The Indians took to the warpath in Philadelphia and ran up the biggest margin to be registered against a Penn team by Dartmouth since 1920. In this game the veterans on the starting team took charge, and King at quarterback showed the poise and ability which the week before was lacking.
The Green looked impressive as it scored the first four times it had the ball. On the second play of the game, King recovered a Quaker fumble on the Penn 27. Eight plays later, he went over from the two for the touchdown. The Indian forward wall held the Quakers on their next series of downs and forced them to punt. Moving from the Dartmouth 42, King then engineered a drive that was sparked by a twelve-yard pass to Carl Funke and a fourteen-yard run by Jim Lemen. Facing a fourth down and six situation, however, on the Penn 21, the Indians elected to go for the field goal. Wellstead stepped back to the 29 and sent the ball through the uprights.
Penn moved the ball only four yards in three downs and again was forced to punt. This time Ron Schram was at the helm as the Indian offensive machine clicked off 48 yards in nine plays. Krumme, Cooke, and Evans shared the ball-carrying assignments, as the Green drove deep into Quaker territory, but it was Vancura who went wide around the right end for two yards and a touchdown.
Down seventeen points, Penn's effort to get back into the ball game was thwarted by a third-down fumble on the Quaker 39. The ball was recovered by Schram. The Green moved well and in ten plays was on the Penn six where it was fourth down and five yards to go. King then hit Krumme with a perfect strike for another six points. Following this touchdown Wellstead missed his first extra point in seven attempts.
In the first half at Philadelphia, Penn had the ball for only fifteen plays and recorded no first downs. But in the second half the Quakers finally came to life. Recovering an Indian fumble on the Dartmouth 36, in two plays Penn covered 32 yards and had a first and goal to go on the four. It was here that the Dartmouth line took charge and stopped Penn on the one-yard line. The Quakers were never again to cross the Green twentyyard stripe.
The final Dartmouth touchdown came in the fourth quarter and was set up when King intercepted a Penn pass. Alert for a possible Quaker aerial, King plucked one out of the air on his own 32 and raced to the Penn 43 before being grounded. On the sequence of plays that followed Spangenberg registered a tenyard gain and Lawson carried four times for 29 yards and a touchdown. The sophomore halfback went off tackle from the ten to notch his second score of the season.
The Green defense was indeed superb as it allowed the Quakers only 91 yards rushing, no pass completions, and four first downs for the afternoon.