CORNELL 27, DARTMOUTH 26
Dartmouth came to the end of its glory road of five consecutive major victories by succumbing to Cornell in the final minutes of a wild-and-wooly encounter by the improbable and frustrating score of 27-26. In the gathering gloom of a moody afternoon far above you know what, the Green saw a two-touchdown lead in the final quarter become a one point deficit and went down to defeat by the infuriating margin of a single point. With the score 26-14 in their favor at the beginning of the last period, Dartmouth was unable to stave off the rampaging home forces and thereby lost a chance at the championship of the Ivy League.
This defeat was even more grueling because the game started out in such auspicious fashion for Coach McLaughry's charges. With John Clayton running the team and passing in superlative fashion, Dartmouth engineered its first touchdown in a little over two minutes in the first period, with fullback Herb Carey going over for the score. At that juncture, the failure to kick the extra point looked like an inconsequential matter indeed. Cornell came right back and scored on a 60-yard run and then kicked its own point, leading by 7-6 at the first quarter.
In the second period, Clayton tossed a touchdown pass to Joe Sullivan and thereby went out in front 13-7 at the half. When the teams came back on the field, the Green scored again on a 24-yard pass from Clayton to Red Rowe, after which the second point was kicked. With Dartmouth leading at that juncture by 20-7, things looked definitely under control, and even the second Cornell touchdown did not seem especially serious. At the end of the third quarter, Dartmouth scored for the fourth time on a short plunge by Fitkin, which had been set up by Joe Sullivan's 72-yard dash through the entire Cornell team, which ended when he was run down just one yard short of a touchdown. But the final quarter proved the undoing of the Green. With Cornell tearing the Dartmouth line to shreds, the Big Red Team scored two more touchdowns and kicked one of the points. And that was the ball game.
