Ski Team

Dartmouth's crack ski team (the new, abbreviated version of the Winter Sports Team) monopolized the athletic spotlight this past month by romping away with the President Harding Trophy during College Week at Lake Placid. Otto Schniebs' sixman team not only brought the Harding Trophy back to Hanover for the fifth consecutive year, but Warren Chivers '37 was awarded the Marshal Foch Trophy for the outstanding performance in the jumping event.

The Lake Placid meet was conducted under the new regulations of the Intercollegiate Ski Union, which limit competition to ski events only and award points on the basis of team performance rather than individual excellence. This quasi-British system, sponsored by McGill University and worked out by Prof. Charles A. Proctor '00 of Dartmouth, takes the highest four men representing a team in any event, gives a proportionate percentage of 100 points to each man as his time compares with the winning time, and then divides by four to arrive at the team score for the event.

The value of a well-balanced team like Dartmouth's was quite evident in the Lake Placid meet, and in this respect the hopes of the I. S. U. were fully realized. Clark of St. Patrick's easily captured the individual honors, but his team was forced to take fourth place in the final standings.

The Green ski team includes Captain Sel Hannah '35, Don Richardson '35, Bern Woods '36, Ed Hunter '37, Warren Chivers '37, and Dick Durrance '38. The labors of Coach Schniebs over a period of years have borne fruit in perhaps the best crop of skiers that the Dartmouth Outing Club has ever fielded. The team harbors a number of Olympic prospects, and in Durrance, a freshman from Newport, N. H., Dartmouth possesses not only the Eastern downhill champion but also this country's foremost executor of the high-speed or "tempo" turn, which seems to be the latest craze among the experts.

The I. S. U. regulations will be followed in the intercollegiate ski meet which the Outing Club is holding in conjunction with Carnival on February 8 and 9, as well as in the I. S. U. championships at McGill this winter. The addition of a relay has brought the number of events in an official ski meet up to six: the downhill, slalom, langlauf or cross-country, jump, relay, and combined event. Present members of the I. S. U., all of whom are expected to compete in the Carnival meet, are Dartmouth, New Hampshire, McGill, Ottawa, St. Patrick's of Ottawa, Cornell, Williams, Middlebury, Bates, Bowdoin, Maine and Norwich. The first eight are active, the last four associate, members.