Big Green Teams
Midsummer Finds Dartmouth Teams Keeping Fit. Football Men Drill. Burnham Beats MacMitchell in the Mile Run
A MIDSUMMER PREDICTION ABOUT the 1942 Dartmouth football squad is - similar to an impossible problem in mathematics—there are too many unknowns. Two things are certain: It will be large and it has promise.
Added to its expected losses by graduation, the Big Green has lost to the armed services probably more veteran material than any other college in the Ivy League. Of an impressive list of over 30 players on last year's squad now in either the Army or Navy, so are lettermen.
Because of the suspension of freshman football for the duration of the war the varsity squad will be much larger than usual. To handle this increased number Coach Tuss McLaughry now has on his staff assistant coaches George Barclay, Johnny Dell Isola, Johnny Handrahan, and Ray Riddick. Dick Cassiano left for the Navy shortly before the end of the spring semester.
The most pressing problem is the center of the line. No candidates during spring practice were more than adequate for both the defensive and offensive assignments of the center and guard positions. There are two centers from last season's squad, juniors Warren Leopold and Bill Brewster, plus a promising newcomer up from the freshman team, Norm Brown of Maiden, Mass.
As a nucleus for the guard positions Coach McLaughry has lettermen Lee Anderson, Roger Antaya, and Maurice Dampier. Nick Daukas appears a certainty for one of the tackle spots, but lettermen Roger Arnold and Joe Crowley may have a fight on their hands for a starting end berth.
The brightest prospect is definitely the backfield. Here Dartmouth has three returning veterans, juniors Meryll Frost and Tom Douglas, and senior Ray Wolfe. This trio has the experience and if a good block ing back appears, Dartmouth may be comparatively well off in the backfield. A possible candidate for this No. 2 back is Johnny Burroughs, 215-pound sophomore from Westboro, Mass.
Two other promising ball carriers from the 1945 freshman team are Gunnard Reynolds from Minneapolis and George Pulliam from Edgewood, R. I. Light Charlie Holt from Melrose, Mass. was a spark in the yearling backfield last season, but failed to realize his full potentialities during spring practice.
For those freshmen and upperclassmen who are in college during the summer semester the coaching staff has planned light drills three days a week. The drills are being devoted largely to the running of plays, with no contact work involved. These preliminary practice sessions will end shortly before the final examination period the last of August.
Twice-a-day drills start on September a for the entire squad and will continue until the opening of the fall semester the middle of the month. No attempt will be made to cut the size of the squad since the coaching staff hopes to keep as many men interested as possible. Normally the squad hovers around 35 by mid-season, but this fall it may be twice as large.
Coach McLaughry plans to have a traveling squad of 36, including any freshmen who make the grade. The remaining elevens will work on opponents' plays. To keep the interest of the freshmen, a yearling team will be organized among those '46's who do not make the traveling squad and this team has a scheduled game with the Brown freshmen for the last Saturday in October.
Two changes have been made in the schedule. The Holy Cross game, originally planned for a home game, will be played in Worcester as part of a special Crusader anniversary. Also Cornell has moved the Dartmouth game from Ithaca to Buffalo because of the gas and tire situation.
Several Ivy League colleges have added service teams to their schedules, but because Dartmouth already has a full ninegame schedule no arrangement for a similar game for the Big Green is possible. The Athletic Council does not intend to change the site of the three home games, Miami, Colgate and William and Mary.
In summary, the success of Dartmouth's 1942 season depends largely upon the development of the line. Despite graduation and enlistment losses the backfield talent appears at this time to be as promising as any in the Ivy League. The Big Green's first wartime football team will be of unknown quality, but Selective Service and graduation will also have a telling effect upon Dartmouth's nine opponents.
Turning to the summer season, a baseball squad that might have gone places in the EIL race if the breaks had been in its favor apparently will redeem itself. At this writing sophomore Jim Doole from Chelmsford, Mass. already has wins over the Goodyear Wingfoots (a Windsor industrial nine), St Michael's College, and Williams, and Lenny Friedman has a 2-0 victory over Claremont. The lone defeat is a 5-4 decision to Cone Automatic, another industrial nine from Windsor.
At the start of the season the big guns in the Green's hitting attack were Dixie Daniels, rightfielder from Adams, Mass., and Earl Flood, center fielder from Shaker Heights, Ohio.
The vanguard of the class of 1946 arrived on July 6 and by the Claremont game on the 12th Jack Sayers had replaced Fred Campbell on first. Besides Daniels, two other members of the spring campaign's first team are present. Captain Johnny Koslowski is at his customary catcher's position and is batting in the cleanup spot, while Al Barrett has retained his secondbase assignment.
Sophomores fill the remaining positions with Phil Fessenden, at shortstop, Charlie Schumacher on third, and Bill Cary in left field. How many more freshmen besides Sayers will break into the lineup is uncertain at this writing.
Remaining games on the schedule include a home-and-home series with Amherst, Brown, and Providence College, single contests with Lebanon and the Winooski Red Sox, and a return game with Cpne Automatic of Windsor.
Stan Zarod, Dartmouth's third-baseman during the spring season, was voted all-EIL choice by the various coaches in the circuit.
On Coach Red Hoehn's tennis schedule this summer there are matches with Amherst and Williams with the possibility of several more. Before the arrival of the freshmen this summer Captain Art Cohen was playing in the number one position followed by two lettermen, Hardwick Caldwell and Herb Wolff. Mel Fenichell, a senior, has shown great improvement and has replaced Dick Bugbee at number four.
Fred Berthold, Milt Yondorf and John Chambers comprise the rest of the squad, but here, as in baseball, freshman recruits may find their way into the lineup before the summer ends.
Coming back from an upset in the National Dinghy Championships, Dartmouth's yachting team sailed to victory in the 15th Annual Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association series at Oyster Bay to retain the McMillan Cup for another year.
The Dartmouth crew, headed by Emil Mosbacher as skipper, won only one of the five races in the series but finished with 11914 points after a close contest! Harvard held a lead of a point and a half after winning the fourth race, but finished a disappointing fourth in the deciding event.
In track, two Dartmouth runners scored upsets. Competing in his last race for Dartmouth, diminutive Sid Bull defeated Yale's Leroy Schwartzkopf in the annual Heptagonal meet held at Cambridge on May 16. The Eli star had already beaten Bull several times before in the two-mile run, and set the pace in this race until the last lap. Putting on a burst of speed, Bull passed the tiring Yale runner and won by an easy 100 yards. His time was only sixtenths of a second ofE the meet record.
Despite the fact that Dartmouth's entry in the Heptagonals was of necessity small, the Green finished third in team standings as Burnham easily won the mile and finished second to teammate Bob Williams in the half mile.
But the day that Don Burnham and all Dartmouth had been waiting for came on June 6. Before a startled group of track experts and sports writers at Pelham, N. Y., the Big Green sophomore established himself as one of the greatest trackmen Dartmouth has produced when he overtook Leslie MacMitchell five yards from the tape to win the mile feature of the 51st annual Metropolitan A. A. U. Championships. Previously in the IC4A meet Burnham had placed second to the N. Y. U. ace.
Later at the Nationals on June 20 at Randall's Island both MacMitchell and Burnham used the wrong tactics and the 1500 meter title went to Gil Dodds.
After the National Championships Burnham broke the College record in the 880 at a meet in Passaic, New Jersey, but his performance may not be accepted by the Athletic Council because he was running for the New York Athletic Club at the time.
John A. Koslowski '43, of Manchester,Mass., heavy-hitting captain of baseballthis summer. He is equally dependable be-hind the plate as catcher.
