Dartmouth at Pennsylvania

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 7, 1956, page 1

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  Penn Defeats Dartmouth For FirstWinin 2OGomes PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 6 tR.- The longest current major col lege football losing streak was given a jubilant Quaker burial on sunny Franklin Field before 1859 today as Penn whipped Dartmouth, lat. in the Ivy League opener for both. Penn had lost 10 straight games and showed only a tie to its credit in % games preceding today’s victory. The Rec and Blues last win was a 9-e squeezer over Navy october “a 1858. With the score knotted ~ late in the second period, Penn guard John Sperandio pulled ir a Dartmouth tumble on the Penn 20 as a Mike Brown-Jim burke nanoOH missed nre. Ross called Is straight over. land plays, holding the ball him. self on nine of them, to move 48 yards. The concentrated ground attack had drawn in thu Dartmouth secondary tight when Ross tipped a neat, rs. yard pass to Dick Schafer, il the end zone. Dartmouth had gone into tn, lead midway through the frs quarter. Quarterback Brown son of Cleveland Browns Coacf Paul Brown-got things rollins on the Dartmouth SO and moveC “a yards for the touchdown a 7:09. He went over from the

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Dartmouth leads 36–⁠34–⁠2 in 72 meetings, counting the 48 since this game.