With the Outing Club

Ski Team, Though Still Strong, May Have Reached the End of Its Long Reign of Intercollegiate Supremacy

THE OUTING CLUB has had a long-standing tradition of producing the best ski teams in the country. Past years have seen the famous Dick Durrance, the Bradley and Chivers brothers, Bud Little, John Litchfield, Ed Wells, Ed Meservery, Ted Hunter—it reads like a roster of the skiing great in this country.

This year we have a team that, for the most part, lacks varsity experience (and up to publication, lacks snow). Our prospects certainly cannot be described in the same roseate terms that the teams of the past have inspired. Perhaps we have at last come to the point where Dartmouth's skiing supremacy can no longer be a sure thing; from now on we shall have to fight hard to stay on top.

These are the men who will be in the running for the varsity team this year:

Captain Percy Rideout, a senior, begins his third year as a member of the varsity. A good skier in all four events, last year he placed first in the combined rating in both the I.S.U. and Eastern Championship meets, and first in langlauf at the Vermont Winter Carnival.

Bob Skinner, senior, specializes in downhill and slalom, but runs and jumps well. He was a member of last year's Carnival team.

Charlie Wentworth, another senior, placed fourth in the Vermont Winter Carnival slalom last year. He is a good downhill man, as well.

Joe Dunford, senior, placed third in the slalom, and fifth in the downhill at the Lebanon-Dartmouth meet. Bill Halsey and Ned Jacoby, both seniors, showed up well last year in the Eastern Slopes, Conway Carnival, and Dartmouth-Colgate meets.

Among the juniors Charlie McLane did good work in the Kimball Union race, and placed first in the N. H. Carnival slalom, langlauf, and combined events, and second in the Dartmouth Carnival langlauf last season. Spiff Little did well in the Lake Placid Invitation Meet, and shows much promise for this year.

The sophomores will bring in several good men, from whom we can expect a fine team in the next few years. Jake Nunnemacher, Bob Searles, Jack Tobin, Hampden Wentworth, and Roger Simpter are outstanding in this new group.

All in all, we cannot expect the phenomenal teams that have come out of Dartmouth in the recent past. Those days are gone—the truly golden days of Dartmouth skiing. But a good team we can be sure of, as long as Dartmouth skis.