CORNELL 21, DARTMOUTH 7
Following a script that has become almost as stylized as a minuet or a horse opera, Dartmouth again spotted the opposition a touchdown in the early moments of the first quarter, followed by two more in the second, and then proceeded to fight its heart out against hopeless odds for the remainder of the afternoon. An opening Cornell march had led all the way to the Dartmouth 5-yard line before the Indians rallied and took the ball, thus varying the pattern of former weeks somewhat, only to have a Big Red halfback break loose a few moments later through the center of the Indian line for a 62-yard gallop to a TD. In the second period, the Indians dug their own grave even deeper and wider by perpetrating two disastrous fumbles, one on their own 7-yard line and the other on their 34. Both of these miscues were immediately converted into touchdowns by an alert Cornell defense and the Indians thus completed the first half with a 21-0 deficit.
But not before they had picked themselves off the floor and come back punching. A 73-yard sustained drive by the Green in the second quarter penetrated to the Cornell 2-yard line, where the ball was lost on downs before the surging defense of a Cornell line which, also according to script, heavily outweighed the lighter Dartmouth forwards. Once again in the first half, the Green came pounding back from imminent defeat by battering as far as the Cornell 6-yard line. Time ran out in the first half with the ball in that general vicinity, so that the Indians had the excruciating experience of having dominated the play a good part of the second period and still being three touchdowns in arrears.
The final half was the same story, except that Cornell was on the defensive almost the entire two periods before a fighting Dartmouth team which was able to convert only one of its scoring threats into something more tangible. This occurred midway in the third period when little Eddie Williams, a freshman scatback who is far and away the fastest man on the squad and one of the fastest ever seen on Memorial Field, slipped through the middle of the Cornell line for a 21-yard touchdown gallop. Williams continued to threaten the rest of the afternoon but was never able to get away again. The other offensive stalwart for the Green was big Obie O'Brien, who hurled himself into the Cornell line time and again and was personally responsible for a large portion of the 231 yards gained from scrimmage by Dartmouth. But these heroic efforts were not enough and the cfear preeminence of a fighting Dartmouth team during almost three quarters of the game did not make itself felt in the scoring column.
In addition to the successful sally of Eddie Williams, Dartmouth reached the Cornell 26-yard line again in the third period. Then in the fourth period they got down to the Red 35-yard line on one occasion and to the 28 on another. On still a third sortie they had the ball on the Cornell 10-yard line when the gun went off to mark the end of the game. This was certainly the most frustrating encounter of the season for a Green team that has had more than its share of frustration. Against Pennsylvania and Yale we didn't have a chance, but with any sort of breaks and adequate quarterbacking we might have beaten Brown, Harvard, and above all Cornell. The documentation for this final statement, which is not mere hyperbole on the part of your correspondent, is given in the first down department, where Dart- mouth made 17 against 8 for Cornell. On yards gained from scrimmage, the two teams were more nearly even, with the Big Red having a slight margin of 252 to 231. Neither side did much damage with their overhead attack, with Dartmouth apparently doing some heavy soul-searching over the way their passes had backfired on previous occasions. We completed 4 out of 13 for 57 yards and Cornell 3 out of 9 for a measly 34 yards. In the fumble department we were preeminent with four costly lapses, two of which led directly to Cornell touchdowns.
OFF FOR A GOOD GAIN is freshman star Eddie Williams in the 4th quarter against Cornell at Ithaca. Williams earlier scored the Indians' only touchdown as the Big Green lost, 21-7.
