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On the Sporting Side By «sideiiner" P 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 C 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. T 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. 196 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 C 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 T 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- Cornell Alumni News
tain Ed Rock '50 pass in the second period. It was Epler again who led the second-half offensive. First, he hit Jack Ross '51 with a pass in the end zone and then he scored one himself on a quarterback sneak. Bill Phillips '51 bulled through the line from eight yards out and Dick Reilly '49 ended the touchdown parade when he bucked over from the Wildcat two. Anderson added 2 extra points. Although at this writing the schedule of the Eastern Intercollegiate 150pound Football League is not entirely completed, it appears that the Cornell record of three victories and two defeats puts them in third place among the six teams. Coach this year has been Thomas J. Kane '46, Senior in Arts and brother of Director Robert J. Kane '34. The lineup: Left end: John H. Ross '51, Lowville Left tackle: Rocco L. Lapenta '50, Nyack Left guards: Thomas Weissenborn '50, Montclair, N. J.; Erwin B. Winokur '49, Great Neck Center: Manley H. Thaler '50, Ithaca Right guard: Robert M. Wainwright '51, Mohawk Right tackle: Albert P. Got '51, Syracuse Right end: Edward J. Rock '50, Floral Park Quarterback: James W. Epler '51, Bellerose Left halfbacks: James K. Bell '51, Oak Park, 111.; Richard G. Reilly '49, Buffalo; Edward R. Reifsteck '51, Rochester Right halfbacks: Richard C. Corwith '50, Water Mill; John B. W. Anderson '51, Jamestown Fullbacks: Richard G. Morrow '51, Penn Yan; William E. Phillips '51, Chicago, 111. C OACH Riders Take All Stephen J. Roberts '37 and his veteran polo team, one that rode into the Intercollegiate finals last year, are off to a fast start. Over the first five opponents met, the Red riders have been victorious. In the first match of the season, Harvard was defeated 23-5. The Cortland Polo Club was then edged out, 14-13, and an alumni team was overcome, 27-11, with the undergraduate team given a 10-goal handicap. Williams College was the next victim, losing 18-8, and November 13, Cornell defeated the Akron Polo Club, 16-15, in a suddendeath overtime contest. Chick Gandal '51, riding at the number one position, has been high man in each contest. Other regulars are Captain Bud Strouss '49 and Jack Morgan '52. The polo team operates independently of the Athletic Association. Toward its support the Cornell Polo Club raised money from parking at football games and had the checking concession at the Autumn Week End (Continued on page 200) December /, 1948 Cornell 27—Dartmouth 26 • CθRNEι_1_'«tv l =f:msT-Dov/fJ\ ιχα:ιJcoMί>l.ere>rtisXxχχ^u«βuEXsDe.-I>eAi>SAKU Vv OJ>ΛRrMoo-rv4\.θ l2 F «(ζST Dow>i S H, < 0'J^cortPi.EτePAiί»'\? »Ve*4Λlτ /Xos-θuτθp^ourtΛU .^S < -v Cornell 14—Colgate 6 197
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Page 7 and 8: PAEENTS CHILDREN Hopple, William H.
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