A Promising Winter-Sports Team
WITH each successive winter, Dartmouth's reputation as a "Winter Sports College" increases by leaps and bounds; while each season sees an increase in the popularity of Winter Carnival. Overshadowed, perhaps, by these two phases of the Hanover winter season, the activities of the winter sports team do not receive so much attention as is deserved for the services they give.
Soon after the first of October, Coach Otto Schniebs sends out his call for candidates. This year 57 enthusiasts responded and training began immediately. The fall workouts, in addition to limbering and strengthening exercises, consist of cross-country running ski candidates running with ski poles. It is indeed a rather incongruous sight to see a long line of runners crossing the golf course with ski poles swinging rhythmically, at a time when snow is farthest from one's thoughts. This training program is supplemented by informal talks and illustrated lectures on ski technique. Well on the road to "condition," with nearly two months of training behind them, the squad is able to take full advantage of the arrival of winter.
The first competition of the season will come during the latter part of Christmas vacation when a picked group will participate in the Annual College Week Tournament at Lake Placid. The second feature, is, of course, our own Carnival meet, followed later in February by the Intercollegiate Winter Sports Union championships at Lucerne, Canada. Besides these feature meets, plans are being made to send representatives to other jumping tournaments in the vicinity, such as those at Brattleboro and Greenfield, while a team of skaters will probably represent Dartmouth at the University of New Hampshire Carnival.
After several mediocre seasons, the Dartmouth winter sports team seemed to revive last year and turned in a wonderful record. At Lake Placid in December it won the President Harding Trophy for the second consecutive season. In February at the annual Carnival meet which was also the championship meet of the Intercollegiate Winter Sports Union, Dartmouth nosed out New Hampshire, the defending champion, in a closely contested match. There is no doubt that Dartmouth has a reputation as a winter sports college. This is due to a great extent to its environment. However a large share of its student body comes from sections where conditions are far less suited to winter sports; and it is largely from this material that the squad has to be developed. In this respect it is at a disadvantage when compared with McGill and New Hampshire, where many students come from a region where skiing comes almost before walking.
INTERCOLLEGIATE SKATING
