Big Green Teams

Early-Season Records of Hockey and Basketball Teams Disclose Both as Strong Contenders for League Crowns

Dartmouth's winter sports teams are on the spot. Having won the EIL basketball title for the past five years, the Big Green will again be the special target for the rest of the league and for their other opponents. Likewise, Eddie Jeremiah's hockey team will be struggling to live up to the record of 22 wins in 24 starts turned in last winter.

But from the reports of the western trip made by the quintet and of the sextet's Boston conquest it looks as if the Indians will do all right. In fact, they should do considerably better than all right; Ossie Cowles should pick up his sixth hoop title and Jeremiah ought to add another Pentagonal League title to last year's.

Starting off before Christmas and exams with a pair of victories over Springfield, Coach Cowles took his men on a four-game tour of the mid-West after the inauguration of the New Year. Stops were made at the University of Minnesota, Toledo, Wayne, and Seton Hall, the trip finally winding up with the league-opener at Yale just before the start of the new semester.

Unlike Harvard, who, according to the Boston writers, had a great team until they lost four out of five in the West, Dartmouth won four of the five contests they played before returning to Hanover. Only an all-freshman quintet at Toledo was able to pin a loss on the Big Green, overcoming their lead and winning in the final minutes of play.

Dartmouth beat Minnesota, 47-38, in the first game of the tour when a rally late in the second half broke up the previously close contest and sent the Green into a commanding lead. The rally was begun and sustained almost single-handedly by Aud Brindley, freshman forward from Rockville Centre, N. Y., who dropped in three quick baskets. When Brindley netted his first one, he tied the score at 30-all and then pushed Dartmouth into the lead. The Indians racked up 17 points while the Gophers sank 3, and the lead was too much for the home team to overcome.

In tipping the Big Green from the ranks of the unbeaten, Toledo came up from behind after spotting Dartmouth a 30-22 lead at half-time and finished on the long end of a 52-48 score. The Indians led until the final six minutes (halfway through the first half they commanded a 20-6 advantage) but a pair of free throws boosted Toledo to a 45-44 lead, and Dartmouth was never able to catch up.

Almost all of the Green scoring was done from the front court, with only four baskets being netted by the guards. George Munroe and Jim Olsen were high scorers for the visitors, picking up 14 points each at forward and center, while Bob Myers, the other forward, was close behind with 12 points. The six foul shots made by Dartmouth, two each by Olsen, Munroe and Myers, failed to come even close to the 16 dropped in by Toledo, seven made by Zuber, a guard, and six by Minor, Toledo's high scoring forward. Which leads to just a touch of skepticism about the officiating.

Against Wayne University it was a different story. Dartmouth was behind, 21-16, at the end of the first half, but a torrid second half saw the Big Green come from behind to win, 50-32, going away.

Big gun for the Indians was forward Bob Myers, who threw in nine baskets and two free shots for a total of 20 points. Wayne had had things its own way during the opening half, but Myers suddenly got hot as the final half started and sparked the Green rally that left the Tartars far in the rear. Big Jim Olsen was next to Myers in the scoring with 13 points, but Munroe was held down to seven points.

Just for the records of the comparative figure department, Wayne was awarded 15 foul shots and Dartmouth 12. Quite a difference from Toledo.

The Big Green trailed at the half when they ran up against a Seton Hall quintet which had been defeated only by Princeton. But the 22-26 deficit was overcome by three baskets by Aud Brindley to start the second half, and Dartmouth tacked the second game onto a new winning streak, 46-40. The superior height of the Indians gave them a distinct advantage over their scrappy opponents, and the one-handed shots proved too much for the smaller team.

Jim Olsen continued his high-scoring ways with 12 points, while Aud Brindley picked up 10. Munroe was held, as at Minnesota, to a single basket and a sole free throw.

Opening its defence of its EIL crown against Yale, Dartmouth had the game all its own way after the first ten minutes, hanging up the first victory by a 48-29 margin. During the opening minutes Yale hung on grimly, matching the Green basket for basket and once even taking an 11-10 lead, but the Indians came back to command the situation, 21-13, at the half.

Coach Cowles' pair of forwards, Bob Myers and George Munroe, were the two sparks in the win, Myers ringing up 16 points while Munroe was tossing six baskets and two foul shots through the hoop for 14 points.

No CHANGE IN NAMEThe Dartmouth hockey team still has its Harrison-Rondeau-Riley line, even though JackRiley of last year's sensational sophomore combination left to join the Navy Air Corps,for freshman brother Bill (right) has come along to fill his shoes at wing. Veterans of thefirst line are Bill Harrison (left) and Capt. Dick Rondeau (center), who has temporarilybeen lost to the team through a head injury received in practice.

VALUABLE ADDITION TO GREEN COURT SQUAD Audley Brindley, freshman forward from Rockville Centre, N. Y., provided strong support for the regulars during the basketball team's Christmas trip. His three field goals inthe closing minutes clinched the Indians' 47-38 victory over Minnesota.

EDITOR'S NOTE: With this issue, John S.Jenness '44 of Waban, Mass., takes over thepost of Sports Editor of the MAGAZINE, succeeding Elmer G. Stevens Jr. '43 who graduated in December. Jenness is sports editorof The Dartmouth and is Hanover correspondent for The Associated Press and The Boston Herald. He also is a memberof Green Key and Delta Tau Delta fraternity, and entered Dartmouth from theRivers School in Brookline, Mass. He isthe son of Thornton W. Jenness '10.