Rugby

Several hundred shirt-sleeved undergraduates and their dates sat in the stands at Memorial Field the Saturday morning of Green Key and watched a Dartmouth rugby team put on "a jolly good show" and nose out a Harvard team by the score of 3-0. As nearly as your correspondent can make out, this score represents a "try" (touchdown), which was not followed by a conversion. The touchdown counts three points and is made in the same fashion as an American touchdown—namely, by carrying the ball over the goal line. This result was engineered by Dartmouth's Billy Biggs, who has starred in basketball for the past three years, taking off on a 30-yard dash to the Harvard five-yard line. He was tackled there, but made a backward lateral to Pete Reich, captain-elect of football (see below), who carried the ball over and touched it down in the end zone.

This contest was the fourth of the season for the Dartmouth team, which played most of its games in Bermuda during spring vacation. For players and spectators alike, once you catch on to the rudiments, it is a very good game indeed. The clients sat on their hands for the first half in complete bewilderment, but in the second half they began to applaud. Ex-footballer Pete Bogardus described the game over the public-address system. The aforementioned Biggs and Reich were the stars for Dartmouth, aided and abetted by Kent Calhoun, Burt Dorsett, Bill Daly, and Captain Don Wheatley, who played the game in England. The Green played most of the last half with two men short (that is, 13 out of 15) because of injuries suffered by two of the Dartmouth players. In this game, if anybody is hurt, the game goes on with that many fewer players. What with no pads and all, this is a tough game.

SOMETHING DIFFERENT for Big Green sports fans was provided on Green Key Weekend when Harvard and Dartmouth engaged in a rugby match, won by the home forces, 3-0. The action above is what's known as a scrum.