BASKETBALL

Dartmouth 32 — Columbia 29

With a whirlwind finish which could not be denied, Dartmouth won its first league game from Columbia 32-29 in New York on February 23. With 26 of the 32 points scored by Dartmouth to his credit Captain Cullen may be held personally responsible for the victory.

Dartmouth 19 - Penn 17

When T. H. Cullen '23, forward and captain of the basketball five, received a serious injury on the head in the game with Pennsylvania at Hanover on February 24 it was thought for a time that he would not pull through. His skull was fractured but he is now on the road to recovery.

In a slow game marred not only by the injury to Cullen but by unnecessarily close guarding and rough play Dartmouth succeeded in eking out a 19-17 win of the Quakers. After piling up what seemed to be a comfortable lead in the first half Dartmouth watched Pennsylvania cut it down to nothing in the first part of the second half.

Cullen's accident occurred in the middle of the second half. In diving head first to recover the ball, after having dropped it, Cullen collided with Miller and snapped his head back onto the floor with tremendous force.

The injury to the captain acted as a stimulus to the Green and they managed to steam ahead for the winning two points.

Dartmouth 24 — Princeton 21

Fighting for Captain Cullen who lay dangerously sick in the Mary Hitchcock Hospital the. Dartmouth basketball five defeated the rugged Princeton team in one of the roughest and at the same time one of the highest class basketball games ever played in the Alumni Gymnasium. This constituted the first Dartmouth victory over Princeton in Hanover since Coach Zahn assumed charge of basketball here.

Some fans said it was the perfect foul throwing of Goas at a time when points were desperately needed that won the game; others claim it was the sensational basket shooting of Goldstein, or the terrific guarding of Sailer. Rather it was a team of five men welded together into a fighting unit which resisted the onslaughts of an aroused Tiger.

Piling up a lead of 13-4 in the first half Dartmouth seemed in a fair way to snatch the game, but Princeton countered in the opening of the second half with a powerful drive which raised the score to 13-9. Dartmouth drove hard and brought the score to 22-12, whereupon Princeton made its final surge for victory and came within two points of the Green. To keep up the rhythm Dartmouth started a drive which resulted in two more points before the whistle blew.

Yale 26—Dartmouth 22

Tired with the super effort of the Princeton game of the night before, Coach Zahn's five was unable to overcome the 10-point lead which Yale accumulated in the first half and had to yield to the league champions, to the score 26-22. A drive in the final three minutes when the Eli five was nine points ahead, fell short of catching them by only a few points.

Pite lead the offensive for Yale and caged six field goals. Friedman and Goldstein put in several sensational baskets in the Green's final drive, but were offset by the equally sensational goal tossing of Pite.

Close guarding marked the first half, but in the second half both teams loosened up on the defense and speeded up on the offense. Dartmouth outscored Yale in the second half 1812, but Yale's first half advantage proved too great to be overcome.

Dartmouth 28—Harvard 25

Although handicapped severely by the loss of Captain Cullen and Sailer, regular guard who was on the sick list temporarily, Dartmouth was able to muster sufficient strength to beat the Harvard basketball team 28-25 in an overtime game. The game was played in Cambridge on March 8 and turned out to be a thriller.

Meeting the Crimson on their own home grounds Dartmouth was unable to repeat the Carnival victory with such a wide margin of safety.

Penn 33 - Dartmouth 23

With scoring power cut almost in two by the loss of Captain Cullen and with the defense weakened by illness of Sailer, Dartmouth lost to Pennsylvania in Philadelphia 33-23 on March 10, thus descending to the cellar of the league, to occupy the same with Pennsylvania. Spectators say that this contest reminded them of the disastrous Columbia contest in Hanover in the earlier part of the season, on account of the ineffectiveness of the efforts of the Green five.

Penn lead from the start and was never headed, the first half ending with the Quakers holding- a 16-11 advantage. Although Dartmouth spurted several times they never seemed able to gather their forces for the surge at the end of the game.

Cornell 24 — Dartmouth 21

Luther, the lanky Cornell center and high scorer in the League, seemed to act as nemesis for Dartmouth in the final league basketball contest in Ithaca on March 19. for every time the Green started a rally to cut down the lead of the Red and White, Luther would drop in a couple of baskets from impossible positions and thus neutralize Dartmouth's frantic efforts. Cornell won 24-21, pushing Dartmouth down into the cellar, but Princeton walloped Penn the same night, so that the Green is not alone in her humble position.

The contest, though not marred by frequent fouling was slow throughout the opening period, gradually speeding up in the second half when Dartmouth began a vain drive to overtake the Ithacans. Goldstein and Moore scored practically all of Dartmouth's points. Goldstein particularly seemed more capable of locating the basket than he had been all season.