FRESHMAN BASKETBALL

The freshman basketball team opened its season in Hanover, December 16, by scoring an overwhelming victory over the five of Kimball Union Academy. Picken, appointed acting captain of the freshmen by Coach Zahn, was the individual star on the Dartmouth team, scoring six goals from the floor and exhibiting accurate passing ability and tireless defensive play. The score was 51 to 8.

Playing against the Freshmen of Connecticut Agricultural College the 1927 team won its second start of the season at Hanover, January 16, by a score of 27 to 16. The Dartmouth team's defense was impregnable during the first half of the game when the Connecticut team scored but one basket from the floor while the Dartmouth team gathered 11 points. Picken, who scored three field goals and one free throw, scored four field goals and a free throw, and Day, who scored two field goals and five free throws in five attempts, led the freshmen. Schofield was the outstanding player of the Connecticut team.

In New York, January 18, the freshmen defeated the Columbia Freshman team 33 to 29 m a closely contested game. Lorch, of Columbia, proved a stumbling block in the path of the Hanover team, scoring six baskets from the floor until Picken solved the problem of keeping him in check.