Gaudet, Defense Come Up Big in Dartmouth's 20-7 Football Victory

Nov. 13, 2004

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HANOVER, N.H. - Dartmouth freshman Chad Gaudet (Burlington, Mass.) rushed for a career-high 137 yards while the Big Green defense clamped down on Brown's running game in Dartmouth's first win of the season, 20-7, on Saturday during Senior Day at Memorial Field.

The Big Green (1-8, 1-5 Ivy) completes its season next Saturday at Princeton at 1 p.m. while Brown (5-4, 2-4 Ivy) hosts Columbia.

Gaudet notched his second 100-yard game of the season and picked up the most yards since senior Chris Little (El Paso, Texas) rushed for 137 against Columbia last fall. Gaudet also hit senior Aaron Brown (Dallas, Texas) with a 14-yard pass. Junior quarterback Charlie Rittgers (Lebanon, Ohio) completed 12 of 16 passes for 111 yards and a touchdown to senior Andrew Hall (Greene, Maine).

Dartmouth led 3-0 following junior Erik Hinterbichler's (Albuquerque, N.M.) 29-yard field goal with 35 seconds left in the first before the Big Green defense turned up the heat.

With Brown driving, senior Clayton Smith (Atlanta, Ga.) intercepted Brown sophomore Joe DiGiacomo at midfield midway through the second quarter.

Brown's next drive ended when Dartmouth sophomore linebacker Joe Gibalski (Tucson, Ariz.) knocked the ball from DiGiacomo at the Brown 12 yard line and senior defensive tackle Derham Cato (Charlotte, N.C.) recovered the fumble. Three plays later, Gaudet punched in his second career touchdown from seven yards out with 1:57 left in the first half to put the Big Green up, 10-0.

After Hinterbichler's 20-yard boot gave Dartmouth a 13-0 lead in the third, Rittgers found Hall early in the fourth for a 20-0 lead.

Brown avoided the shutout thanks to junior Nick Hartigan's one-yard plunge with 9:40 remaining.

In its second stellar defensive showing in as many weeks, Dartmouth held Brown to 54 yards on 31 carries while limiting Hartigan, the nation's fifth-leading rusher at 127.4 yards per game, to 65 yards on 15 carries. The Big Green moved into second in the Ivy in rush defense last week after holding Cornell to 16 yards on 40 carries.

DiGiacomo went 19 for 44 for 201 yards while using junior Jarrett Schreck as his main target. Schreck made 11 receptions for 140 yards.

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