BASKETBALL

The basketball season opened with a victory over Columbia at the Alumni Gymnasium on December 16. It was Dartmouth's first game as a member of the Intercollegiate League, heretofore up of Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale. To secure a good showing in the league, the Athletic Council has given the basketball coach an assistant.

They have appointed Francis A. Brady 10, captain of the 1909-10 team, head coach. He is at Harvard Law School and so will be able to come to Hanover only for week ends. John A. Mullen '11, who led the team last year, is assistant and resident coach. The coaches have experienced some difficulty in accustoming their squad to the new rule forbidding the two-handed dribble; but Captain Mensel and his men are working hard in practice, and the College expects its team to rank high at the season's close.

Since Columbia was champion of the league last year and Coach Fisher has a reputation for turning out winning teams, no small satisfaction was taken in a 30-18 score against the Blue and White. The first half was slow. In the second the visitors did not score a jingle goal from the floor. Sisson was Responsible for twenty-two of the home team's thirty points. He shot seven baskets from the floor and caged eight fouls in eleven tries.

The lineup: Gibson, If ; Sisson, rf; Margeson, c; Mensel(Capt.), lg; Snow, rg.

The basketball schedule for 1912:

Jan. 6. *Yale at Hanover. " 10. *Princeton at Princeton. " 11. Wesleyan at Middletown. " 13. *Cornell at Ithaca. " 20. Wesleyan at Hanover.

Feb." 3. *Pennsylvania at Hanover. " 7. *Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. " 8. *Columbia at New York. " 13. Williams at Hanover. " 19. *Princeton at New York. " 20. *Yale at New Haven. " 24. Williams at Williamstown. Mar. 2. *Cornell at Hanover. *League game.