BURNHAM TOP HARRIER
Another outstanding note in the Big Green sports department is the triumph of the Dartmouth cross-country team in the Eastern Intercollegiate championship meet recently held at Van Cortlandt Park in New York. Competing against sixteen top teams from the Eastern section, the Indians, paced by Captain Don Burnham who finished first, captured four of the first ten places and gave Dartmouth its initial victory in this championship meet.
In other meets this fall the Big Green harriers won the Heptagonals and several dual meets to complete an undefeated season. In addition to Burnham, who ranks as one of the nation's outstanding track men, Clark Judge '46, now a Marine in the V-12 school here, and Bill Atkinson, former Manhattan star, have been the leaders on Harry Hillman's hill and dale squad. Cross-country men who will receive certificates and charms for the 1943 season include Captain Don Burnham, Clark Judge, Bill Atkinson, Egon Werdelman, Fred Kahn, A 1 Lupa, Line Stoughton, j. J. Garibaldi, and Tom Candler.
And while we're still on the subject, plans are now underway to have a regular Big Green track team this winter. Director of Athletics William H. McCarter is now arranging a schedule of dual meets, while Coach Hillman is expected to issue the call for candidates shortly.
The Big Green soccer team finished the season with an impressive record of four wins and one defeat, and Coach Tommy Dent has announced the awarding of certificates and charms to the following men: Captain James H. Pert, David S. Jarvis, Richard L. Morse, Everett S. Nordstrum, Walter S. Nylund, RoDert A. Roberts, Carl J. Stringer Jr., and Fred T. Vogel, all Navy V-i2; John C. Eddy, John F. Fisher, Albert D. Potter Jr., and Charles H. Stebbins, Jr., Marines; William B. Roberts '44; Charles H. Patton Jr. '45, and Richard P. Luetters '47. Also co-managers Alan N. Hall '47 and Barry A. Marks '47.
In the winter sports department Director of Athletic McCarter has announced that Dartmouth definitely will not have a hockey team this year, but that the Big Green will be represented in boxing, wrestling, and basketball. Increased interest in boxing and wrestling among Naval V-12 trainees has led to the restoration of these sports to the Dartmouth athletic program after many years, while hockey has been dropped for the duration because of lack of foes and other war conditions.
Chief Specialists from the Naval V-12 physical training staff will have charge of the boxing and wrestling squads, and a schedule for these two aggregations is now being arranged.
The winter basketball season is scheduled to get underway on December 4 when the Big Green quintet will travel to Princeton to face the Tigers in an EIL contest. This year's schedule includes fifteen games, eight of them against regular league opponents. With Harvard and Yale definitely out of EIL basketball competition this winter, the four remaining teams are playing a home and home series in a modified round-robin tournament.
Coach Earl Brown will take over the coaching duties of the basketball quintet immediately after the close of the football season. In the meantime Ensign Leon P. Williams, assistant physical training officer of the V-12 unit, has been working out with a squad of about 30 candidates. Included among the stars on this year's Big Green quintet will be lanky Aud Brindley, freshman star on last winter's Dartmouth court five, Larry Baxter, former St. John's star, Larry Killick, high scoring forward from the University of Vermont, and John Monahan, right guard on last year's court team who is expected to report to basketball after the close of the football season.
From Robinson Hall the Dartmouth Outing Club reports that it will have a Big Green ski team this winter if a sufficient number of meets can be arranged. At an organization meeting recently Bill Ashley '46, varsity letterman last year and captain of the freshman team two years ago, was chosen to lead the ski team this winter.
FORWARD PASSING ACE for Dartmouth all season has been Don Kasprzak, former Co lumbia back, who has tossed his way into the select circle of stars. He is a Marine trainee.
OUT INTO THE OPEN for a long gain in the first quarter of the Columbia game galloped left halfback Larry Bartnick '46, who was finally stopped by the Lions' Otto Apel (42) .
BILL WEST, V-12 freshman trainee, who has been one of the Big Green's running stars during the latter half of the season. He was a schoolboy star in Massachusetts last year.
