Other Fall Sports
While there is still a glum feeling around Hanover after the varsity football game with Harvard, the fall sports enthusiast need look only past Memorial Field to Chase Field to find something about which to cheer, for over there every afternoon can be seen Tommy Dent's soccer squad going through its daily routine. And this soccer team may very well bring Dartmouth its first soccer championship in what some people would call a dog's age.
Tommy Dent's men started the season inauspiciously by dropping a 2-1 engagefeed ment to a capable Amherst team and nothing seemed to be going right. That kick in the trousers was apparently just what the doctor ordered because the booters came back and won their next three starts to put themselves in a swell position to walk off with the league crown.
The point system for rating the soccer teams gives a winning team two points and a tying team one point. If Amherst wins the rest of its games, the Green would have to go through undefeated from here in to cop the crown. They can do it because of the fact that they have one more game on their schedule than Amherst, and therefore an opportunity to pick up two extra points on the Lord Jeffs—just enough to squeeze them in on top.
Well, following the Amherst defeat, the team began to click. Their first victory came against Mass State when the first string line of Dick Deane, Hal Eckardt, and Gordie Smith finally hit its stride. This line is easily one of the best in Dartmouth soccer history and one of the finest ever produced in Eastern soccer. Against Mass State the line clicked and the tussle saw Dick Deane slam home four goals personally. Deane is the goal maker on this line but the play of the three men together is something to be marvelled at.
Against Wesleyan the Indians showed their power to come back. Trailing 2-0, they went to work. Sophomore outside left Howie Price gave the Green its first goal at about the ten-minute mark. Then the first line proceeded to put the game away. Working beautifully the first line swept down the field and set the ball up where Dick Deane booted his fifth goal of the season. A short while later the same trio moved the ball near the Wesleyan goal and this time Gordie Smith came through with the tally to make it 3-2. The final point came off the toe of sophomore Dave Pierson whose fine play has recently been mentioned in The Dartfnouth where he was named with Deane, Smith, and Eckardt as "The Four Horsemen" of the offense.
Dick Deane came through with another goal in the next outing against Harvard midway in the second half. Then substitute Johnny Earl applied the clincher near the end of the game and the booters had tucked away another victory, this time a 2-0 win.
The next league contest takes place on Friday, October 24, at Springfield against Springfield College. Dartmouth's highscorer, the aforementioned Dick Deane should be doubly dangerous against the gymnasts inasmuch as he will be performing before his home town crowd in Springfield.
One of the most pleasant surprises of the year as far as the soccer team is concerned has been the goalie Charley Mottola, a sophomore. Coach Dent warned at the outset of the year that he would have to find a capable goalie in order to come close to winning any titles. He had lost New England's best soccer goalie Red Munroe '41, and had to find a capable replacement. The quick-moving, easy-going Mottola has proven to be a world-beater in the nets. Already he has two shutouts to his credit and he has been a pillar of strength on defense.
There's another ray of hope for fall sports enthusiasts in the current Dartmouth cross-country team. The Indian harriers won their first start against Colgate and Vermont handily. This race established Don Burnham, sophomore running star, as one of the East's outstanding distance runners. His freshman year marked him as a man to watch but in his first meet he put the lid on it and definitely established himself as the Green's outstanding performer and certainly one of the best anywhere. Burnham won the cross-country race against Colgate and Vermont and set a new course record in so doing. And that in his first time over the course in a varsity meet!
Harry Hillman has other good runners on his squad too. Captain Sid Bull is a wellabove-average runner and can be counted on to add points to the Indian total. Another sophomore standout is Bob Williams back in school this year after a year's layoff. Williams was captain of the '43 freshman team and this year returns to school as a full-fledged sophomore to round out a top-notch trio of Burnham, Bull, and Williams. This may be the year for the Indians to howl. They certainly have the strongest cross-country team in the College's history. The next meet with Harvard and New Hampshire will tell the story.
The Dartmouth freshman football team has turned out to be a lot better than was first expected. Until they came over to Memorial Field to scrimmage with the varsity, they were rated as a poor freshman group. However, after a few scrimmages with their varsity brothers, their stock took a definite jump for the better because of their scrappy and smart play. This description of the team fitted them perfectly on Friday before the Harvard game when they beat down a powerful Boston College freshman eleven 6-0.
The only thing that kept the Dartmouth team in the ball game against overpowering odds was the fight and scrappiness that the team displayed. They were outweighed at least 18 pounds to the man yet they outfought and outsmarted the B. C. yearlings throughout. True, their offensive by rushing gained only 29 yards. But B. C. could only gain 19!
Even though there are but three or four men on the freshman team who look capable of stepping up to the varsity, this is a good freshman team because of its determined attitude to become a good team. The team is not without its standouts. The left end John Monahan is one of the best end prospects at Dartmouth in a decade. A rangy 6'2" stalwart, he is a brilliant pass receiver and a defensive end with plenty of savvy. Planted next to him at left tackle is a player who very easily can win a berth next year on the varsity if he continues to show the stuff he has shown thus far this season. He is Hal Lewis, a 215-pounder from Scott High in Orange, N. J. Lewis has all the prerequisites of a good tackle, being fast, smart, strong, and aggressive. Other standouts for the freshmen to date have been Charlie Holt, 160-pound streak at tailback; John Burroughs, 220-pound blocker; Roy Duke, 190-pound right end; and Norm Brown, the light (170) but nifty center.
SENIOR GUARD Doug Stowell '42, from New Haven, Conn.,who is contributing experience and strengthto the center of Dartmouth's line this fall.
NEVER SAID DIE One of the stirring tales connected withthe 1941 varsity eleven is the rise from lastyear's freshman "B" squad of Steve Holmes'44, leading guard candidate and son ofRobert J. Holmes '09 of Winchester, Mass.,former Alumni Council member.
Football Broadcasts The Dartmouth-Princeton football game on November 8 and the Dartmouth-Cornell game the following Saturday will both be broadcast. Stations carrying the Princeton game are WBOC, Salisbury, Md.; WFBR, Baltimore, Md.; WFIL, Philadelphia; WJEJ, Hagerstown, Md.; WTBO, Cumberland. Md.; WTNJ, Trenton, N. J.; and W7INY (FM Station of WOR) New York. Stations carrying the Cornell game are WFBL, WHCU, WHEC, and WNBF.
