GREEN WINS STATISTICS
In the statistics department Dartmouth was away out in front with fourteen first downs to five for Pennsylvania. The Indians gained 158 yards on running plays to 155 for Penn, and rolled up 145 yards in the air as against only 23 for the Quakers.
The Dartmouth team which faced this highly touted Pennsylvania eleven, currently rated as the fourth best in the nation, was a team which completely outplayed their opponents but which failed to capitalize in the clinches. It was a team which has shown vast improvement since the opening game, and one which is bound to show much further improvement in the four remaining contests.
On other athletic fronts, the Big Green soccer team has come through with three wins in their four contests to date with only one more match with Yale on October 30 remaining on the 1943 fall schedule. In the season's opener on Chase Field the booters dropped a 3-0 decision to a fast Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute team which is regarded as one of the best college soccer teams in the East.
A week later the Big Green booters scored a 3-0 win over Tufts at Medford, and then returned to Hanover the following week to defeat Coast Guard 7-0. In a return match with Tufts Dartmouth again defeated the Jumbos, this time by a score of 7-1.
Captain Jim Pert, brother of last year's soccer leader, George Pert, has been the outstanding player on Tommy Dent's eleven this fall. Other top men on the Big Green soccer team include Carl Stringer, a V-12 trainee from Clark University; Everett Nordstrom and Walt Nyland, also from Clark; Charlie Stebbins and Dick Morse, former Deerfield Academy athletes; and goalie Charlie Patton.
Coach Harry Hillman's cross-country squad has turned in two victories in as many meets this fall with Captain Don Burnham, Dartmouth track star and ace miler, setting the pace in both races. The Big Green harriers defeated the Union College team, 19-38, in a dual meet over the Hanover course, with Burnham leading the pack home in 24.48 for the 414 mile course.
Burnham and two teammates registered a three-way tie for first place in the other race as Dartmouth won a quadrangular meet against Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts at Medford, Mass. Sharing first place honors with Burnham were Clark Judge '46 and Bill Atkinson, former Manhattan runner.
Three meets' remain on the harriers' fall schedule including the Intercollegiates at Van -Courtland Park in New York on November 13. The Big Green cross-country squad, which is bolstered this fall by several outstanding runners from the V-12 unit, will face New York University on October 30, and will also participate in the annual Heptagonal meet at New York on November 6.
