DARTMOUTH 28 – PENN 0

After the closeness of the score against Bucknell, the 1963 Indian eleven was still a question mark. This, coupled with Penn's 47-0 win over Lafayette, gave many Big Green fans an uneasy feeling as the Indians invaded Franklin Field for their first Ivy League test.

The Quakers, having been shutout in the scoring column since 1959 by the Green, considered this year's contest a Crusade." But it was a much improved Big Green which took the field, and Quaker spirit or not, the Indians rolled to their thirteenth straight victory, 28-0.

Many of the rough edges which had shown against Bucknell had been smoothed over - even the pass defense, though not perfect, looked a good deal better.

The first quarter saw the Indians score twice with apparent ease; both touchdowns coming on long passes from Dana Kelly to end Scott Creelman. On a first down play on his own 46, Kelly sent a man in motion to the left, split an end in the same direction and sent Creelman deep down the right side. As expected, the Penn secondary was faked out of position by the movement to the left and Creelman was ten yards or more behind the nearest defender when he caught Kelly's pass and set sail for the goal line.

Minutes later defensive fullback Dick Horton broke through to partially block a Penn punt and the Indians found themselves on the Quaker 35. On third down, with less than a yard to go, Kelly faked to his fullback Tom Parkinson going up the middle, rolled out to his right and hit Creelman with a perfect strike on the goal line.

The rest of the first half was a defensive battle for the Big Green as the Quakers were stopped on the twelve yard line and then on the two in successive drives. As the clock ran out, the Quakers were again knocking at the door.

Midway through the third period, Erv Buckholder, a defensive back, intercepted a Penn pass on the Dartmouth 42 and ran it back to the Quaker 33. Six plays later second string quarterback Bruce Gottschall plunged over from the two on the Indians' wedge play. The drive was highlighted by the running of Mike Urbanic and Dave Perinchief - two players who should see a lot more action as a result of their fine showing against Penn.

The final Green touchdown was also scored by the second team and came early in the fourth quarter. Halfback Chris Vancura took a Penn punt on his own 40, cut to his left for five yards and then handed off to Perinchief on a reverse play. The junior halfback worked his way down the right sideline behind some fine blocking and went into the end zone standing up. One block in particular by end Tom Clarke helped to give Perinchief plenty of running room.

Gary Wilson completed a perfect day as he kicked four out of four extra points, thus giving him six out of seven for the season. Gary reinjured his knee, however, against Penn and may see limited action as a running halfback, but his kicking should not be affected.

The first team was in on only six offensive plays in the second half as Coach Blackman gave his bench some much needed game experience. Players like Urbanic, Perinchief, Clarke, Ted Bracken, a third string left guard, who took over that position after Dave DeCalesta was hurt, Gerry LaMontagne and others, showed the Green may have considerable depth. Bracken especially demonstrated his skill as a linebacker on defense.

The final statistics revealed that Penn actually made more first downs, 14-9 than the Indians, but most of those were made against the Green reserves. Dartmouth outgained Penn on the ground 123-97, but was beaten through the air 104-82. The pass defense, though, showed definite improvement as several Quaker passes were knocked down in the end zone.

Halfback Dave Law son goes up, almost over in Penn game. No. 81 is Charles Greer.

Dana Kelly eludes two Bucknell tacklers.