Evening star., 1940-11-17
0utought 81 Minutes
Red Saves Perfect
Slate With Pass
Reporters Charts Fail
To Beur OUT indians
Claim of Miscount
By the Associated Press.


By the Associated Press.
HANOVER, N. H, Nov. 16.-
Mighty Cornell, one of the Nations
outstanding football teams, was
rocked and shaken by an inspired
band of Dartmouth Indians for 81
minutes today before it unleashed
a belated aerial drive that gave 1t
q 7-3 victory before startled crowd
OF 10000.
Outfought until the last three
minutes of play by their underdog
rivals, the Ithacsns pulled the game
out of the fire during the last 6
seconds of play wnen, on dis
puted fourth down and s yards to
go, Walt Scholl ended a 57-yard
overhead thrust by tossing touch
down pass to Halfback Bill Murphy.
That more than offset the 17-yard
placement field goal the Indians
Bob Krieger booted early in the
final period.
Capt. Lou Young and his players,
however, insisted that Cornelps
scoring play came on a fifth down.
and just before it was made the
former demanded that Referee
Red" Friesell give his team the
ball on its 20-yard line, for Full
back Ray Hall had batted down a
Scholl pass on the previous play.
The disputed series started after
Scholl had passed to Murphy for
a first down on Dartmouth's 5 with
l minute to play. Cornell then
rushed to the 1-yard line, where,
after stopping the clock by rushing
Right End Al Kelley back into the
game, it drew a 5-yard penalty for
an extra time out.
Writers Charts Bear Out Decision.
Most of the writers charts showed
that Mort Landsberg had rushed
twice and Scholl once before the
latter uncorked the pass that Hall
batted down behind his goal line.
Friesell refused to discuss the game
deciding incident and the only
comment Earl Blaik, the Dartmouth
coach, made was Il have every
confidence in Referee FrieSell."
CornellS Carl Snavely first thought
that both teams had been offslde,
thereby nullifying a play, but the
officials assured him that such had
not been the case.
That thrilling Windup was heart
breaking to the gallant and coura-
geous Dartmouth team that gave
unbeaten Cornell its stiffest argu-
ment since it was last defeated, by
Syracuse early in 1888, 19 games ago.
1t will go into the Big Reds records
as their closest escape since the 1926
Dartmouth game at Ithaca, when
they opened the last period trailing
21-6 and scored twice before Capt.
Emerson Carey kicked last-min-
ute goal for a 1921 victory.
Despite the mangnificent efforts
of Dartmouth's supposedly weak
team, the fact that Cornell's star
ball carriers could not perform up to
their previous high standards on
gridiron made soggy by four days
of rain must be given serious con-
sideration.
Longest Gain Is Yards.
Every one of them but Landsberg
was held to gains of yards or under,
and that fullbacks longest try
netted Is yards in the third period.
Cornell spent most Of the game
rushing and punting deep in its own
territory until the 57th minuate,
when Hall kicked a 50-yard punt to
Landsberg, who returned it 8
yards to his own AZ. There Scholl
launched his successful aerial series,
which included 12-yarder to
Landsberg, 15-yard heave to Jim
Schmuck, the left end and another
that went for first down on Dart
mouths 17-yard line on an inter-
ference ruling Then Scholl passed
to Murphy on Dartmouths 5 to set
the stage for the argument.
Dartmouth lost little time tipping
the Big Reds they were in for an
exciting afternoon, for Halfback
Ray Wolfe ran back Schmuck's
opening kickoff for so yards to Cor
nells As. If he had just a bit more
speed it would have gone for
touchdown, for he was dragged
down from behind
Early in the second period Wolfe,
Hall Ed Kast and Krieger put on a
threatening advance that was
checked when Hal Mccullough re-
covered a tumble on Cornell's 25.
Before the opening half ended the
Indians, with little Joe Arico spark
ing them, travelled 48 yards sto Cor
nells 8, where Kriegers first place
ment try failed.
Late in the third period Hall
pushed the Ithacans deep into their
own territory by punting about so
yards to Cornells 20. When trying
to rush from there Jack Borhman,
then in for Murphy, missed a high
pass from center and had to chase it
back to his before he could smother
1t.
Krieger Kicks Field Goal.
After the teams changed sides for
the finale, Mccullough punted out
~ AI lCO anu lIC IlCb ~ AZ y al I'D
and then made seven more to Cor
nell's 20. Hall then joined Arico in
CARRYING the mail and after they
were checked on CornelfS 8 with
fourth down coming up and three
yards to go, Krieger made good with
his second try for a field goal. On
the last play of the game NICK
Drahos, the 1889 all-America
tackle, place kicked Cornell's seventh
point.
Pos Cornell %. Dartmouth CD.
LIE Schmuck -------------- hrleger
LII Van Order ------------- ,Srego
Dunbar --------------,, iouie
C,------Finneran ----------- FIaeS 1eceY Seii
RG.--C0nu ----------------II IIr,;-at.Sr.
DrahoS -------------- "ntomnIp
RIA Kelley ---------- j. heliey
@ B.----Matuszczak ----------- N9TeUn 3S9
LII. McCullough ------------ WoIle
RH Murphy ---------------- haS!
F.B-Landsberg ---------------H Hail