DARTMOUTH 27, HARVARD 13

With quarterback Johnny Clayton continuing to play the leading role, the Big Green continued its victory march (after the initial setback by Penn) against a Harvard team that had not won a game all year. The humiliation of a fifth straight defeat was pinned happily upon the Crimson by an alert and aggressive Dartmouth team that continued to look better with every passing week. Leaving the field at the half with a so-o lead, the Green gave the impression that it could score practically at will, a promise that did not materialize in a grueling second half, however, when Harvard definitely came to life.

In addition to some very fancy tossing, which the Green followers have come to accept as routine with him, Clayton also bestirred himself and ran with the ball on several occasions, to the great discomfort of the Harvards. The first Dartmouth touchdown was set up by a hidden ball play, engineered by Clayton, which caught the Crimson flat-footed and enabled the Green quarterback to race some 30 yards to the shadow of the Harvard goal line before he was apprehended. Two plays later, Bill Dey (performing temporarily at left halfback in the absence of the first four operatives in that position through injury and illness) took the ball over.

The second period saw two Dartmouth touchdowns, the first after a perfect pitch to Bill Dey in the end zone had been called back because the receiver was allegedly not in possession of the ball. Shortly thereafter, however, the same busy officials discovered that Dave Beeman had been the victim of illicit interference, for which action Dartmouth was awarded possession on the Harvard 2-yard line. From there it was no trouble at all for the erstwhile ailing Hal Fitkin (playing at about half of his potential capacity because of illness) took the ball over. Bill Dey kicked the extra point, which he had unaccountably failed to do following the first touchdown. A pass interception by Tom Collins of a vagrant Harvard toss set up the third TD. The sophomore from Honolulu caught the ball on the Green 45 and ran it back to the Harvard 38. Bill Roberts, who continued his sensational work on the ground, ripped off some yardage through the middle, and then triggerman Clayton went into action again. Faking the entire Harvard team out of position, he tossed a long pass to Bill Dey, who was calmly waiting in the end zone. The only man around him was his teammate Red Rowe, who graciously allowed Dey to catch the ball and score his second touchdown of the day.

The second half started as though the Green were planning to run up touchdowns until they were completely exhausted by crossing that last white line. With Roberts penetrating the Crimson line for great chunks of yardage, Beeman catching passes, and Ed Isbey (substituting for the convalescent Fitkin) doing some very skillful running, the fourth TD was accomplished with practically no pain at all. Isbey made the score on a nice 17-yard run, during which he utilized his talents in the broken field to complete advantage. After Dey kicked the extra point, the score was then 27-0 and the Green understandably relaxed slightly. This relaxation was capitalized upon by Harvard in the waning minutes of the third quarter and the fourth quarter to score two touchdowns, both on impromptu forward-laterals. These activities threatened to tense up the ball game, but the Green pulled itself together and rode out the storm.

The contest was marked by intense effort on the part of the little men with the whistles, who played drop-the-handkerchief time and again at the expense of the over-eager charges of Coach McLaughry. With the necessary mass substitutions in the backfield because of the unprecedented series of injuries to the halfbacks, the timing was faulty on a number of occasions. All told, the Green suffered some 11 penalties for illegal motion, which not only caused them to lose a great deal of yardage but otherwise slowed up their offensive efforts. Time and again the backs were through for extensive gains, only to be called back and penalized for an infraction. In the matter of fumbles, the usually alert Green backs dropped a couple which were snared by the Crimson, thereby snuffing out other promising rallies. But Harvard could not consistently go very far either through the air (thanks to the secondary defenders) or through the line (thanks especially to the bruising line-backing of Captain Herb Carey).

Statistically, the first downs were 14 to 12 in favor of the Green; the yards gained rushing were 215 against 109; the passing (all done by Clayton) was 9 completions out of 18 tries for Dartmouth and the same number out of 22 attempts by Harvard.

FIRST SCORE AT SOLDIERS FIELD: Bill Dey. smashes across the goal line in the first period to start the Green's rout of the Crimson. In the second quarter, Dey caught a Clayton pass for another score.

TEAM PORTRAIT IN HARVARD STADIUM: Back row, left to right. Halfback Ed Isbey, Captain and Fullback Herb Carey, Quarterback John Clayton and Halfback Bill Dey. Front row left to right. End Tom Rowe Tackle Dick Gowen, Guard Stew Young, Center Paul Staley, Guard Pete Bucklin, Tackle Ted Eberle and End Dave Beeman. Ordinarily a fullback, Dey was shifted to halfback for the Harvard game.