Army 37, Dartmouth 7
The morning of the Army game the 40- odd Dartmouth squad members were lounging around the lobby of the Bear Mountain Inn digesting their 10 a.m. breakfast of steak and baked potatoes and waiting to get taped up. In one corner of the lobby backfield coach Milt Piepul and line coach John Dell Isola were discussing the coming game. "You know," Milt said, "I don't like it. Last week before the Penn game the boys were relaxed, but they had a sorta gleam in their eyes. Today they're relaxed all right, but there's no gleam. I think it may be a rough afternoon."
It didn't take Coach Earl Blaik's Army team long to find out just how relaxed the Big Green was and to prove Milt Piepul somewhat of a prophet. Not that the Big Green hadn't been warned. All week long the coaches had stressed the hard-hitting ability of the Cadets. One of the first things the squad was told at their Friday night briefing was that Army would pass as soon as they got their hands on the ball. They would pass quick and long and once the passes had opened up our secondary, they would run hard up the middle and off- tackle.
The Blaclc Knights of the Hudson did exactly as predicted. Taking the opening kickoff on their own 39-yard stripe, Army took just four plays to reach the Dartmouth 15. Pete "Moving" Vann, who replaced the injured Dick Boyle at quarter- back, threw two passes to Lowell Sisson which accounted for 42 yards while Paul Schweikert, the line-plunging Army full- back, accounted for the other yardage. Then it was Schweikert again roaring through the middle from the 15-yard line to the goal. A savage tackle dropped him and he fumbled the ball in the end zone where Dartmouth captain Pete Reich pounced on it and Army had two points. Seconds later Vann hurled a long pass to Army halfback Fred Attaya who scored standing up, but this TD was called back as Army drew a backfield in motion penalty. The Cadets would not be denied. They went 47 yards in just six plays for the first touchdown. Vann passed twice to end Bob Mitschack for 31 yards, Schweikert ran for the balance and then plunged for the score. Dartmouth couldn't get the ball past their own line and on a return of a Dartmouth punt Don Fuqua galloped 40 yards, Schweikert romped 27 more on a delayed buck and Vann tossed a touchdown pass to Sisson for the 2nd Cadet tally.
And thus it went with Vann's passes eating up the yardage, with fullbacks Schweikert and later De Luccia gaining almost at will along with halfbacks Attaya and John Wing. At halftime the Cadets had piled up 37 points, gaining a total of 380 yards, 207 by running and 173 via the air. The Big Green, thwarted by the stalwart Army defense and by their own fumbling
and miscues, came up with a net loss of 15 yards during that disastrous first half. At halftime in the dressing room Coach Tuss McLaughry informed his charges that this was the highest first-half score that had ever been rolled up against one of his teams in 33 years of coaching. "But let's forget this first half," he told the boys with admirable restraint. "Let's play this second half as if it were another game." Dartmouth did. They held the Cadets scoreless and late in the third period sophomore quarterback Ross Ellis, who replaced Jim Miller, tossed a 23-yard pass to sophomore halfback Bob Donohue. Donohue snatched the pass from the hands of the Army safety man and went over to score the only Big Green touchdown of the afternoon. In the final period Army, which had been content to stay on the ground for the third quarter, took to the air again, but the Dartmouth defense had tightened and Vann's passes were not successful. Unfortunately the damage had been done and what might have been a tight game had been turned into a lopsided defeat.
HEADING SOUTH: Dick Collins, on a handoff from quarterback Jim Miller, scoots around right end for a gain of 19 yards in the first period of the game with Holy Cross in Hanover.
