YALE 33, DARTMOUTH 2
The next week, some 66,000 paying customers jammed the Bowl and sat through intermittent rains to watch Yale bury an inept Dartmouth aggregation by the lopsided score of 33-2. The pattern was early set by Dartmouth, which contributed as much to their own defeat as Yale, when the Green attempted a pass from their own 19-yard line immediately after receiving the kickoff. This abortive aerial venture was promptly intercepted by Yale, who rushed over a touchdown in less than two minutes of play. This left the Green with a 6-0 deficit staring them in the face before the clients were well settled in their seats. The rest of the game had a similar deep blue tinge for the Big Green.
The report of this contest will be kept mercifully short, since otherwise it would consist largely of a parade of Yale touchdowns, in the details of which I assume the readers of this family journal have no overwhelming interest. Suffice it to point out, for the sake of the record, that Yale scored in every period, one touchdown in each of the three initial stanzas and two in the final one. The Green maintained their record of at least breaking into the scoring column on every occasion by watching the Yale center throw a pass away from a prospective kicker standing in his own end zone. This wayward toss went for an automatic safety and a meager morsel of comfort for a cruelly lacerated Green. This was an epic of frustration for a gallant Dartmouth aggregation which had already absorbed more than its share of heartbreakingdefeats.
Starting with the initial interception of Jack Sayers' southpaw pass in the opening moments of the game which paved the way for the first Yale score, very little the Green did seemed to go right. Their passing attack backfired with special viciousness, with six out of a total of 17 passes intercepted, two leading directly to touchdowns and at least one more setting up another Yale score. These 17 attempts through the air netted a total yardage of 37 yards, with the aforementioned devastating results of the interceptions. No matter who was doing the tossing for Dartmouth, there were more blue jerseys there to receive them than green. Only three such tosses were completed as planned, while six were intercepted, which must be some kind of record in that department.
The only offensive effort really worthy of commendation on the part of Dartmouth was a 53-yard scamper around his right end by the Mighty Mouse Pensavalle, who faked, the entire Yale team out of position and advanced to the Yale 15-yard line before he was brought down. This spectacular effort did not lead to anything in the way of scoring, however, which was perhaps typical of the Dartmouth endeavors all through this dismal afternoon. A subsequent pass interception of one of Pensavalle's passes did the trick in this instance and took the pressure off the Yales.
The statistics showed the measure of the Yale superiority on this misty afternoon. Twelve first downs were made by the Elis, compared to six for Dartmouth, quite apart from the touchdown ventures which do not count as first downs but do count in the box score. Yale gained 259 yards on the ground by rushing, as against 138 for the Green. The unhappy story of the aerial ventures of the Green and their hostile interception has already been told. This was the 20th triumph of the Blue over the Green since they first started playing in the days of the flying wedge. Four contests have been tied. Dartmouth has won six, the last in 1943. There should be practically unanimous agreement in this corner that it would be nice to do it again.
OFF FOR A FIRST DOWN against Columbia is Herb Carey, freshman fullback, in the first quarter of a game at Hanover. The Lions from Morningside Heights came out on top, 33-13, before 13,000 people.
