Well, our English Department is still better'n their English Department.

Any comparison between the Harvard and Dartmouth football teams however, had better be postponed until Saturday's game is forgotten. And Saturday's game is going to take a lot of forgetting.

The score at the end was Dartmouth 43, Harvard 0, after the Indians ran up a 35-0 lead at halftime. Dartmouth got 22 first downs to 6 for Harvard. The Indians intercepted three passes, blocked three punts, got 256 yards rushing, and 101 (plus three touchdowns) passing.

One of Those Days

It was the biggest score a Dartmouth team had ever rolled up on Harvard, but was it necessarily disastrous for a Crimson team that was losing its first Ivy League game after two victories.

"Nah," said Dartmouth's coach Bob Blackman in the locker room after the game. "You have your ups and downs; today we were way up and Harvard was way down.

"Two weeks ago we lost to Princeton by 30 points. We weren't that bad, but the score made Princeton look like a super team. But they aren't that good: I wouldn't be surprised if Harvard beat Princeton."

Yovicsin, though obviously stunned by the game, took a fatalistic attitude: "Sure, it was tough, but we've been through worse before, and I'd be kidding if I said this would be the last bad one.

"But we're no worse off in the Ivy League standings than we would be if we'd lost by a point. Look, we're in ex- actly the same position in the league as Dartmouth. Two weeks ago they were on their backs, and now they're in the thick of the race. If we come back, we'll be in the thick of it, And we'll come back."

Things started badly when Dartmouth marched 60 yards in seven plays for a touchdown the first time they got their hands on the ball. A 21-yard run by Captain Jack McLean set it up, and when the Crimson defense stiffened, quarterback Bruce Gottschall fired a third-down pass to Tom Clarke, cutting over the middle for the score.

Blitzed

But the height of sheer horror wasn't reached until a nightmarish second quarter when Dartmouth scored 28 points in 11 minutes.

The entire period was played within the Harvard 35-yard line. On the first play Jerry Mechling punted the ball into the unobtrusive back of Dartmouth guard Tony Yezer. Dartmouth took over on the Crimson 24 and Bob O'Brien and Mike Urbanic took it over in seven carries, halfback O'Brien getting the touchdown on a four-yard off-tackle jaunt.

John McCluskey got off Harvard's longest run of the period--five yards--but the Crimson had to punt. This time Mechling had to leap for John O'Brien's high center and Bill Calhoun blocked the kick.

Dartmouth took over at the Harvard 27. McLean and O'Brien took it to the 15 in four carries and Gottschall, on the third down, passed to Steve Bryan, who walked into the end zone untouched.