THE SEASON

After a season which opened inauspiciously with a defeat, the Dartmouth basketball team by its lasting qualities developed into an aggregation of which the College may well be proud and which was undoubtedly in the first rank of the New England colleges. All season the fight has been an uphill one, with the men improving steadily, with the result that a record thought impossible at the opening of the year was achieved.

In all the Dartmouth quintet was successful in twelve out of the seventeen games on the schedule. Among the teams which Dartmouth defeated were: Harvard, Wesleyan, Syracuse, M. I. T., Hoi}' Cross, New Hampshire State, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Springfield Training School, and Worcester Polytechnic.

The only team to prove bevond a doubt its superiority to the Green was Williams, the winners of the New. England championship. Williams handily defeated Dartmouth first in Hanover 25 to 16, before the largest basketball crowd of the year, and again at Williamstown 38 to 15. Dartmouth lost to Yale in Boston by a single basket in a game evenly contested to the last minute. M. I. T. won the opening game in Hanover, 26 to 22, but when later the Dartmouth team had struck its stride Tech fell in their own gymnasium with the score 28 to 17 in favor of Dartmouth. Dartmouth lost to Wesleyan at Wesleyan, 26 to 15, but five days later turned the tables in Hanover and won 25 to 7.

Of the men on the team who played through, Captain-elect Brady was the star and was the central figure of every attack. Captain Dingle was unable to get into the game until mid-season, but when he got in shape his center work was a feature. Mullen at guard, the third veteran, at all times put up a consistently effective defense. Hedges and Avery, who did their first work as regulars this year, showed the greatest improvement as the season advanced, Hedges in particular developing a splendid eye for the basket. Ryan, regular substitute at guard, was always reliable, and next year should make a valuable man. Wiley, who was unable to be fitted in until the last two games, gave a splendid account of himself.

The season's record:

Dartmouth 22—M. I. T. 26

Dartmouth 49—Worcester Poly. 15

Dartmouth 50—Springfield T. S.

Dartmouth 22— N. H. State 8

Dartmouth II -Yale 13

Dartmouth 40—Mass. A. C. II

Dartmouth 16—Williams 25

Dartmouth 27—Holy Cross 17

Dartmouth 36—Syracuse II

Dartmouth 27- Holy Cross 23

Dartmouth 28—M. I. T. 17

Dartmouth 31 —Harvard 13

Dartmouth 15—Wesleyan 26

Dartmouth 25—Wesleyan 7

Dartmouth 36—Alumni 27

Dartmouth 15—Williams 38

Dartmouth 25—Syracuse 22