LACROSSE IS INSTITUTED AS RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY

There are strong prospects that Dartmouth will include lacrosse as one of its official sports next year. The game has been instituted as a recreational activity already.

Influenced by the signatures of more than 100 men on the petition affirming interest in the sport and pledging participation, the Recreational Council decided to give the game a trial as one of the activities under its control. Many of the signers of this petition were members of the various other athletic teams of the college.

Lacrosse is to be conducted under the direction and coaching of T. J. Dent, present soccer coach, who has played the game before and who voluntarily assumed leadership of the group seeking its establishment at Dartmouth when he was approached several weeks ago.

Instruction in the game and actual playing began and is being held in the baseball cage in the gymnasium evenings until such time as the weather will permit outdoor practice. Although the recreational department is not yet supplying lacrosse sticks for those who intend to participate in the sport, Coach Dent has secured some from other sources. Mr. J. M. Piane '14, of the Co-op presented half a dozen and A. G. Spalding & Son contributed six more.

All seniors and juniors have been urged to report as well as freshmen and sophomores desiring recreational credit, for although lacrosse is at present only a recreational activity plans are being made to organize a team and play several unofficial games this season, especially one during the week-end of spring house-party.

Coach Dent, when asked about the facility with which a lacrosse team at Dartmouth could be handled, referred to a comment which appeared in the Boston Globe last week, as follows:

"If Dartmouth takes up lacrosse, as seems probable, the nearness of Hanover to Canada should make it possible to arrange fine schedules against a class of teams which should bring a Green team along fast in the knowledge of the game. If the game does catch on, Dartmouth football coaches will be wise to recognize it as an off-season game in the spring for football men. It promotes speed, endurance and the ability to dodge."

Some of the leading colleges with which Dartmouth will be able to secure games are Harvard, Yale, Syracuse, Princeton, West Point, Annapolis, and, in Canada, McGill and Toronto..

The student to whom the most credit is due for the final establishment of lacrosse at Dartmouth, is, according to Coach Dent, H. Rubin '27. He played lacrosse at Erasmus Hall before coming to Dartmouth and was picked for the United States All-Scholastic team.