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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was immediately after the Crimson first period attack let up that Dartmouth scored its first goal. At 4:35 of the second period, Indian inside right Bill Leshure took a pass and beat Crimson goalie Whoop Batchelder from 25 feet out.
Although Coach Poly Guyda moved two of his halfbacks up to forward posts, neither Dana Getchell nor Jim Callahan was able to provide the hoped-for scoring punch.
For the next seventeen games the Hanoverites would have done well to have scheduled Boston Latin instead of Harvard. Until 1901 the Indians stayed camped at their end of the field, allowing the Crimson to roll up 533 points against their own 18.
Though this record is warped by the number of victories Harvard won when football was a family affair with Yale and Princeton, the Indians saved their scalps by staying up in the hills from 1912 to 1922. This was the Golden Age of Crimson football when Percy Haughton's machine...
Harvard has run up the highest score in the series, a 74-0 rout of the Indians in 1888. The CRIMSON commented that "the Dartmouth men played a curious game." Forty-one years later Dartmouth, led by All-American Al Marsters, retaliated by trouncing the Cantabs 34-7.