Pennsylvania 7, Dartmouth 0
If nothing else the Penn game must be considered a moral victory for the Indians. Rated one of the top teams of the East, the Quakers had tied mighty Notre Dame 7-7 the week before meeting Dartmouth and, after edging by the Indians, went on to stop Princeton's undefeated streak by a 13-7 count. It must be conceded that Coach George Munger's charges were not "up" for this encounter. The Pennsylvania line looked sluggish during most of the contest, and the usually potent Penn backfield could not seem to get out of their own tracks.
The entire game was fought largely at midfield with Dartmouth never penetrating beyond the Penn 30-yard stripe and with the Quakers unable to get beyond the Big Green 25 except on their one scoring play. The Penn TD came suddenly in the middle of the third period when sophomore fullback Walter Hynoski, operat- ing out of the single wing, ran to his left and hurled a 26-yard pass to Bill Deuber. Deuber gathered in the ball on the Dartmouth 40, faked out sophomore safety man Lou Turner and raced down the sidelines to score.
The only other scoring threat that brought the crowd of 35,000 to their feet came in the second period on as freakish a play as this observer has ever seen. Dartmouth quarterback Doug Melville had his attempted punt blocked on the Big Green 40-yard line by Penn's Ail-American end Ed Bell. Charlie Conoway scooped up the ball for the Quakers and went racing for the goal line with four other Penn players tagging along and no one to stop him. Then unexpectedly the pigskin squirted from his hands after he had gone about 15 yards and Melville recovered to get the Indians out of danger.
In the final minutes of the game the Big Green started what might have been a scoring offensive and on a series of short pass and run plays reached the Penn 35- yard marker. At this point Penn's Ed Bell, who was far and away the outstanding player of the day, intercepted a pass thrown by Dartmouth quarterback Ross Ellis, and that was the ball game. Statistics? Net gain for Pennsylvania 30 yards, for Dartmouth 26 yards. And Dartmouth still hasn't beaten Penn since 1933 and won't get a chance for a while as Penn is not 011 the Big Green schedule in either 1953 or 1954.
BIG GREEN COACHING STAFF: Assembled for a pre-practice confab are (I to r) Milt Piepul, backfreld coach; John Dell Isola, line coach; Head Coach "Tuss" McLaughry; and Elmer Lampe, end coach.
