TO PRESERVE BASKETBALL

Various solutions have been offered from time to time for the problem of non-attendance at the basketball games during the winter, but so far none has met with entire approval. The latest plan offered by the Athletic Council is a season ticket covering all varsity and freshman basketball games, to be sold for $3.

Last year, it is stated by the management, basketball was a heavy loss financially, due to the small attendance at all but the important varsity games. The freshman games were notably a failure, not through any fault of the team, but through undergraduate lack of interest. The varsity season last year was disastrous from the standpoint of games won, and this, too, the management believes was largely due to poor attendance.

In a signed statement, Coach P. W Loudon '14 said:

"Concerning the proposed plan for a season ticket scheme to be used in basketball I wish to say that I am heartily in favor of it.

"Not only did the varsity squad of last year and the year before miss the support of any decent percentage of the student body, but" the freshman team does every year, and whether Dartmouth men ever stop to consider it or not, this vitally affects the College at large, because preparatory school boys who come up here to contest with our first year teams form their opinion of the College itself by what they see here. When only 30 or 40 men appear to support a class team in a game, they naturally do not feel that the spirit of such a college could attract them to go there.

"On this point alone, then, I would say most certainly that a season ticket scheme would be a great benefit, since purchasers of a ticket will attend all games that it is good for, nine times ont of ten, and the freshmen as well as the varsity will get the much-needed and long-neglected support.

"This year of all years the varsity team needs the united support of all. Basketball as a sport is way down, and about to be dropped unless a break comes. Realizing this, the Athletic Council by improving the playing floor, lights, etc., as well as by permitting for the first time a Christmas training trip, is doing all in its power to aid the management, coaches, and players toward a successful season."

The schedule for the varsity team includes 23 games, opening with a Christmas trip to New York. The first home game will be played with Columbia in the league series, January 15., The schedule in full follows :

Dec. 29—Manhattan College at New York. Dec. 30—Crescent A. C. at Brooklyn. Dec. 31—Commonwealth A. C. at So. Orange.

Jan. 1—C. C. N. Y. at New York. Jan. 3—Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute at Brooklyn. Jan. 4—St. John's College at Brooklyn. Tan. 2—Seton Hall College at Newark.

Jan. 6—Crescent A. C. at Brooklyn. Jan. 7—Columbia at New York. Jan. 8—Amherst8—Amherst at Amherst. Jan. 15—Columbia at Hanover. Jan. 18—Colgate at Hanover. Jan. 22—Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.

Feb. 4—Pennsylvania at Hanover. Feb. 8—Yale8—Yale at New Haven, 4 p. m. Feb. 9—Wesleyan at Middletown. Feb. 12—Yale at Hanover. Feb. 15—Wesleyan at Hanover. Feb. 19—Princeton at Hanover. Feb. 21—Cornell at Hanover. Feb. 26—Princeton at Princeton. Feb. 28—Syracuse at Syracuse. Feb. 29—Cornell at Ithaca.