1925-26 ATHLETIC SEASON ONE OF MANY SUCCESSES

It is not necessary to review in detail for Dartmouth men the seasons of the various athletic teams of the College during the past academic year. It is necessary only to say that in no branches of sport did Dartmouth teams disappoint their followers with the single possible exception of track. Even in this field most Dartmouth men who realize the conditions imposed by an unusually late northern New England spring will refuse to see grounds for great disappointment. What they will feel is not disappointment so much as regrets that throughout the entire track season the weather in Hanover was such that Coach Harry Hillman's men were never able to do justice either to themselves or to his well-known coaching ability.

Of the 1925 football team it is superfluous to speak. This greatest of all Dartmouth football teams gladdened the hearts of Dartmouth men from Baffin's Bay to Baluchistan, reaching a height of perfection in the game against Cornell which spectators will never forget.

In basketball Dartmouth did well with material that was below what has come to be expected as normal in Hanover. Of all the teams in the league Columbia alone showed the usual strength. Dartmouth's position in second place, after Columbia, reveals the Green quintet to have been the best of five rather mediocre league teams.

The year in hockey was almost as outstanding as in football. The Dartmouth ice team lost games to Toronto and to Harvard but was unquestionably one of the strongest sextets that has ever fared forth from Hanover. The Toronto team outclassed it but among American colleges the Green outfit was generally conceded the palm, Harvard's victory net having been of such a clean-cut variety as either of the teams would have wished.

Coach Sid Hazelton's swimming team in its last season as a member of the New England League again captured the New England championship and proved strong enough to provide sturdy opposition for the continually powerful Yale group.

The baseball team also proved itself to be up to Dartmouth standards. During what the Dartmouth is wont to call "an in-and-out season" games were lost to Harvard (for the first time in 10 years), Princeton, and Yale, but to offset these defeats victories were registered over Holy Cross, and Columbia and twice over Pennsylvania and Cornell. At the close of the season Dartmouth was tied with Columbia for first place in the league comprising Dartmouth, Columbia, Pennsylvania and Cornell.

In other sports Dartmouth teams fared fully as well. The soccer team lost but one game and tied one game; the gymnasium team took second place in the Intercollegiate meet and was but point behind the Princeton team which won the championship; the golf team lost but two of its eight matches; and

Dartmouth tennis players were runners up in the doubles matches of the New England Intercollegiate Championship contests. The following tabulations provided for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE by the office of the Athletic Council give a complete record of Dartmouth athletic competitions during the past year.