Cornell at Dartmouth

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 16, 1947, page 43

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  Cornell 21–⁠13 Victim Of Alert Dartmouth; Indians Even Series HANOVER, N. H., Nov. 15.- Dartmouth’s hard driving and vigiliant Indians cashed every scoring opportunity to square their 31-game football series with Cornell with q 2l-13 victory today before chilled 10000 crowd on snow-surrcunded Memorial Field. The rugged green youngsters banged out their first break Of the game early in the opening period when Tackle Dick Gowen smashed through on Cornell’s 15-yard line and blocked Bob Dean punt that Don Jenkins smothered in the end zone for a touchdown. The Indians kept the Big Red team bottled up tightly during the remainder of the first period and then capitalized on two more Cor nell miscues in each of the last two periods. Just as the third session got under way. Norm Dawson got the 1thacans rolling by banging IL yards to Cornell’s ~ before taking off on a 73-yard scoring dash outside his right tackle. Dartmouth ruined Deans placement try for the tying point. Shortly after the Indians clinched matters when Stu Young recovered a Dawson tumble on Cornell’s %, a recovery that set the stage for Joe Sullivan’s 7-yard scoring pass to Winger Dale Armstrong. Roy Truncellito steered the In dians back to the touchdown road by intercepting Dawson overhead and returning it 40 yards to Cor nell’s 5, from where Sub Fullback Fran O’Brien banged over without feeling an unfriendly hand. Bob Carey replaced OBrien and his conversion gave the Indians a 21–⁠6 lead that lived until the last minute of the game when Dart mouth checked a 65-yard aerial advance on its Is and then ,Hannigan punted out to Dawson In mid field. That speedster returned 1t 80 yards and only seconds remained when Dean contacted Winger Matt Bolger with a 20-yard touchdown heave.

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Dartmouth leads 54–⁠32–⁠1 in 87 meetings, counting the 56 since this game.