Skiing

INTERCOLLEGIATE SKIING will hit a new high in competitive keenness this Winter Carnival with Dartmouth showing definite signs of being below its former all-conquering power and the rest of the field displaying signs of newly found strength.

Defeated by the University of New Hampshire in the Lake Placid Meet during Christmas vacation, Captain Charlie McLane and mates look forward to the opportunity over Carnival of repaying this setback. However, the well-balanced Wildcats are not the only shadow that lies across the path of the Indians, for a Chilean team of expert downhill and slalom skiers is entered, and word has now been received that McGill, long-time rival of Dartmouth, will be able to enter a team. The Redmen have come closer and closer to the Big Green each winter of late, and Carnival would not be the same without this friendly, although intense, rivalry.

Coach Walter Prager has not as yet settled on his seven-man line-up, but will be taxed as never before to hit upon a group that can keep the Green pennant at the top of the intercollegiate winter sports world. From the standpoint of skiing as a competitive sport, the unpredictableness of the 1941 Carnival is exactly the tonic needed, and the excitement and closeness of the scoring over February 7-8 promises to elevate college skiing high in the minds of its followers as an intercollegiate sport of rare spectator interest.