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...touchdown. Thereafter, he made a tackle that prevented a Dartmouth score, knocked down one pass, intercepted another, threw one to Barres for a gain of 22 yd., then caught one from Todd and ran 2 2 yd. for another touchdown. After the kick-off and one of Morton's long Dartmouth punts. Booth took the ball again, squirmed through a gap at right tackle, cut over to the sidelines and, with End John Sargent for bodyguard, scampered 53 yd. for his third touchdown in one period...
Having provided his team with what seemed a safe margin, Gnome Booth retired to the sidelines, watched Dartmouth creep up. In the last half he returned to the lineup but by this time McCall and Morton were making a turncoat of the jinx that has bothered Dartmouth in previous Yale Bowl games. Morton had made a 94-yd. runback of a Yale kickoff. McCall caught a pass intended for Booth, scuttled 60 yd. for a touchdown. Three minutes before the game ended the score which had been Yale 33, Dartmouth 10 had become Yale 33, Dartmouth 30. Standing on Yale...
...sprint, that fracas might have ended in a tie. In the epic battle with Yale last Saturday this great ground-gainer piled up more yards than any other back in the game, not excluding Albie Booth, and pulled off some remarkably spectacular runs. Dartmouth's other great threat, Bill Morton, put on last year one of the most beautiful exhibitions of kicking seen in the Stadium for a long time, and his accurate toe was the chief factor in his team's 7 to 2 victory over the Crimson. But good as these two backs may have been this season...
...Morton, signal caller and backfield spark plug of the invading Big Green...
...Hallowell Ginman Hardy Nazro Right End Right Tackle Right Guard Center Left Guard Left Tackle Left End 195 225 202 181 194 192 172 Mackey Barber Pylcs Kimball Hoffman Durgin Donner Left End Left Tackle Left Guard Center Right Guard Right Tackle Right End 172 173 176 181 Frigard Morton Hedges McCall Left Halfback Quarterback Fullback Right Halfback DARTMOUTH