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Gridmen Add to Victories As 1943 Season Nears Its Close; Cross-Country Team Captures Intercollegiate Championship

BIG GREEN TEAMS continued their winning ways during the month of November, with the football eleven adding three more victories, while the cross-country team extended its perfect record to include the Heptagonal League crown and the Eastern Intercollegiate championship. And Coach Tommy Dent's soccer team also wound up its fall schedule with a decisive win over Yale.

On the gridiron, the Big Green rolled up a 20-6 score against Yale on October 30, and then returned to Hanover the following week to trounce hapless Columbia, 47-13. At Fenway Park in Boston on November 13 the Indians scored their first win over Cornell since the famous "fifth down" victory of 1940 by turning back the Big Red 20-0. The traditional clash with Princeton at Palmer Stadium on November 20 will ring down the curtain on a highly successful season for Dartmouth's 1943 grid team.

The accurate right arm of Don Kasprzak continued to lead the Indians' offensive attack as the lend-lease quarterback from Columbia chucked six touchdown passes in the last three games and continually paced Dartmouth's scoring drives. In the defensive department, left guard Don Alvarez, former Wisconsin product, and left end John Monahan, regular Dartmouth end last fall, continued their fine play on the Big Green forward wall.

Playing before a rain-soaked crowd of only five thousand spectators, the smallest in the recent history of the annual Yale- Dartmouth classic, the Indians hurdled the traditional "Yale jinx" to turn back the Elis 20-6. As usual Kasprzak was the big gun in the scoring department as two of his passes went for touchdowns while another directly set up Dartmouth's third touchdown.

Most impressive feature in a rather dull game was the debut of V-12 freshman Bill West, triple-threat halfback from Winchester, Mass., who made his initial appearance in college competition. The 190- pound halfback got things underway midway in the second period as he ran back a punt 15 yards to midfield. Combining with Don Kasprzak in a brilliant exhibition of aerial artistry, West worked the ball down to the Elis' ten-yard stripe on a series of short passes. Kasprzak then flipped a ten-yard pass to right end A 1 Russell in the end zone. The pigskin bounced out of Russell's clutch and dropped cleanly into the arms of left end Jack Monahan for Dartmouth's first score. Tom Donavan converted the extra point.

Fullback A 1 Wizbicki set up the next tally as he galloped 40 yards down to the Yale 30 on a quick opening play. Kasprzak again stepped to the center of the stage and threw a long pass to Larry Bartnick on the five. Two plays later Bill West scooted around right end to score standing up. Donavan's try for the point after was blocked, and at intermission time the Big Green was out in front 13-0.

The Elis only score of the afternoon came shortly after the opening of the second half when Tommy Smith, Yale captain and left guard, picked up Jack Sayers fumble on the Dartmouth go. After failing to gain through the Dartmouth line, "Scooter" Scussel tossed a desperate fourthdown pass to end Paul Walker, who outfought safety man Don Kasprzak for the ball and scored.

Kasprzak came back strong a few minutes later, however, and on the first play after the kickoff tossed a 50-yard pass from his own 35 to halfback Larry Bartnick, who romped 15 yards to score.

The following week on Memorial Field the Dartmouth ground attack took precedence over its vaunted aerial guns as the Big Green smothered a weak Columbia eleven, 47-13, before a crowd of six thousand spectators.

Halfback Tom Donavan, hero of Dartmouth's 3-0 win over Holy Cross in the opening game this fall, led the Dartmouth touchdown parade as he scored once, booted four extra points, and averaged nearly ten yards every time he carried the ball. The passing of Kasprzak accounted for three touchdowns, while the clever quarterback also scored one himself on a short end run.

The Lions threw a genuine scare into the Big Green early in the game as they rolled up two tallies via the aerial route. Both came on. 37-yard passes from Otto Apel to Captain Tom Rock, who got behind the Indian secondary and into the clear. Kasprzak, however, was not to be denied in the passing department, as he threw two 25 yard aerials to ends Monahan and Russell to match the Lion tallies. Kasprzak put the Big Green out in front late in the second period when he tossed another ten-yard pass to Tom Donavan who ran 18 yards to score. Dartmouth was holding a 20-13 lead at halftime.

O «-» The Indians came back strong in the second half and rolled up two touchdowns early in the third period. The first one came immediately after the kickoff when Columbia punted poorly to her own 44. Wizbicki carried it over in two plays, and Donavan again converted. Wizbicki also staged the Big Green's fifth touchdown march of the afternoon as he carried from the Lions 28 down to the five where Don Kasprzak rushed it over.

A few minutes later an exchange o£ kicks gave Dartmouth the ball on the Columbia 43. With Donavan and Wizbicki doing most of the carrying, the Indians worked the ball down to the one-yard line where Midget Milt Fromson, 160-pound reserve quarterback, went over. Donavan again kicked the extra point.

The seventh and final Dartmouth tally of the day came on a four-yard lunge through the line by halfback Jim Ronayne. In the final minutes of play fullback Hal Clayton tried a 20-yard field goal just for variety, but missed by a narrow margin.

On November 13 the Indians added another scalp to their impressive collection as they trimmed Cornell 20-0 at Fenway Park. Left tackle Art Vorys was the outstanding star as he displayed the most brilliant brand of line play seen in many a day. The 196-pound transfer from Williams consistently broke into the Cornell backfield to set the Big Red back several yards.

In the touchdown department Dartmouth's first tally came on a ten-yard pass from Kasprzak to Monahan in the end zone, climaxing a 70-yard touchdown drive. Kasprzak himself scored the second touchdown on a short off-tackle smash through the line.

Freshman Ed Grygiel, former New York state high school star, intercepted a Cornell pass in the second half and ran it back 25 yards to the six-yard line where fullback Johnny Burroughs carried over on the next play. Bill West just barely missed adding another touchdown to the Dartmouth score when he slipped and fell after getting away into the clear on a pass interception.

And that brings us up to date in the football department. With the Big Green expected to be an easy victor over Princeton in the season's finale, it appears as though Dartmouth will close the 1943 football season with a record of six wins and a single loss, but you may be sure we'll be keeping our fingers crossed until the final whistle next Saturday.

INTERCOLLEGIATE CROSS-COUNTRY CHAMPIONS and undefeated in all meets this season, the 1943 Dartmouth harriers have hung up a brilliant record for Harry Hillman, veteran coach. Left to right, the team members are: Front row—Capt. Don Burnham '44 USNR, intercollegiate individual champion; Fred Kahn USMCR; Back row—Lincoln Stoughton USNR; Clark Judge '46 USMCR; Al Lupa USNR; Egon Werdelman USMCR; Bill Atkinson USMCR; Coach Hillman.

FIRST INDIAN TOUCHDOWN OF YALE GAME was scored by Mo Monahan (buried) when he was on the spot to take Kasprzak's pass as it bounced out of the hands of Al Russell (86) in the end zone. Arm-waving Dartmouth players are Flemming (15), Vorys (73) and Antaya (64). Other Big Green players shown are West (44), Alvarez (61 ) and Brown (53).