HOCKEY TEAM STARTS WELL

Due to the transportation problem the western trip planned for Coach Eddie Jeremiah's hockey team was cancelled, and a week of practice at West Point substituted. For the week following DC AC scheduled three games in Boston to provide the sextet with a taste of official competition.

An unbeaten Boston College sextet was the first of the trio on which the strength of the 1943 Dartmouth team was tested, and the Big Green lived up to just about all the hopes and half-hearted predictions of its coach by rolling up a 14-2 win to start the season.

The substitution of freshman Bill Riley for his brother Jack, now in the Naval Air Corps, in the famed "Bomber Line" of Riley, Rondeau, and Harrison, didn't seem to hurt its effectiveness. Of the 10 goals scored by the first line during the game Riley scored four and got his stick on five of the others. Dick Rondeau picked up five goals and four assists to preserve his record of top scorer of the team, while Bill Harrison turned in a goal and two assists.

B. C. scored the opening goal of the game 39 seconds after the start, but Rondeau tied it up just after the seven-minute mark, and from there on in it was all Dartmouth. Scoring on beautifully executed passing plays, often when shorthanded, the Green had a 3-1 lead by the close of the first period and added six more goals in the middle stanza of the rough contest which saw Dartmouth with a man in the penalty box during much of the game.

Two nights later every Dartmouth and Harvard fan who was among the fortunate 1200 able to jam their way into the Skating Club of Boston (spectators were forced to cling to the pipes and ventilators along the wail in an effort to watch the spectacular contest) was treated to one of the finest examples of offensive college hockey ever played in Boston, as the Big Green took the measure of the undefeated Crimson, 10-8.

After Bill Riley had put Dartmouth in a 1-0 lead near the middle of the opening period, Harvard tied it up when a shot was deflected past goalie Al Barrett. The two sextets tore the game wide open in the second period, and it was only the superior ability of the two goalies which kept the score down within reasonable bounds.

The Indians whipped three shots past the Harvard goalie within 80 seconds as the second period closed, breaking the 4-4 tie to which the score had seesawed, and it looked as if Harvard might wind up a badly beaten team. But the Crimson came surging back with three goals of their own, after Harrison had made it eight for Dartmouth, and it was still either team's game. With five minutes to go and the Green leading, 8-7, Harrison and Rondeau poured in two more goals with Harvard shorthanded to clinch the contest.

It was one of those games which a hockey fan dreams of and so rarely finds in collegiate hockey: two teams of great offensive power unleashed and roaring from one end of the ice to the other. Dartmouth's defence of Hal Cannon and George Pulliam at the points and Barrett in the net held up well against the speedy Harvard attack which had led the Crimson to seven easy victories before meeting the Green. Unfortunately, the game will not be counted in the official Pentagonal League records, but it afforded Dartmouth a real taste of battle before the start of the League season.

Expected by every one to be an anticlimax after the Harvard game the night before, Dartmouth's victory over Northeastern, 9-4, was earned the hard way. Playing far over their heads, the Huskies, soundly beaten by B. C., held the Green scoreless for the first 13 minutes with fine defensive play and a sharp offensive. The first Dartmouth score, by Bill Riley, came, typically, when the Indians were shorthanded.

Northeastern did not threaten until the final period when three quick goals cut the Dartmouth lead from 7-1 to 7-4, but goals by Riley and Rondeau put out the glowing spark of hope. The Green showed the strain in the final period from the gruelling battle of the previous night and slowed down to defensive hockey, giving the attacking Huskies their opportunity to pick up the three markers.

Among the scoring totals of the three contests it is notable that neither Mo Mulhern nor Snook Hughes, center and wing on the second line, has picked up any points. From last winter's records however, this condition should be soon taken care of. The first line leads in goals and assists, having done the lion's share of the scoring.

The third line, made up of freshman Mike Thayer at center with sophomores Murray Smart and Phil Fessenden on the wings, has also proved itself more potent than usual, and as a result the line has taken its regular turn on the ice. Thayer is the leading scorer of the group with three goals and two assists, ranking behind Rondeau, Riley and Harrison in the team scoring, and his mates are close behind.

Promoted from captain to coach by his graduation and the departure of swimming coach Karl Michael for a commission in Lt.-Com. Tom Hamilton's physical education branch of the Navy, Fred Worthen '43 had the pleasant gift of a victory handed him when Dartmouth beat Navy to 35M> in the opening of the EIL season.

Made up almost entirely of freshmen and sophomores, Worthen's squad is promising and will improve steadily during the season, but whether its record will be equal to that of last season's cannot be prophesied.

Dartmouth's skiing forces were widely split during the vacation, and as a result there was no strong official team competing. Coach Percy Rideout has joined the Mountain Ski Troops, leaving the Big Green skiers without any coach, and, as no successor has been yet named, it is expected that they will operate without a coach for the entire season.

STARTING POINT FOR REBIRTH OF WRESTLING Last year's freshman wrestling team, which gained recognition from the DC AC and whichprovided the leaders for this season's greatly enlarged program. Front row, left to right:Tom Candler, John Shannon, Howard Sawyer, and Dick Jordan. Back row: Phil Lewis,Ralph Tyler (captain and coach), and Bill Anderson.