Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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Swarthmore second string in, the bedraggled Jays began to perk up. Passing was their only method of over- coming the aggressive Garnet line play, and two successive aerials set the ball on the visitors ' 2 -yard marker, Nance tallying on the next play. A powerful freshman squad this season will back up next year ' s lineup with powerful reserves, and possibly supplement the 1941 starting lineup. However, to replace several of the graduating seniors should prove something of a job: 1940 Captain Tony Degutis was the solid block- ing power behind many of those spectacular Garnet gains that plowed unbelievably through enemy defenses; Smokey Ramsey ' s ability to sense the course of opponents ' play and knife in for an effective tackle will be missed; Fred Donnelly ' s steady blocking and efficient tackling won ' t be easy to replace either; and the speed and zip that Fred Reed gave to the backfield will be hard to supply next season. If next year ' s squad can produce the spirit, the coordination, the speed and deception that characterized its two immediate predecessors, it should encounter a successful season. DONNELLY COOPER Front Row — Achtermann, Budd. Yockey, Mo- chel, Dikeman, Whitcomb, Huhn. S coijd Row — Bond. Strauss. Love, Perkins, Mills, Walker, Jenks, Yost, Blake. Third Row — Gavin, Donahue, Pi.xton. McLaugh ' lin. Bradley. Btedin. Thomas

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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

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%3 Front Rou.— Jay Delaplaine, Stetson, Dewald, Thatcher, McNeill, Buckman, Alex- ander, Blanshard. Back Rou;— Dunn, Luckie, Foust, Robinson, Dict2, Shaw, Mustin, Cope, Erdman. SOCCER Evidently tiring of college life, old Jupe Pluvius cut all but one of his classes this year, graciously permitting the Dunnmen to wage all but one game of a fair soccer season on dry land. But, although the Garnet won only five while losing three and tying one, they finished runners- up m the Middle Atlantic States League and beat Cornell, Penn, and, in the feature of the season, Haverford. With only four lettermen returning. Coach Dunn whipped up the rest of the team from last year ' s jayvees and freshmen, and turned them loose on the Lehigh Engineers in the first game of the season. When the dust had cleared, Swarthmore had four goals and Lehigh a da?ed team and a horsecollar. Carrying on without the aid of Captain Al Thatcher, who was on the sidelines with a dislocated shoulder, the Garnet outmaneuvered the Engineers throughout the game. Ed McNeill scored in the first quarter, after repeated attempts at the goal had barely failed. The Dunnmen staved off the Lehigh offensive during the second quarter and tallied twice in the third period and again in the last on a spectacular blitzkrieg from deep in Garnet territory. But the next Saturday the Temple Owls upset our hopefuls with two lightning dashes in the first and. second periods. Foust averted a white-washing by spectacularly heading the ball into the nets on a pass from Dewald. The deciding counter was made early in the second period; a Temple offensive forced the Garnet back into its own territory and Lorenc drilled a low boot from twenty yards out into the goal. Recovering from this defeat, the Little Quakers handed Penn a sharp setback 2-L In the first period Shaw scored on a corner kick from Delaplaine, and in the last stanza, Delaplaine slipped a short shot past Peak to provide the margin of victory. The Garnet lacked teamwork at times, but made up in spirit what was lacking in skill and smashed back repeated attacks on Bill Dietz ' s goal. Bill had a busy day, but handled his job commendably. A last minute Penn drive failed when Father Time donned a Garnet uniform; the whistle blew just before a penalty kick that might have knotted the score. Li the Princeton game Old Jupe finally came to class. All scoring was confined to the last period and the Tigers