Dartmouth at Yale

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  Evening star, November 3, 1946, page 35

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  Yale Runs Roughshod Over Dartmouth for First Ivy Loop Win NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. a. Yale won its first Ivy League victory of the season by defeating Dart mouth today, SO to 2. the most decisive margin of victory over Its traditional northern rival since 1896 when the Ellis won ~ to O. Yale stopped Dartmouth’s air at tack by the simple device of intercepting passes and on three occasions interruptions were directly turned into touchdowns. Despite the one-sided contest, q capacity crowd of $1,000 stayed In the Yale Bowl almost to the very end in the expectation that Dart mouth, as it always had done in the past, would unleash an attack. The only brilliant Dartmouth squirt came at the very start of the second half when Conrad Pensavelle ran So yards to the Yale IS only to have Robert Furse of Yale intercept two plays later. Levi jackson, the New Haven “townie” Negro, and Ferd Nadhenry both freshmen, spanked the Yale at tack. Jackson’s longest effective run was 80 yards, but in the fourth quarter he scampered like distance through the line to cross the goal line only to have the touchdown nullified by an offside penalty. Then John Ferguson, 173-pound Yale back, made the longest run OF the game when he went SO yards to score. 2. ts Dartmouth’s two points came in the final period as the result of pen alties that forced Ferguson to at tempt to kick from behind his goal line. The pass from center was poor and went into the end zone.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, November 4, 1946, page 3 (results column)

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  Big Game This Week; Army, Navy NEW YORK, Nov 4-They’ll play the usual quota of college foot ball games on the white-striped fields around the ‘ctuntry this week but to the average fan the only thing that matters will be the National Championship struggle between Army and Notre Dame. Not since the Titanic struck the iceberg has a head-on collision at traeted as much attention as this important clash bringing the na- tion’s two outstanding gridiron powers face to face at New Works Yankee Stadium on Saturday af- tenoon. These two outfits still remain unbeaten and untied-a condition shared only by UCLA and Georgia among all the major elevens in the land. Warm Up Both Of them warmed up to the battle of the year by scoring shut out victories last weekend week end in which Pennsylvania and Harvard were hauled rudely out of the all-victorious class and such once-tied team as Northwestern, North Carolina and Oregon ab- sorbed their first defeats. Metre Dame whipped Navy 28–⁠0 for it’s fifth triumph of the year. In running over Illinois, Pittsburgh. Purdue, Iowa and Navy, the Irish have piled up TIT points while holding these worthy opponents to total of Is. Army 5GJuuea a stupporn West Virginia team 19–⁠0 to run it’s three year victory string to 25 in a TOW. The Cadets have scored POS points this year against Villanova, Okla homa, Cornell, Michigan, Columbia, Duke and West Virginia, allow ing them a total of 55. Mere Than Sollout A crowd of some 80,000 will squeeze into the park that Babe Ruth’s bat built to see the seasons top attraction, and anyone calling it a sellout would be guilty of understatement. Officials say at least million tickets could be sold at S480 a copy if they had the seats. Pennsylvania, upset by Prince ton l7-l4, also plays in New York, against Columbia, which was sur- prised by Cornell 12–⁠0 Harvard, clipped by Rutgers l3–⁠0, returns to Ivy League play where it now tops the standings to invade Dart mouth. A third Ivy League clash sends Brown, 19–⁠2l loser to Holy Cross, into New Haven to test a Yale team which stopped Da.t- mouth 33–⁠2 Other Top Games Other top games in the East will have Syracuse at Cornell, Temple at Penn State, Fordham at West Virginia. Colgate at Holy Cross and Virginia at Princeton. Georgia, the Souths major pow CT, kepts it’s slate unmarred by white washing Alabama 14–⁠0, and bids for further Southeastern Con- ference honors this week at Flori- da. Tennessee, which knocked North Carolina out of the uIl-

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Yale leads 50–⁠33–⁠5 in 88 meetings, counting the 58 since this game.