Dunster-Mather Fails to Score In Harvard-Yale House Title Bout

It was vintage New Haven weather yesterday--cold, cloudy, drizzling and dismal--as the Houses and Colleges did battle in The Other Games. The Crimson took most of the contests on the muddy fields around the Yale Bowl. But in the big one, the unofficial world football championship. Calhoun-Berkeley trouneed Dunster-Mather 17-0.

The title game wasn't even close. Dunster-Mather's offense was shut down and usually stayed in its own half of the field. The Calhoun-Berkeley attack included a 15-yard touchdown run, a 15-yard touchdown pass and a 27-yard field goal in between.

"They put it down our throats--they were a great team." Dunster-Mather quarterback Keith Douds said, adding, "It was an excellent season for us, but the loss takes something away. This was definitely anti-climactic."

Except for the Eliot squad, which lost to Pierson-Davenport, 24-12, the other Crimson squads all downed their Eli opponents. True to form, Kirkland House took a hard-fought 14-6 decision from Jonathan Edwards-Branford. After falling behind 6-0 on a touchdown, 30 seconds before halftime, K-House roared back when fullback John Gilles ran for a touchdown in the third quarter. The clincher was a 60-yd, return of an interception by Howard Needle, which saved the day for Publoball.

Meanwhile, South House shut out a Timothy Dwight-Silliman 14-0, while Winthrop coasted past Trumbull-Saybrook, 13-0. 'Throp signal caller Charlie Slack helped put the game out of reach with a 1-yd, quarterback sneak and 20-yd, pass to Tony Hatch, leaving his position while members of the defense tried out the backfield for themselves. Just to make it clear that the game was for fun, the team did a post-game workout of intensive mudsliding.

Last year's champs from Q-World redeemed themselves after last week's House Final loss, destroying Ezra Stiles-Morse, 20-0. Two bombs from Terry Wilson to Steven Nicholas helped set up two TDs, while a long run by Nicholas accounted for the third. As Q-manoid Art (AOK) O'Keefe saw it, it was never a contest: "We romped and stomped."

The Bulldogs took the men's and women's soccer titles as well. Kirkland's women's team fell to Silliman, 3-2, while Currier's men dropped a 1-0 decision to Timothy Dwight.

Across the sprawling complex of fields by the Bowl, the Crimson and the Elis fought it out in the tradition of their noble rivalry. But one eight-year-old bystander saw the whole affair more simply: "I'm just rooting for the guys in red."