Indians Lay Claim to Ivy Title

Dartmouth did everything to Yale Saturday in New Haven that it did to Harvard the previous week except score points, and still the Big Green emerged with a seemingly irrefutable claim to the Ivy League title.

By virtue of its sixth consecutive victory, a 10-0 shutout of the Bulldogs, Dartmouth has but three games separating it from an undefeated season. In view of the remaining opponents-Columbia, Cornell and Penn-a 9-0 record is a near-certainty.

Yale was also unbeaten coming into last Saturday's meeting with the Indians, but Dartmouth soon dispelled any illusions of equality by rolling up 480 yeards total offense. Although Dartmouth did not score until three minutes before the half, five times they failed to tally from inside the Yale 18-yard line.

The absence of placekicker Wayne Pirmann, who was en route from a soccer match in Hanover, forced the Indians to run the ball on four occasions in the first half when they normally would have attempted field goals. Pirmann drilled a 30-yard field goal shorty after his arrival in the third quarter to complete Dartmouth's scoring.

Elsewhere

Elsewhere in the Ivies, Brown displayed a mighty temper but a less formidable defense as Princeton demolished them, 45-14, to move into a second-place tie with Yale.

The Bruins lost their biggest offensive threat when halfback Gary Bonner was ejected from the game along with Princeton co-captain and linebacker Dennis Burn late in the first quarter. Bonner had just scored on a 20-yard run to give Brown a short-lived, 7-0 lead.

In a battle for third place, Cornell came back to defeat Columbia, 31-20, in New York as halfback Ed Marinaro upheld the claim that he runs well only against weaker opponents.

Marinaro scored three touchdowns and rushed 127 yards on 32 carries, but teammate Rick Furbush was more impressive as he connected on 11 of 18 passes for 151 yards and three touchdowns and ran 13 times for another 126 yards.

Marinato's performance keeps him atop the nation's leading rushers with 12 touchdowns and 937 yards in six games.