Won Some

DARTMOUTH'S overall record for the season was 4-6. After defeating Harvard, 30-12, at Hanover, Dartmouth lost to Cornell, 7-3, in the rain at Ithaca in a regionally televised game. Yale easily handled the Green, 35-7, at Hanover, and Dartmouth blasted Columbia, 48-0, at Memorial Field the next week. That set the stage for the Brown game at Providence. "The Brown game should be a beauty. . . .

They have an explosive offense that can turn a game around in a hurry," said coach Joe Yukica before the contest. Yukica was right. The game was a classic, but it was the Dartmouth offense that exploded and turned the game around as mid-November darkness engulfed Brown Stadium and a stunned Homecoming Day crowd of 14,250.

Brown jumped off to a 10-0 first-half lead, which was narrowed to 10-7 when sophomore Peter Lavery ran back the second-half kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown. Only Tom Fleming in 1973, Bob Lee in 1930, and John Short in 1969 had had longer kickoff returns for Dartmouth. Lavery's run, however, failed to give the Green momentum. Brown rebounded with two touchdowns to give the Bruins a 24-7 lead with only eight minutes and two seconds left in the fourth quarter. It took Dartmouth two plays and 19 seconds to narrow the margin to 24-15 on Sean Maher's 11-yard run and a Kemp-to-Shula two-point conversion.

The Dartmouth defense limited Brown to four offensive plays. When Dartmouth got the ball back, it marched 52 yards in ten plays and came up with a touchdown when Kemp tossed a nine-yarder to Shula in the corner of the end zone. The drive had consumed only one minute and 53 seconds and cut Brown's lead to 24-21 with three minutes and 52 seconds left. Dartmouth gave Brown four plays and took over the ball again on its own 39-yard line. Sixty-nine seconds later, Maher scored his second touchdown on nine-yard run. Dartmouth had scored three touchdowns in an elapsed time of only three minutes and 21 seconds. "It was our most satisfying win because we came from so far behind," said Yukica after the game. "It goes to show you can't take anything for granted in a college football game."