BASKETBALL

Dartmouth 20 Columbia 18

The second of the season's encounters with Columbia was fast and well played throughout, neither team having an advantage during the first half of the game which ended with the score at 10 all. During the second half of the game the Hanover team jumped into a lead which thereafter swayed back and forth. Coach Deering, of Columbia, tried many combinations to secure permanent possession of the advantage but the disorganization which seems to have crept into all the league teams this year acted as a handicap Columbia was unable to overcome. Dooley caged the winning basket for Dartmouth a few seconds before the final whistle. For Dartmouth Edwards led the scoring attack with eight points, Dooley five, Tully four, and Friedmann, Shaneman, and Goas one each. Strom featured the game for Columbia, scoring seven of his team's points.

Pennsylvania 20—Dartmouth 18

The same Pennsylvania team which Dartmouth had overcome handily in Hanover provided much sterner opposition in Philadelphia when Dartmouth was defeated 20 to 18. This defeat practically eliminated Dartmouth from the championship race. The game was an even affair all the way with neither team having any decided advantage at any time. The first half ended with the score at nine to nine. Dartmouth took the lead for the first time half way through the second half with the score at 16 to IS. A Pennsylvania rally which netted two field goals then put the Philadelphia team in front by a 19 to 16 score and another tally was added from their foul line. Dartmouth added one more goal from scrimmage before the final whistle.

Dartmouth 36 Princeton 34

By general agreement the most exciting basketball game staged in Hanover in the past decade and the most thrilling athletic event with the single exception of the Colgate football game in 1919 was the court contest between Dartmouth and Princeton played in Alumni Gymnasium March 1 and won by Dartmouth by a score of 36 to 34.

Dartmouth appeared doomed to an ignominious defeat early in the game when the Princeton five displayed a smooth passing game and a rapid attack which seemed completely to bewilder the Hanover players and against which the home team seemed unable to start proceedings on its own account. Within a few minutes of the opening whistle Princeton had achieved a 13 to 6 advantage in the scoring. The Dartmouth attack, centering around Dooley, Edwards, and Goas, then brought about a rapid mounting of the lower portion of the score, three field goals in quick succession cutting the Princeton lead to a single point. Time out was taken to enable the players of both teams to breathe for a moment or two uninterruptedly and battle was again joined. At half time the teams left the floor with the score at 17 to IS in Dartmouth's favor.

If the first half of the game had been fast the latter half was furious. Within its twenty minutes was concentrated more speed, agility, determination, and effort than one, at least, of the ten year .veterans in Hanover has seen in any similar period of time. During this portion of the. contest the lead changed hands between Dartmouth and Princeton no fewer than eight times and never by more than one or two point margins. Various alumni, who, disappointed at the Harvard-Dartmouth game in Cambridge have written to The Dartmouth something to the effect that basketball is not a sufficiently strenuous game should have witnessed this affair. At the close, with less than 100 seconds to play the score stood at 34 to 34 when Edwards sunk a free throw and Friedman followed with another.

For Dartmouth Dooley who shot four baskets from the floor and four out of five from the free throw mark led the scoring with a point total of 12. Edwards netted 11 points, seven successful free throws in 10 attempts and two baskets from scrimmage; Friedmann scored seven points and Goas six. For Princeton Hynson caged six baskets from the floor and a total of 14 points, Klaess scored nine points, Cleaves six, Anderson three, and Bergen two.

By decision of the executive board of the League acting on Princeton's protest of the above game the game was ordered thrown out of the records and to be replayed. For blocking a Princeton player from spoiling a successful Dartmouth shot at the basket a personal foul was called on Goas, of Dartmouth and two free shots awarded to Princeton. The basket scored for Dartmouth when Goas blocked the Princeton interferer was allowed by the referee to count in direct violation of the rules, according to Princeton's protest.

