BASKETBALL

On March 2, Dartmouth closed one of the most successful seasons in its basketball career, by defeating Cornell 18-10. On the same evening Columbia defeated the Quakers by the narrow margin of a single goal in Philadelphia. In the final Dartmouth-Cornell game both teams were nervous at the start and it was not until the fifteenth minute of play that a single point was scored by either side. Sisson as usual scored the greatest number of points for Dartmouth. The game was featured by excellent guarding, Captain Mensel excelling in this department. A summary of the entire season shows that Dartmouth holds the lead in the league in total number of points scored, with 253; Pennsylvania being second with 226. Columbia has shown the greatest strength in guarding. Sisson has the high individual record of "the league in scoring, his total being 129. His nearest competitor for the honor was Benson of Columbia with 118. The final standing of the league follows :

Won Lost P.C. Columbia 8 2 .800 Dartmouth 7 3 .700 Pennsylvania 6 4 .600 Cornell 5 5 .500 Princeton 3 7 .300 Yale 1 9 .100

The freshmen wound up their regular season gloriously, defeating M.I.T. second team 50-13, in a very one-sided contest, and two nights later getting their revenge on Cushing Academy for their former victory over the Dartmouth freshies. The result of this return game with Cushing was 31-14 in favor of the Green. The freshmen were not so successful when it came to tackling the sophomores of their own College, for the 1914 men were the winners twice, by the scores of of 39-12 and 36-20. On these occasions the great center of attraction was the famous umpire and humorist, Joe Killourhy. The following is the freshman-sophomore line-up:

1914 1915 Hogsett, lg, Winship Brownell, lf rg, Martin Young, c; Bickford Grant, rg lf, Pelletier Borden, lg rf, Crawford