Big Green Teams

Dartmouth Skiers Lose ISU Crown After Eight-Year Reign; Hockey and Basketball Continue Sparkling Records

Dartmouth's heralded supremacy in the snow, a supremacy which during the days of the Durrance brothers and the older Chivers carried Dartmouth fame and prowess to all corners of the hemisphere, came to an abrupt end Saturday night, February 13, when the University of New Hampshire ski team walked out of the DOC office with the coveted Intercollegiate Ski Union trophy for the senior division championships.

Never since the competitions had started in 1935 had the ISU senior title been out of Dartmouth hands, but the well-balanced Wildcat team finally had their revenge on the Big Green for last winter when they beat Dartmouth in both our Carnival meet and a week later in their own Carnival, only to have Captain Jake Nunnemacher and his mates return the third week and squeeze out a win in the all-important ISU meet at Middlebury.

This year Dartmouth had no second chance. Since the ISU championships had been combined with the 34th Annual Dartmouth Invitation Ski Meet—official name for the meet which was formerly center of Winter Carnival attractions—Coach Ed Blood's Wildcats went back to Durham with both of the most coveted of eastern intercollegiate skiing trophies.

As the Indian skiers surveyed their shattered throne, they were able to find a small measure of consolation in the performance of Captain Bill (Mo) Distin, a senior from Saranac Lake, N. Y., who proved hijnself one of the best intercollegiate all-round skiers in the country. Running under poor snow conditions caused by steady rain on Thursday, the day before the start of the meet, Distin won four of the six events and was a close second in the remaining two events.

The opening day of the meet was all Distin, as he sparked the Dartmouth skiers into an early lead by winning both the downhill and cross-country races, turning in sparkling times far ahead of his nearest competitors. In the downhill Distin's victory, coupled with the tenth and thirteenth places won by teammates "Wemo" Epply and Ric Bradley, substituting for the ailing Johnny Chivers, gave the Big Green a 1.2 point lead over the UNH score, but this proved to be the only event that Dartmouth won.

Although Distin won the cross-country in the afternoon, with freshman Bill Bull taking fifth and Bill Ashley seventh places, the Wildcat trio of Merrill, Dunklee, and Keough occupied the three places between Distin and Bull, to let UNH mark the event in their victory column and cut a bare onetenth of a point off the Dartmouth lead.

Captain Distin placed second in the slalom, a place ahead of Churchill of UNH, but his supporters were unable to beat the other Wildcat slalom entrants, and New Hampshire won the event handily, cutting the last props out of the Dartmouth margin and moving out into the fore herself.

With the loss of the slalom by a 2.4 point margin came the loss of the combined downhill-slalom, although there was only a difference of two-tenths of a point. Distin won this event, with Glover placing tenth and Epply fifteenth, against the No. 4, 7, and 9 spots won by the Wildcats.

In the jumping it was again Merrill, Dunklee, and Keough taking the fifth, sixth, and seventh positions to win the event for New Hampshire, despite Distin's second. Bull was eighth and Bradley 12th, but, again, the UNH margin in the second event gave them the team victory in the classic combined of jumping and crosscountry. Distin was the winner of the event, with Bull and Ashley placing sixth and seventh, but once more it was Merrill, Dunklee, and Keough between Distin and the other Dartmouth men.

Behind the two leaders Williams was a comfortable third, and the darkhorse Norwich skiers easily took fourth place. Bates had a margin of just under a point over Middlebury for the fifth position, while Harvard topped Maine for seventh place in the eight-team meet.

"Tuss" MCLAUGHRY BECOMES A MAJOR IN THE MARINES Head football coach of the Big Green shown being sworn in by Captain Bradford PerinUSMC on January 16. Major McLaughry is now stationed at Parris Island, S. C., wherehe fills an important post in the organization and administration of physical training.