Track
Harry Hillman's twenty-fifth Dartmouth track team entered the annual triangular meet with Harvard and Cornell at Boston on March 10, with the best chance to win that the Green track and field men have had in recent years. The absence of Captain Michelet, who lay ill in Dick's House, was sorely felt, however, and Cornell, not Dartmouth, ended Harvard's nine-year reign by surprising superiority in the running events. The final score gave Cornell 451/2, Harvard 391/2* and Dartmouth 31.
By way of preparation, the Indians had swamped New Hampshire, 80 to 19, in an indoor meet at Hanover on February 23, but this was evidently a poor tonic. Steve Woodbury of Dartmouth turned in the outstanding performance of the Triangulars by clearing 6 feet 514 inches in the high jump to set a new College and meet record. The former record of one half inch less was made in 1922 by Leroy T. Brown '23.
Cornell clinched its victory by nosing out Dartmouth in the final relay event, after Paul Vipond and Bob Linders had captured two first places each to send the Red trackmen ahead. Bob Rodman, broad-jump winner, Dick Brister, who tied Schumann and Woodbury of Harvard for first in the pole vault, and Phil Clark, who tied Linders for first place in the 300-yard event, were Dartmouth's first-place winners along with Steve Woodbury. Chauncy Colton, Boardman Veazie, Joe Donovan, Bob Quimby, and Bill Stowe were the other point-winners for Dartmouth.
In the special 50-yard dash for freshmen, the Green yearlings made a clean sweep of all three places.
The summary: 50-yard dash—Won by Linders (C); Colton(D), second; Hardy (C), third. Time 53/1sec.300-yard dash—Tie for first between Clark(D) and Linders (C); tie for third between Morse (H) and McCarty (H). Time34 sec.600-yard run—Won by Sampson (C); Veazie(D), second; Donovan (D), third. Timei min. itsV5 sec. 1000-yard run—Won by Vipond (C); White(H), second; Bliss (H), third. Time—2min. itP/s sec.One-mile run—Won by Vipond (C); Scheu(H), second; Quimby (D), third. Time—-4 min. 254/0 sec.Two-mile run—Won by Kerr (C); Play fair(H), second; Kaskella (C), third. Time—9min. 35 1/5 sec.45-yard high hurdles—Won by Hayes (H);Merwin (C), second; Irving (C), third.Time—6 sec. (equals meet record).Mile relay—Won by Cornell (Schallan,Kane, Linders, and Sampson); Dartmouth (Clark, Donovan, Hair, andVeazie), second. Time 3 min. 31 2/1 sec.High jump—Won by Woodbury (D); Godley (C), second; tie for third betweenRatkoski (C) and Hall (H). Height—6 ft.514 in. (new meet and College record).Running broad jump—Won by Rodman(D); Stowe (D), second; Hosier (H), third.Winning jump—22 ft. 514 in.Pole vault—Tie for first among Brister (D),Schumann (H) and Woodberry (H).Height—l 2 ft. 6 in.16-pound shot—Won by Dean (H); Healey(H), second; Houpt (C), third. Distance 46 ft. 214 in.35-pound weight—Won by Healey (H);Gathers (H), second; Harlow (C), third.Distance—48 ft. 53/, in.Freshman 50-yard dash—Won by Brown(D); Stinson (D), second; Mitchell (D),third. Time—6 sec.
In the indoor intercollegiates held in New York on March 5, Dartmouth took five points on Steve Woodbury's tie for second in the high jump and Dick Brister's tie for fourth place in the pole vault. Bob Button reached the semi-final heat in the 60-yard dash, and Bill Embry gained the semi-final heat in the high hurdles. Woodbury cleared 6 feet 4% inches to tie Eipel of Manhattan, and Brister went to 13 feet in the vault.
