Otto Schniebs Resigns
Otto Schniebs, coach of the Dartmouth ski team for the past six winters and nationally known leader of the sport, resigned his position with the Dartmouth Outing Club on April 19, after the Green skiers had closed their 1936 season by winning the annual Harvard-Dartmouth slalom race on Mt. Washington. Coach Schniebs is the eastern representative of a national ski firm, and with the pressure of business becoming greater and greater, he has finally been forced to give up coaching altogether. Outing Club officials knew of his intentions early in the year but did not announce his resignation until the season had ended.
"We would do anything we could to hold him," Outing Club officials said of the man who has produced six successive championship teams, "but Otto has definitely decided to transfer his ability to business. We have not as yet decided on his successor, but we are following several suggestions made to us by Otto."
The peak of Coach Schniebs amazing work with the Dartmouth skiers was reached with the placing of four of his men on the 1936 United States Olympic Ski Team. In addition to the unprecedented record of six straight intercollegiate titles, won in competition with the best college teams of America and Canada, Coach Schniebs' skiers took innumerable lesser championships and last spring won the unofficial team title at the national cham- pionships at Mt. Ranier, Washington. Tempting offers have been made to Coach Schniebs by other ski clubs, but he chose to continue the work at Dartmouth which made him the foremost teacher of the sport in this country.
Coach Schniebs' successor will be a fortunate man next winter as far as material is concerned. In addition to most of this year's championship team, he will have the three Olympic stars, Dick Durrance, Ted Hunter, and Warren Chivers. Hunter, back from Germany, took part in the Harvard-Dartmouth slalom competition on April 19, winning the event in fine form. The Green skiers swept the first five places, Eddie Meservey, Otis Lamson, Jack Litchfield, and Jack Durrance finishing behind Hunter in that order.
