PENNSYLVANIA 42, DARTMOUTH 26
In a game in which 34 points were scored in the final period, Pennsylvania continued its mastery over Dartmouth, which has extended back to 1933 without a victory for the Green. Penn was led by their great captain, Reds Bagnell, who set a national intercollegiate record in this game for individual total offense. His total was 490 yards from scrimmage, with 276 yards through the air and 214 along the ground. The total offensive yardage piled up by Penn against an increasingly porous Dartmouth defense was 590 yards, which is enough to win a couple of ordinary games. For the third successive week, the glaring ineptitude of the pass defense of the Green was manifested, with Penn connecting for the unbelievable total of 20 out of 31 attempts, of which 14 were completed in a row. In this last respect, Dartmouth also had the dubious distinction of being the team against which a new record was set, for this figure of 14 straight completions established another intercollegiate mark for Bagnell.
In spite of all this, Dartmouth started cut with a bang and for a good part of the o-ame looked very much in the running. The Green scored first in the initial period, as they did the week before against Michi when Clayton hit A 1 Reich for a TD after 14 minutes of play. The usually reliable Doc Dey missed the first of two extra points, a lapse which was to prove increasingly devastating for the Green as the afternoon wore on. Penn scored twice in the second period, and then Dartmouth came back again in the closing minutes of the first half to score on a pass from Clayton to John McDonald. The Green left the field trailing only 14-13 and anything still looked possible.
Penn scored in the third period and again early in the final period, during which interval Dartmouth was unable to follow suit. Then defensive end John Patten intercepted an errant pass in the flat by the Penn quarterback (not Bagnell) and raced 50 yards for a touchdown without a hand being laid on him. At this juncture, the score was 28-20, with the second missed conversion making it impossible for the Green to tie even with another touchdown'. Penn then scored again, and Dartmouth came through with their final tally on a double pass from Clayton to halfback Russ Smale to McDonald which went to the 5-yard line, after which Smale went over for the touchdown. Just by way of clinching the matter,however, Bagnell then broke through and dashed 63 yards for the final Red and Blue score with less than a minute to play. The fourth period, with Pennsylvania scoring three times and Dartmouth twice, had the clients on their feet most of the time.
The statistics of the game were considerably more one-sided than the score. Pennsylvania rolled up the impressive total of 22 first downs, as against 8 for Dartmouth. The Red and Blue amassed 314 yards by rushing, as against 81 for a Dart mouth team that was severely handicapped by the injury to fullback Bill Roberts, their only consistent running back. The latter, indeed, was so much out of action that he did not even make the trip. The rest of the Dartmouth backs were, with occasional exceptions, unable to get very far through the powerful Penn line.
Even in the aerial route, where Dartmouth was expected to shine, the Green was heavily outclassed. As noted, Penn completed 20 out of 31 passes, for a total of 276 yards. Dartmouth, on the other hand, with Clayton doing most of the tossing, was able to do no better than 8 for 13, for 140 yards. Clayton himself accounted for seven of the eight completions and two touchdowns. Each side intercepted only one of the opponent's efforts, indicating the accuracy of both of the throwers. The officials had a busy afternoon, with Pennsylvania penalized nine times for a total of 95 yards and the Green submitting to seven penalties for 112 yards.
As we go to press, therefore, a good Dartmouth team for which much was expected at the start of the season has not yet won a game. Both offensively and defensively, the team has shown flashes of outstanding ability, but the two have so far failed to jell for an entire game. Bill Roberts has been available for only approximately half of the game time so far, and Charlie Curtis, the ace safety man, was out for most of the Michigan game and all of the Penn game. This latter absence has cost the Indians dear, for Curtis' speed and his savoir faire on pass defense could not be duplicated. The result has been a consistent and fatal weakness to forward passes, which the three opponents have been quick to capitalize upon. If the defensive backs could have knocked down a few more of these passes, the results to date might have been different. If they could have intercepted a few as well, things certainly would have been rosier. But they didn't, and that is that.
NO CHANCE TO GO TEARING BY: Bob Tyler (42), left halfback, finds determined Wolverines barring the way in the second half. Tyler bore the brunt of the Green running attack after the injury to star fullback Bill Roberts.
TWO PLAYS IN DARTMOUTH'S SCORING SEQUENCE AGAINST MICHIGAN: Left, Bill Roberts (34), Big Green fullback, who ground out ten yards in two tries after Dartmouth took over on he 22, shown making the vtal first down. Right, John McDonald, lanky end, shown on the ground in the end zone clutching Johnny Clayton's bullet pass for the only touchdown scored by the Indians in their 27-7 loss at Ann Arbor.
