BASKETBALL

With an anti-climax as unexpected as it was disastrous, the College basketball team concluded its season March 8 with a defeat at the hands of Williams. After winning twelve consecutive games, including victories by decisive scores over Pennsylvania, Yale, Harvard, and all the New England league teams, the weakened Dartmouth team on its final trip, lost four out of five games and the New England championship. Sickness and consequent lack of practice had so undermined the potential strength of the team that its failure to win these games was excusable; in fact the work, done under the most adverse circumstances, was highly creditable..

The scores of the last five games were as follows: March 4, in Cambridge, Harvard 18, Dartmouth 17; March 5, in Boston, Dartmouth 22, Technology 16; March 6, in Providence, Brown 22, Dartmouth 21; March 7, in Medford, Tufts 23, Dartmouth 16; March 8, at Williams-town, Williams 10, Dartmouth 6. During the season Dartmouth scored 600.points to its opponents' 235.

The final standing in the New England league was. as follows: Williams won 5, lost 1, per cent 833; Dartmouth, 4, 2, 667 ; Brown, 2, 4, 333; Wesleyan, 1, 5, 167.

At a meeting of the basketball team on Saturday, March 23, Benjamin Lang '09 was unanimously elected captain for the year 1907-'08. Lang has played on the football and basketball teams ever since entering College, and last year was chosen All New England basketball center. He prepared for Dartmouth at Cushing Academy.