After a discouraging early season, the Dartmouth football team began to find itself in the muck and rain at Harvard Stadium. A driving rain had thoroughly soaked the field and the going was difficult. Both teams fumbled away chances in the first period and neither was able to move effectively.
Early in the second period the Indians took a Harvard punt on their own 30-yard line and marched 70 yards for the only TD of the day. Leading the attack was halfback Jake Crouthamel who gained consistently with short plunges into the line. Halfback Al Rozycki was equally effective on end sweeps and off-tackle slants. With the ball on the Crimson 15, quarterback Bill Gundy hit Rozycki with a screen pass and Al went around end and bulled into the end zone for the score. Ben Urban's attempted conversion was short, but the Indians had a 6-0 halftime lead.
The Crimson mounted several sustained drives in the second half, but Dartmouth's defenses tightened in the crucial spots and the Indians put the game on ice in the fourth stanza when Ben Urban booted an 18-yard field goal to make it 9-0.