FOLLOWING THE BIG GREEN TEAMS
AFTER SWEEPING five of the six events, the Dartmouth ski team was forced to take third place in its own Winter Carnival meet on February 8 and 9, when it was disqualified and held scoreless in the final relay race. The disqualification was meted out, in accordance with the new Intercollegiate Ski Union rules, when a member of the Green relay team got off the marked course. The final standings gave New Hampshire 511.47 points, McGill 490.69, and Dartmouth 477.69.
Despite the outcome of the meet, Otto Schniebs' skiers displayed their all-round brilliance and thrilled a record Carnival crowd with their daring jumping and downhill dashes. Dick Durrance, the Green freshman who has been the sensation of the present skiing season, easily captured individual honors by winning the downhill, langlauf and combined events, and finishing second in the jump and third in the slalom. He turned in the longest jump of the day, 34.1 meters, but was bested by his teammate Bern Woods in form; and a missed flag in the slalom undoubtedly robbed him of first in that event. Durrance turned in his best per- formance in the downhill, in which event he is probably the most gifted skier in the country. Roaring down the mile course from Velvet Rocks at better than a mile-a-minute clip, he astounded 3,000 watchers by winning the event in 58.8 seconds.
HUNTER WINS SLALOM
Ted Hunter also played a prominent role in Dartmouth's magnificent performance, taking first in the slalom and second in the downhill; while Dave Bradley, another freshman, took third in the langlauf and fourth in the jump, to finish well toward the top in the combined event. Don Richardson was a member of Dartmouth's winning combination in the slalom, and Woods also figured in the langlauf and combined-event scoring in addition to winning the jump.
Under the new I. S. U. regulations, speed-skating did not figure in the meet scoring this year, but Carnival spectators were nevertheless thrilled to see "Pug" Goldthwait '36 equal the world's record in the 440-yard race with an unofficial time °f 35.4 seconds. Goldthwait, who is New England champion, also won the two-mile race, while George Wallace '3B, California titlist, finished second in that event and third in the 440.
Prior to the Carnival meet, Indian skiers entered a number of competitions in New England and Canada, winning top honors in each instance. In the Nansen Ski Club meet at Berlin, N. H., the first week-end in February, Warren Chivers '37 captured the senior cross-country race, beating out Ole Hegge, a member of the 193 a Norwegian Olympic team, by a small margin. Bern Woods won the senior jumping event from a large field including the Anderson brothers, former Olympic skiers, and Chivers, who finished fifth in the jump, was awarded first in the combined event. Durrance took fourth in the jump and the same position in the combined competition.
Durrance and Link Washburn '35 entered an international meet sponsored by the Toronto Ski Club two weeks before Carnival, and the former won the downhill and slalom events, as well as the combined event based on these two races, and placed in the langlauf and jump, as well as in the combined event based on these two contests. Washburn finished seventh in the downhill and tenth in the slalom in a field of over forty contestants.
In the U. S. Olympic trials for the combined event at Lake Placid on Feburary 12 and 13, Chivers placed fourth, Woods seventh, Durrance eighth, and Captain Sel Hannah tenth. Chivers took fourth in the langlauf and seventh in the jump, Woods fourth in the jump and twelfth in the langlauf, Durrance seventh in the jump and fifteenth in the langlauf, and Hannah eleventh in the jump and eleventh in the langlauf.
Durrance turned in another brilliant individual performance to win the Massachusetts State downhill championship on the new Thunderbolt Trail, Mt. Greylock, on February 16. His time of 2:48 set a record for the run. Dartmouth also took first and second in the team championships, the combination of Durrance, Hunter, Bradley and Hannah winning first, and that of Titcomb, Richardson, Soule and Washburn capturing second honors. Ted Hunter, with third place, was again close on the heels of Durrance.
Evidence of widespread prowess among Coach Schniebs' men was given by Team B when it went to Middlebury on February 16 and won the ski meet there by a wide margin. The final score gave Dartmouth 26, Middlebury io, Cornell 9, Williams 6, and Harvard 3. Chamberlin, with first in the langlauf, first in the combined event, and second in the slalom, was Dartmouth's outstanding representative. Meservey also figured prominently in the Green scoring with first in the slalom and third in the jump, while Davis won the jump for Dartmouth.
