Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-26
Big Green Donates
Third Consecutive
Defeat to Harvard

night, the Green waved IN triuiiipiI
over the Crimson in the great gray
Stadium here while madly cheering
Dartmouth crowd snake-uancee
across the gridiron in celenratlon ao oa
a victory over Harvard. The score
was 80 to 9. For Dartmouth 1t was
the fourth straight victory or the
season. For Harvard it was the sec
ond defeat in two weeks, ana tne
seyerest setback the Crimson mas
ever suffered at the hands OF ner
New Hampshire rival. A capacity
crowd of $4,000 saw the game.
The shadow of impending defeat
Law heavily on Dartmouth in the mrs.
period, The Harvard machine scored
q field goal in the first four minutes
OF play and the much vaunted Green
offensive broke against the heavy
Crimson line. Not once did Dart
mouth hold the ball in Harvard ter
ritory and the ball only went into the
Crimson end of the field as tne resui.
of two 'kick-offs and a weak punt
that lust carried beyond midfield.
In the waning minutes OF the hrst
period the Dartmouth uelense
.stiffened and there was begun an
attack which, in the second period,
carried As yards against Harvard
led by "Swede" Oberlander ably
seconded by his running mate, Miles
Lane, fortified with a stubborniy
Efghting line, Dartmouth fought It's
|.way repeatedly down the held,
scored two touchdowns in the Sec
ond period, two more in the third and
another in the fourth. Oberlanoer
gained 122 yards in rushes against
the Harvard line, hurled forward
passes that netted 1913 yards ana
two touchdowns. scored one toucE-
down himself and ran 129 ya1ds
after intercepting forward pass.
Lane scored two touchdowns,
gained As yards from scrimmage'.
and carried the ball in forward pass
es which gained 28>yards.
Cheek fought valiantly for Har-
ward, his seven yard gain and 20
yard forward pass leading directly TO
his field goal. Crosby averaged 20
yards in running back Dartmouth
punts and kick offs and scored Har-
wards only touchdown. Howe raced
so yards back through the Dartmouth
team after receiving Diehls klck-off
| in the third quarter and placed Har-
ward in a position to score its touch
down.
Dartmouth after failing to make a
first down in the opening period ran
I'D a TOTAL OIL 10 TO LUZ I1oi NoA u
Rallying under the string of Har-
ward score Dartmouth unleashed a
savage attack in the second period.
An Intercepted pass halted a 40
yard advanceat the Harvard 36 yard
line. Marching the same distance
again on the strength of an Ober-
| lander-Lane offensive, 40 yard
gain was registered. An exchange OF
punts, Oberlander to Lane, passes
and gains by the same pair. yielded
the first touchdown by Lane. Seven
more plays, which carried Dartmouth
50 yards, yielded the second touch
down, by Oberlander.
An. exchange of punts opened the
third period. Two Oberlander runs
won 81 yards. Horton twice hit the
lire and once more Dartmouth scored
when McPhail went over. 1t was inns
mediately afterward that Howe made
his sensational 9 yard dash. Gains
by Crosby and an is yard Dartmouth
penalty gave Crosby the ball on the
Dartmouth VITO yard line and ne
scored a touchdown. A few minutes
later 60 yard Dartmouth advance,
featured by Oberlander's deadly ac-
curate passes, and tackle plunges
were climaxed by Lanes second
touchdown.
Dartmouth,s last touchdown came
early in the last period on a pass.
Oberlander to Tully, that carried so
yards. Then, in the slowly deepen
ing twilight came rapidly changing
scenes with the ball changing hands
ondowns, fumbles, Intercepted pass
es and punts. harvard ctrove franti-
cally to gain by forward passing
the Crimson attempting IS in this
period. Four succeeded, ten failed,
four were intercepted. The game
ended with a Green forward pass
grounded over the Harvard goal lins.
The lineup:
HARVARD co. (s2) DARTMOUTH
Sayles, lie go. lie, FULLY
Lindner, 1t ............... 1t. Hardy
Kiigour. lg .............. lg, Diehl
Macomber, C ............ c, DAVIS
G. Bradford, re- .......... re-, Smith
Pratt, TT ........ TT, Parker (capt)
Adle, re ........... re, rage
Cheek. (capt) OBJ ...... oh, McPhail
Crosby, In ................. In, Lane
Miller, rh .......... RI, Oberlander
Maher, fb ............... I'D, Horton
Score by periods:
Harvard ......... o o. 8
Dartmouth 1900. 0 IL 10 7-32 |
Harvard scoring Touchdowns,
Crosby. Goal from field, Cheek.
Dartmouth scoring - Touchdown5,
Lane (2), Oberlander. McPhail,
Tully. Points from try after touch
down, Tully (2).s
Referee, O'Brien, Tufts. Umpire, |
Murphy, Brown. Field judge, Okeson,
Lehigh. Head linesman, McGratn,
RoStop CO1laoo