Dartmouth at Cornell

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 14, 1948, page 43

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  Big Red Grabs tumble, Gains 27–⁠26 Triumph In Last Three Minutes -. ITHACA, N. Y, Nov. 13.-Bot Dean led Cornell to rousing two touchdown rally in the last quarter today to nip Dartmouth, 27–⁠26, in a spine-tingling Ivy League game that sent 10000 spectators home talking to themselves. Subbing at fullback for JEFF Fleischmann, who Was carried from the field with broken ankle in the second period, Dean drove over from point blank range, less than one foot out, to tie the game with minutes and 40 seconds to 60. Then the handy senior dropped back and booted perfect placement point to put the Big Red on the right side of the ledger, with a chance to win the Ivy crown If it can whip Penn Thanksgiving Day. tumble Helps Cornell. After closing the gap to six points on Paul Girolamo’s smash in the first two minutes of the last period, the Big Red opportunists took advantage of a tumble to win. John Clayton, a master faker out of the T formation for DaTsmouth all afternoon, faxed once too often. He, spun in a fake handof and Bob Ellis, an alert Cornell guard, grabbed the ball right out of his hands. Ellis lost control, but Eric Jensen recovered on Cornell’s 80. Using Dean and Moose Miller, Cornell moved to the Dartmouth 3 in six plays. 1t took three smashes by Dean at the middle of the line to rack up a first down one foot from the end zone. Then Dean bulled over tackle for the all-important tying touchdown. Nip and Tuck ALI Way. 1t was nip-and-tuck game all the way with Dartmouth scoring in the first two minutes on a buck by Herb Carey from one foot out. Six minutes later Frank Bradley stepped away for a 69-yard Cornell touch down run and Dean added his first of three placements. Cornell led .7-6 Dartmouth took to the air in the second period with Clayton heaving is yards to Joe Sullivan for the tie-breaking score Early in the third period, after Bill Spoor recovered Bradley’s tumble, Clayton hit Tom Rowe from “a yards out for another score. A 39-yard run by Miller gave Cornell its second score, but Dart mouth bounced right back when Hal Fitkin drove across from the 2, following 74-yard broken field jaunt by Sullivan. That sent Dartmouth into the last period with a 26–⁠14 lead to protect, but 1t couldn’t do it.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, November 15, 1948, page 3 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL :. SCORES tlnal scoles ot important col lege football games played over the weekend are as follows: OSC 20; Utah 20. Washington T; UCLA 32. Utah State 6; Denver 4l. Idaho 28; Portland 0. Wisconsin 26; Marquette 0. South Carolina 27; Tulsa 2. Oklahoma 41; Nebraska IA. Mississippi 16; Tennessee 13. Texas A and M 6; Rice 28. Texas Christian T; Texas IA. California A; WSC IA. Minnesota 2S; Iowa 2l. Colorado IS; Missouri 27. Northwestern T; Notre Dame 12 Pittsburgh 20; Purdue 13. Virginia 2; West Virginia 0. Duke 21; George Washington 0. Michigan State 48; Iowa s. 2. Southern Methodist IA; Arks l2. Indiana 0; Michigan 54. N. Carolina 49 Maryland 20. Dartmouth 26; Cornell 27. William Mary IA; Boston Col 14 Ohio State 34; Illinois ‘. Brown 19; Harvard 30. Temple 0; Penn State AT. Alabama IA Georgia Tech 12. Kansas 20 Kansas State ‘. Santa Clara l0 St. Mary’s 2. Detroit 27; St. Louis U. IA. Navy 0; Columbia IS. Ohio w. T: Lafayette 27. Colgate 20; Syracuse 13. Auburn IA; Georgia 42. Clemson 21; Wake Forest IA. Fordham 6; Holy Cross IS. Princeton 20; Yale IA. Army 26; Penn 20. Franklin and Marshall 2; Muh. 40. Carnegie Tech 0: Lehigh 20.

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Dartmouth leads 54–⁠32–⁠1 in 87 meetings, counting the 55 since this game.