BASKETBALL

Dartmouth finished last in the Intercollegiate Basketball League with a record of one victory over Columbia and nine defeats, but Captain Browne ranked high among the individual stars, standing fourth in the league in total points scored. The last month of the season marked a noticeable improvement in team play, following a thorough shakeup of the squad by Coach Zahn. Four victories were added to the lone win previously chalked up. and Princeton, represented by one of the strongest fives in - the East, was driven to a close score in the final contest. H. N. Browne '21 was re-elected captain for next year at the close of the season.

Springfield Y. M. C. A. College took a fall out of the Green by a score of 32-25 at Springfield February 19. The next night, in a game featured by the close guarding of both teams Massachusetts "Aggies" jumped into the lead in the last minute of play and won, 8-6. On the home court February 21, Dartmouth took its only league game of the season, registering a surprising reversal of form and coming back strong after Columbia had started off to an apparently easy win. Yuill and Akey turned in a number of spectacular shots, which with Captain Browne's 13 points were mainly responsible for the 27-22 victory.

New Hampshire State offered little opposition February 24 and went down to a 22-12 defeat. In its final trip of the season the Green quintet proved unable to cope with the stronger league fives and fell successively before Yale, Pennsylvania, and Columbia. Yale, led by the star forward, Van Slyck, exactly doubled the varsity's hard-earned 21 points. Pennsylvania proved even faster and hung up its sixteenth consecutive victory by a 45-10 score. In return for the earlier defeat administered at Hanover, Columbia outpointed the Green in a hard-fought battle and won, 28-25.

At home on March 10 Dartmouth swamped Norwich, 50-17, giving' Coach Zahn a chance to send the second team on the floor before the close of- the contest. Brown was another easy victim March 16, figuring on the short end of a 33-12 score, while Princeton had difficulty in pulling the final contest out of the fire, 35-31, on March 19.