Harvard 26, Dartmouth 19

The 56th renewal of the traditional Dartmouth-Harvard rivalry was rated in advance as an even game. Some of the sports writers favored the Crimson, others the Indians, and what odds were on the game were very slim. For a while in the first period, it looked as though Dartmouth would have little difficulty winning. The first time they got their hands on the ball, the Big Green marched 71 yards for a touchdown. The score came on an 11-yard pass from Jim Miller to end Dave McLaughlin, but Hank Fry missed the point-after against the stiff wind that was to be an important factor in the game. Late in the first period the Indians moved downfield again, but this scoring threat was halted when they were penalized for having an ineligible receiver downfield. Then the Crimson started to move with Dick Clasby's passes and fullback John Culver's plunging. The end of the first period found Harvard on the Dartmouth 17-yard line and two plays into the second frame Clasby hit halfback John Ederer in the end zone for the score. Harvard's Monteith missed the conversion, the game was a 6-6 tie.

A few minutes later Dartmouth scored again. After John Ederer fumbled on the Crimson 40, Russ Smale and Dick Collins combined to move the ball to the Harvard 4-yard line on five plays, and then Collins knifed through tackle for the score. Hank Fry converted and Dartmouth had a 13-6 lead. But that was all for the Indians for a while. Five minutes later, deep in its own territory, Dartmouth was forced to punt into the wind. Ross Ellis fumbled the pass from center, picked it up and just barely got a boot away. But the damage was done, and the Crimson had the ball on the Big Green 25-yard line. Harvard took four plays to reach the 2-yard line and then Dick Clasby punched over for the score and Monteith converted to tie up the game.

By now it was apparent that the Big Green would have trouble winning the game. Harvard was running almost at will and the Indian offense seemed to bog down. Midway through the third period the Crimson moved downfield again and scored on a 22-yard pass from Clasby to Ederer. As the third period ran out, it was Harvard again driving deep into Dartmouth territory on running plays which the Indians couldn't check. Ihe period ended with the ball on the Dartmouth 7-yard line and two plays into the fourth quarter fullback John Culver plunged across from the one-yard marker to make it 26-13 for Harvard.

Late in the final quarter the Indians started to move on desperation passes by Jim Miller and went 61 yards, mainly through the air, for their final score. It was Russ Smale, on a two-yard plunge, who gave the Indians their final TD. But that was all as the clock ran out before Dartmouth could put together another drive, and the Indians had lost their fourth game of the 1952 season.

BERMUDA BOUND: Coach Dent and five of his soccer players will go to Bermuda during Christmas vacation to meet British and Bermuda opponents. Dent will coach the college all-star team, made up of players from Dartmouth, Cornell, Yale and Princeton. Shown above are (I to r): John R:ce '53, Tom Dent, Jack Hall '53 (Captain). Back row: Bob Drawbaugh '54 and Dick Roberts '54. Bud Addis '54, not in the picture, will also make the trip.