final tally of the afternoon came on the last play of the game when fourth string quarterback Gene Koch faded back to the 25-yard line to flip a long aerial down to Jim Kelley in the end zone for Dartmouth's seventh touchdown. Joe Scandore kicked the extra point to complete the day and give the Big Green a 47-0 victory.

A word or two should be said in fairness to the Coast Guard Academy eleven which only a week before had given the Yale Bulldog a real battle before finally succumbing 20-12. The Cadet eleven which played here lacked three of their best backfield men, including their ace triple-threat, Jack Dorsey, The limited power of the injury-ridden visitors was unable to match the strength and depth of the Dartmouth squad, and on the whole the Cadets deserve much more credit than the score would indicate.

A FOURTH-QUARTER GAIN around end is made by "Red" Mangene (41 ) , former Boston College back, with Hal Clayton (32) clearing Coast Guard opposition out of the way.

STIFF PHYSICAL TRAINING is the lot of every Navy V-12 trainee at Dartmouth. In the competitive and combative activities which have now replaced the earlier general conditioning, trainees are shown (top) in a tug of war and (bottom) in required wrestling. Swimming is given special emphasis in the Navy program and in the middle picture men are shown learning something about self-preservation in a Spaulding Pool class.