DARTMOUTH 3, HOLY CROSS 0

The Big Green team (which is not so big and not so green this fall) opened the season in modest albeit highly satisfactory fashion with a neat but not gaudy win over a favored Holy Cross eleven by the score of 3-0. The small but adequate margin of victory was achieved through the medium of substitute halfback George Pulliam's field goal in the fourth quarter, after the Indians had pushed the bulky Crusaders all over the lot but had failed to score. Coming as it did to inaugurate the first postwar season and after a defeat by the same team last fall, a pleasant glow of satisfaction was evident in the Field House on the Monday morning after this initial encounter.

Fielding the lightest eleven in the Ivy League, the Indians were outweighed some 25 pounds per man in the line and 20 pounds in the backfield, a handicap under which they were fated to struggle throughout the season but which bothered them not at all in the Holy Cross fiesta. The first team lined up with Monahan and Rusch at the ends, Clucas and Jenkins at the tackles, Alvarez and Art Young at the guards, Art Carey at center, Sullivan at quarter, Bartnick and O'Brien at the halves, and Captain Tom Douglas at fullback. Both by way of demonstrating the comparative wealth of material and in order to rest his lighter operatives, Coach McLaughry operated in this game (and to a certain extent in the Syracuse and Penn games which followed) on a two-team system, substituting each team as a unit with considerable success. The so-called second team, which actually worked with slightly more success than the first, lined up with Russell and Poet at the ends, Lewis and Hannigan at the tackles, the Young brothers, Jack and Stew, at the guards, Shreck at center, Pensavalle or Sayers at quarter, Pulliam and Lorraine at the halves, and Bob McLaughry or Herb Carey at fullback.

The field goal negotiated by Pulliam came after the fourth quarter was approximately five minutes old and climaxed a Dartmouth drive which was temporarily halted when the Indians were obliged to kick from deep in Crusader territory. The latter in turn were forced to kick from behind their own goal line, an effort which was not singularly successful. The Green took over and promptly made a first down on the Crusader 19-yard line after a pass caught by end Bob Poet. Another pass by Sayers eluded Mo Monahan in the end zone, after which Pulliam calmly stepped back and split the uprights with his winning effort. The sporadic drives of the Green throughout the game were sparked by Conrad Pensavalle, a scatback from Everett, Massachusetts, whose work the next week in the Syracuse game was to earn him top recognition as an offensive dynamo. Captain Tom Douglas performed ably as ball carrier and kicker, in which latter capacity he was destined to be sorely missed the following weeks when he was sidelined with a bad ankle. The Green line performed nobly against their mastadonic opponents, pushing them smartly out of the play on numerous occasions and offering a stone wall on defense.

The Indians showed a measure of superiority which was not evident in the score, for the Crusaders were singularly futile in their offensive activities, penetrating across the midfield stripe only twice during the long hot afternoon. On the other hand, the boys in Green were galloping gaily up and down the field without, however, any appreciable dividends until the final quarter. After the field goal, the Hanoverians intercepted a Holy Cross pass deep in Dartmouth territory (on the second of the only two occasions when the Crusaders were able to bring this about). The Green marched this steadily down to the Holy Cross 4-yard line, where time ran out on them before they were able to punch it across through the wilting purple line. Such a denouement would have been highly gratifying to the vengeful Indians but, all things considered, everybody was happy to settle for a win, any style.

ONE OF THE FEW SIZABLE GAINS AGAINST PENN is shown being registered by Halfback Larry Bartnick, who swept around right end for 12 yards in the contest with the too-powerful Quakers at Franklin Field.