FRESHMAN FOOTBALL
The Pea Green football team turned in another excellent season under Head Coach John Curtis. Overall they were 4-2. The "B" team, under the leadership of Coach Elmer Lampe, posted the only undefeated, untied summary in Hanover, going 1-0-0 against all comers, in this case the Norwich University freshmen, 20-14.
The frosh gained momentum rapidly after their opening loss to Holy Cross and an easy win over Brown. In their first home game, they downed the Yardlings from Cambridge 28-22. The next week they faced an unbeaten Yale frosh squad in New Haven and demolished them 36-7. The opposition this fall seemed to have been picked with care, for the next two squads the Pea Green faced were also undefeated. The University of New Hampshire sent what was rated as their top freshman club in recent years. The Indians were unimpressed, and also wanted to reduce some of the sting from their loss to the Wildcats last season. Coach Curtis had his squad primed for the occasion, and they walked away with the game 31-9.
The final contest, against Boston College at Chestnut Hill, had to be postponed on account of eight inches of snow on the playing field. The BC frosh had earlier downed Dartmouth's JV team 25-22 in Hanover. The Indian frosh had their troubles in the cold, salt air, and fumbled ten times, recovering five themselves. But it was not the fumbles which hurt them most, for the Eagles uncorked the same passing attack that had deceived our JV's. Three long passes, of 58, 62, and 92 yards, all for TDs, seemed to erase Dartmouth hopes for victory. But the Pea Green kept coming back, on the strength of quarterback Jim Chasey's running and passing, balanced by that of halfback John Short, and scored with less than a minute remaining, to trail 20-19. Chasey, from Los Gatos. Calif., gambled on a sprint around end for a two-point conversion and victory. He had been successful on numerous previous attempts, but this time he was caught in the backfield and B.C. retained its narrow 20-19 edge.
Short, from Glendale, Arizona, was the leading rusher on the squad, and against UNH threw a 51-yard TD pass to Chasey on a perfectly executed reverse.
