Basketball

To borrow a phrase from the ManchesterUnion's Dick Montgomery, the 1933-34 basketball season was the same old story told with a new set of scores. A whirlwind at the outset of the league campaign, the Dartmouth court team went into an inexplicable decline, and then came back with a rush in the closing two games. The Indians gained an even break in 12 league contests, and finished in fifth place behind Pennsylvania, Cornell, Princeton and Yale. Four of the Green's half-dozen victories were gained at the expense of Columbia and Harvard, who finished in the last two places.

After breaking its fifth-place tie with Columbia by means of a 48-28 victory over the Lions at Hanover on February 24, the Indians went to Yale four nights later and defeated the Elis, 23-19, in a dull and uninteresting game. Yale started with a rush, gaining an early 7-2 lead, but Bob Miller and Jocko Stangle soon gave the Green a 9-7 advantage. Yale went ahead on a pair of baskets, but two-pointers by Jake Edwards, Miller and Stangle left Dartmouth with a 15-11 lead at half-time. The Green lead was cut to a single point soon after the second session began, but Al Bonniwell netted three points, and a trio of baskets by Bonniwell, Stangle and Miller clinched the result.