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1949 Football
RINCETON returns to the Varsity
football schedule next year,
to complete the "Ivy League" roster,
except Brown. Cornell will again play
nine games:
Sept. 24 Niagara at Ithaca
Oct. 1 Colgate at Ithaca
8 Harvard at Cambridge
15 Yale at New Haven
22 Princeton at Ithaca
29 Columbia at Ithaca
Nov. 5 Syracuse at Ithaca
12 Dartmouth at Hanover
24 Pennsylvania at Philadelphia
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Beat Colgate in Rain
ORNELL yielded Colgate a touchdown
in the first half and then
plowed through the mud on rainsoaked
Schoellkopf Field, November
6, for scores in the third and fourth
quarters to defeat the Red Raiders,
14-6. By winning this one, their sixth
victory in seven starts, the James
Boys captured the New York State
"Big Three'' championship, having
previously defeated Syracuse.
Playing on a wet field for the first
time this year, Cornell seemed to have
difficulty in getting under way in the
early stages of the game. Colgate, on
the other hand, clicked when Mc-
Laughlin passed to Egler who ran, unmolested,
twenty yards for his team's
only tally. Rip Haley '51 seemed to
have the play broken up, but failed
in his attempt to bat down the slippery
ball.
Jeff Fleischmann '51 crossed the
double lines for Cornell's first 6 points,
climaxing a forty-six-yard march with
a nine-yard plunge through center.
The second touchdown was made by
Bob Dean '49. Working the last quarter
at quarterback, Dean faked a
handoff, kept the ball, and circled left
end for fourteen yards to score. Paul
Girol^mo '50 assisted with a key block.
ΪDean added both points after touchdowns.
As it has for most of the season, the
defensive team kept its opponents'
running attack under control, limiting
the visitors to seventy-eight yards by
rushing, while Cornell picked up 225
yards.
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Freshmen Still Win
HE Freshman football team continued
its winning ways against
the Colgate frosh, November 6, with
a 19-13 victory on rain-soaked lower
Alumni Field. As before this fall,
Quarterback Rocco Calvo and Fullback
Stu Merz led the attack. Merz,
a 193-pαunder from South Orange, N.
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J., scored the first two Cornell touchdowns
on runs of nine yards and fiftytwo
yards. Calvo passed to Vic Pujo,
an end, for thirteen yards and the
third touchdown in the first half. Hal
Seidenberg added one point after
touchdown.
Colgate scored in the second and
last quarters. This game was the
fourth straight win for the Freshmen
and the first defeat for the visitors.
Thriller with Dartmouth
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ORNELL 27, Dartmouth 26. That
was the final score of as wild and
exciting a football game as has ever
been played on Schoellkopf Field, a
game that was played before 30,000
spectators, November 13, in rain, sunshine,
sleet, and gusty winds. It seems
that whenever exciting football games
are played, the Big Red and the Green
horde from Hanover are always involved.
In this series that dates back
to 1900, Cornell has now won sixteen
games, Dartmouth fifteen, and one
has resulted in a tie. There have been
many thrillers among them, the standout
until now the 1926 game, which
Cornell won 24-23 with a field goal in
the last ten seconds by Captain Emerson
Carey, Jr. '26. But from seeing
them both, your reporter has no hesitation
in saying that even that game
must now take a back seat to the
contest of 1948.
With thirteen minutes to play, the
score stood Dartmouth 26, Cornell 14.
Then Paul Girolamo '50 slammed
through the line to tally the touchdown
that brought the Big Red within
sight of winning. After the Cornell
kickoff, Clayton, a fine quarterback
and forward passer for Dartmouth all
afternoon, had the ball batted from
his hands by Captain Joe Quinn '49,
and Red Jensen '51 recovered near
midfield. A few plays later and with
the clock showing but two minutes to
go, Bob Dean '49, playing in the place
of Jeff Fleischmann '51, Cornell's
hard-driving fullback who had been
carried off the field with a broken
ankle in the second quarter, went over
from the one-foot line with the tally
that tied the score at 26-all. The same
Mr. Dean then stepped back and
booted the point that gave his team
its seventh victory in eight starts.
Seconds later, Chuck Taylor '50,
backer-up, intercepted a desperate
Dartmouth pass to stop the final
Green threat.
As the game ended, delirious Cornellians
uprooted their own goal posts
and hoisted Bob Dean to their shoul-
ders. It was a big day for the Bloomington,
Ind., lad who has been a workhorse
for the Big Red the last three
years. In this game he averaged 7.6
yards a carry in ten times, 45.7 yards
a kick on seven punts, kicked three of
four tries for the point after touchdown,
and kicked off. To top it all, he
was scheduled to become a father that
day (but didn't).
But all the action wasn't confined
to the last part of the game; not by a
long shot! Dartmouth scored after but
two minutes of play. Six minutes
later, Frank Bradley '50, wearing a
special mask to protect his broken
jaw, got away around his own right
end on a nearly-perfect play that went
seventy yards, to even the count. In
the second quarter, Dartmouth scored
again on a pass from Clayton to Sullivan,
who caught the ball in the end
zone. Early in the second half, Clayton
passed for another Green touchdown,
this time to Rowe. Three minutes
later, Cornell tallied on a thirty-eightyard
run by Frank Miller '51. Then
came the most spectacular run of the
game, a seventy-five-yard jaunt by
Dartmouth's Sullivan. Apparently
stopped at the line of scrimmage and
with his helmet ripped off, he bulled
his way loose and, reversing his field
several times, worked his way without
assistance from his team-mates to the
two-yard line, from which point Fitkin
scored what then seemed to be the
clincher. But later events proved
otherwise!
Coach Lefty James called this the
greatest game he had ever seen in his
eighteen years of coaching, and was
lavish in his praise of all his players.
Outstanding among the linesmen were
Captain Quinn, who played the best
game of his career, Dick Clark '50,
Walt Bruska '50, and the fighting
center, Johnnie Pierik '51.
Lightweights End Season
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HE 150-pound football team
scored its second victory of the
season when it defeated Pennsylvania,
27-12, on lower Alumni Field, November
5. Jim Bell '52 scored on a cross
buck two minutes after hostilities
started. Jim Epler '51 passed to Bell
for a second score late in the half. In
the third quarter it was Bell again on
a running play, and in the final period
Dick Cor with '50 scored on a ten-yard
plunge through center. Jack Anderson
'51 added 3 extra points out of
four chances by placekicks. Penn
scored in the second and fourth
quarters.
The 150's brought their season to a
close at Villanova, Pa., November 12,
overwhelming Villanova, 34-7. After a
scoreless first quarter, Cornell tallied
on a safety and a Jim Epler-to-Cap-
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