Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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to the enemy 36. Two aerials, Richards to Dugan, brought the ball to the 1-yard stripe, and Wolfe made the touchdown. Next, in four first downs, the Little Quakers drove from their own 38 for another touchdown, sparked by Lin Wolfe ' s end drives; Bill Richards took the pigskin across through a hole at center, but the vital conversion failed. The second half was a slightly changed picture, with the air black with Oberlin passes. The potent passing combination, Briggs to receivers Mul- hauser or Worchester, advanced the ball to the Swarth- more IS. A pass to Mulhauser in the end zone looked like the real thing to Yeomen rooters, and a good conver- sion didn ' t shatter the illusion. But that wasn ' t the end. From the Garnet 28 Ken Briggs wafted a beautiful long express into the arms of Beers in the touchdown area, who made the tally despite potential Garnet interference in the vicinity. The game was won by the subsequent fair conversion by Wilson. Intercepted passes and the Penn State delayed reverse were big factors in the four Swarthmore touchdowns that massacred Hamilton 26 to 6 on November 2. Things began to pop after the second half whistle sounded; a Penn State reverse was good for a touchdown as Fred Reed scampered across from the liamilton 32. On the next Hamilton punt, Reed ran the ball up to the Con- tinental 26, and again the Penn State reverse clicked for 25

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through consistently at tackle and around end. The final score of the game remained 7 to 0, in favor of the Crusaders. Things looked rosier on October 19, when the Swarth- more team took the measure of Earlham College for a 13 to 6 victory. The whole game boiled down to our running attack versus their passing, with the Garnet making more yardage on the deal. Swarthmore took the first kickoff to march 92 yards for a touchdown, scored by Richards from the 3 -yard marker. In the final frame both teams made pointage. To begin things the Garnet ran back an intercepted pass from its own 48, blasted its way down the field, and made the score when Lin Wolfe went over from the 4-yard stripe. With 45 seconds left in the game, the Hoosiers saved themselves from an inglorious whitewash by a last-minute drive and a successful pass across the Garnet goal line. The game with Oberlin was a tough one to lose. The Garnet squad looked decidedly superior in power and deception during the entire contest, but an inadequate pass defense on the part of the home team gave the visiting Crimson and Gold the game by the margin of one conversion, 14 to 13. The first half of the struggle pointed the way to what seemed to promise a Swarthmore victory. Starting on his own 23, Richards gained through the line, and Wolfe reversed his field for a beautiful run .iu IXR ,01 ES

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the score. When Hannum ' s placement missed the up- rights the score stood 13 to for Swarthmore. The visitors ' touchdown was made several plays after they had intercepted a pass, with most of the starting Garnet lineup off the field. A pass from the Swarthmore 22- yard line was good for the touchdown. With the little Quaker regulars back in the contest, the next Swarth- more touchdown was set up by an interception by Richards, who ran the hall to the Blue and Buff 40. Reed then tallied on a magnificent left-end sweep, drifting through a mase of tacklers in the process. Again made possible by an interception, the final Garnet touchdown was scored from the Hamilton 4-yard marker on Wolfe ' s right-end sweep. Last home game of the year was the traditional Drexel Tech contest, this year held November 9, on Alumni Field. With a packed grandstand for encouragement, the local team did a creditable job on the visiting Dragons, who found themselves at the tail end of an 18 to 6 score. Pass defense had perked up after the Oberlin affair, and the only Drexel score was made on an intercepted lateral which was run to the Swarthmore 6 and pushed across on the next play. The first Garnet touchdown resulted from a poor Dragon kick downed on the Drexel 24-yard line. Line plunges, a pass snared by Jack Dugan on the five, and a drive through right tackle by Wolfe brought the first score. In the third period a drive from the Swarthmore 35, sparked by Wolfe and Trautman, gained in repeated power drives through the line and around end, and lined up another tally in the Swarthmore column. The drive for the other six points picked up from the Drexel 41 and blasted its way on straight line bucks and end runs to the 27. The Penn State reverse put the ball across, Fred Reed making the final score. As a season finale, the 20 to 7 victory over Johns Hopkins on November 16 was worth seeing; all of the deception, all of the ground power of the season v ere at their best. All kinds of reverses were used; long ones, delayed ones, even double reverses. The first Garnet touchdown was the result of a 72 -yard voyage to the end zone which left a trail of first downs in its wake; a neat double reverse, Richards to Reed to Ramsey yielded a good slice of territory on the v. ' ay. In the second period the Little Quaker offensive had a bewildered Hopkins team running in circles. After six straight first downs the Garnet found itself camped on the Jays two- yard stripe. Bill Richards then ran the ball across and converted for the 14 to score. The third period fea- tured a lethargic exchange of punts. Jay Captain Spilman versus Lin Wolfe. The final frame saw scores on both sides. A blocked kick was run up to the Hopkins 32 by Reed, and on the next play Wolfe threaded his way through the entire enemy team for 26 yards and a touchdown. With the score 20-0 against them and the DUGAN KNUD-H. NSEN