Harvard 38 Dartmouth 16

Harvard took ample revenge for the defeat suffered earlier in the season at Hanover when at Cambridge, March 5, the Crimson team held Captain Friedmann's men to a single field goal during the first half of the game and assumed a lead which the Hanover five was never able to trim. For Harvard Captain Gordon, scoring a total of 11 points, was the individual star of the contest. Each member of the Harvard team scored at least five points. For Dartmouth Goas in addition to caging a field goal netted four free throws for a total of six points. The game was considerably halted and marred by the total of 44 fouls chalked up against the 16 players involved. The overwhelming score of this contest gave Hanover the first indication that there were grounds for the rumors that Dartmouth in company with other league teams was sufferfrom a break up of morale due to dissension within the ranks.

Dartmouth 23 Yale 22

A weird and fantastic exhibition of basketball played in Alumni Gymnasium March 8 resulted in a Dartmouth victory over Yale by a score of 23 to 22. Thirteen minutes of the first half of the game had elapsed before either team caged a basket from the floor, although the Dartmouth team, during this time, had had many opportunities and taken many shots at the basket. Yale was leading by virtue of having netted six free attempts to one which Dartmouth men had been able to tally. Captain Friedmann then opened a slight rally for Dartmouth by breaking through the Yale defense twice in rapid succession to cage baskets from difficult angles. A basket by Captain Haas, of Yale, and another by Edwards, of Dartmouth brought the score to a 9 to 7 basis. A free throw by Dooley and a field goal by Goas then put Dartmouth into a lead which Stevens and Pite, with fast shots from the floor quickly eradicated. The half closed with Yale leading 13 to 10.

Haas, of Yale, opened the seccond period with a pretty shot which gave his team a five point lead, but this was quickly tied by means of a free throw and a basket by Goas and a successful shot from the floor by Edwards. Pite, of Yale, again put the New Haven team in the lead with a goal from the free throw line, and Dooley netted a shot from scrimmage returning the advantage to Dartmouth. A basket by Edwards, two by Dooley, and another successful free throw by Goas gave the Green team what looked like a safe lead until Pite and Suisman figured in a scoring attack bringing the totals to 21 and 20. Edwards scored another basket for Dartmouth and Pite added two free shots to Yale's total to make up the final score.

Loose playing on the part of both teams was the cause of much amusement and consternation in the stands. The Dartmouth play, in particular, evidenced the lack of co-ordination attested by the score of the second encounter with Harvard. Edwards, who has been one of the Green team's most consistent scorers during the season, was credited with three baskets from the floor but was successful in only one out of nine attempts from the foul line. Dooley and Goas each scored six points and Captain Friedmann four. For Yale the phenomenal Pite piled up ten points in 11 free throws and one basket from the floor for a total of 12 points. In keeping the Yale star to a single field goal Goas displayed the best guarding game seen in Hanover this year. Haas and Suisman, of Yale each scored four points, and Stevens two.

Princeton 40 Dartmouth 16

Th score of the Princeton-Dartmouth game played at Princeton March 12 served to confirm all campus rumors as to the condition of the team's morale. No gruesome details of the catastrophe were forthcoming and in the face of the score it would seem as though details were unnecessary.

Princeton 38 Dartmouth 17

Playing off the protested Princeton game, on March 1 in New Haven March 18 Dartmouth suffered another disastrous defeat by an overwhelming score. For Princeton Captain Klaess who scored 10 points was the individual star of the game while for Dartmouth Captain Friedmann starred scoring eight points. As a result of this encounter which closed the league season, Dartmouth took fourth place in the league standing, Cornell having won the championship and Princeton and Columbia tied for second place. Pennsylvania and Yale follow Dartmouth in the percentage table.

It is fitting that any gloom engendered by the slump of the Dartmouth basketball team during the latter part of its season be in a measure dispelled and alumni may find consolation as well as enjoyment, as did the undergraduate body, in the achievement of the Hanover High School basketball team. The schoolboys covered themselves with glory in winning the Connecticut Valley championship handily and then annexed the Grafton County title after which they went to Durham to compete in the state championship series. Meeting the toughest kind of opposition and playing three games within twenty four hours the Hanover boys won their way into the finals and were beaten only by Manchester. In their progress to the position of runner up to the city school the Hanover boys disposed of several academy teams and of the Portsmouth team which won the state championship last year. The victorious Manchester team was coached by H. B. McDonough '18.