COURT TEAM IN SECOND PLACE

Indoors the Dartmouth teams were having more success. Coach Ossie Cowles' quintet racked up six wins, but a fast, sharpshooting team at Princeton handed the Green a sharp slap to put them behind the eight-ball as far as the EIL title was concerned. Dartmouth's record of six wins and one loss puts the Big Green in second place in the EIL standing, with a Pennsylvania team which did not appear too good at the start of the season on top, undefeated in five Ivy League games.

Holy Cross was the first victim of the Big Green after they returned from the western trip, as Dartmouth celebrated by blowing the top off the previous Alumni Gym scoring records, throwing 79 points through the cords. The Crusaders were a poor second with 37 points. This made the second time in two years the Indians had lifted the scoring lid, raising it from 75 to 76 last winter when they trounced Pennsylvania by the highest score recorded in an EIL contest.

Perhaps this win was too much for them, but a Princeton sophomore, Bill Van Breda Kolff, sparked the Tiger to a 44-39 win over the defending champions to bounce Dartmouth off the top of the league standings. Although Princeton has since lost Van Breda Kolff, who apparently failed to stay off probation, the defeat which they handed Dartmouth may prove disastrous in the event that Penn is able to win one of the games with Dartmouth. In that case, if no one else obliges by knocking off the Quakers, Dartmouth will wind up second best for the first time in six years.

Columbia was easier than usual on the Morningside Heights court, succumbing to the Big Green, 66-44, as Bob Myers went on a scoring rampage with 22 points, and Harvard fell later that week, 53-42. The Yale game was easy, 62-30, as Red Rolfe's team was unable to push the Indians, but it was strictly anti-climatic after the Harvard hockey game earlier that evening.

The only thing that pepped up the victory over Brown was the start of a fight in the second half between Bob Myers of the Indians and Captain George Delaney of the Bruins. To the displeasure of the spectators the disturbance, created when Myers fell on a Brown man in an effort to retrieve a free ball, was quickly quelled.

Cornell scared the Dartmouth fans down under their seats at the end of the first half, but the Indians came back at the start of the second half to lengthen their 25-23 margin out into a 47-39 victory to keep them still very much in the running for their sixth consecutive EIL title.

Four nights later the Green five journeyed to Cambridge and defeated Harvard again, 52-38. Bob Myers was Dartmouth's big gun with 17 points.

The hockey team, with Captain Dick Rondeau replacing Coach Eddie Jeremiah when the latter became a Lieutenant (j.g.) in the Navy and was stationed at the Training School at Dartmouth, has done an even better 'job, running its undefeated string to 32 straight, with a second Pentagonal League title in sight.

Rondeau, appointed captain of the sextet after Captain Harry Gerber had been graduated from Dartmouth, was hurt in practice on the day that his election was announced by the DCAC. The injury put him out of action for two weeks, while his mates ran up four tight wins. Lacking Rondeau's driving spark, the Green edged Yale, 4-3, after defeating 5-1, with Bill Riley missing from the first line.

Boston College came to Hanover seeking revenge for the 14-8 drubbing the Indians had handed them in Boston, and for a while it looked as though the Dartmouth winning streak would be smashed at 24 straight. As it was, it took the Big Green and overtime to finally eke out the win, Bill Riley and Bill Harrison combining for the winning goal early in the extra period, making the score, 6-5.

The Princeton Tiger was an easy No. 26 by the score of 4-1, but Yale caused trouble again the following night, when they pushed the sluggish Green before losing 5-4

When Princeton returned to Hanover the following week, Captain Rondeau was out of Dick's House and in uniform for practice and Coach Jeremiah was in the Navy. Although Rondeau did not play against Princeton, he coached from the bench with George Barclay, assistant football coach who was made hockey coach with disciplinarian powers.

For the first since he had been injured, the team played pretty good hockey, but they still were missing Rondeau's passing and stick-handling. Princeton went down, 4-0, as goalie A 1 Barrett hung up his first shutout of the campaign.

Fortunately for Dartmouth, Rondeau was ready to play again when Harvard pulled into town. Still smarting under the 10-8 defeat handed them in Boston, their only loss of the season, and with Captain Johnny Paine and two others playing their last games for the Crimson, the Harvard six wanted to break the Green streak.

Without doubt the first period consisted of the fastest, most spectacular hockey ever seen in the Davis Rink, and the other two periods were just as fast and thrilling. Cap tain-Coach Rondeau celebrated his return by pumping three goals past Goodie Harding, the Harvard goalie, as the Big Green made it 29 in a row by a 7-4 score.

Only the magnificent work of A 1 Barrett in the Dartmouth nets kept the Dartmouth goal clear of hockey pucks, and he was main reason for the Green's wide margin of victory, which completely failed to show the true picture of the fast, hard contest.

Wins over Army, 6-4, Northeastern, 13-8, and Boston University, 14-3, have run the Dartmouth record to 32 consecutive victories since December, 1941.

The swimming team, under the guidance of Fred Worthern, has won two of its last three meets, losing only to Yale and their record-smashing freshman, Allan Ford. Ford, appearing only as a backstroker in his two races at Dartmouth, smashed the old pool record for the 150-yard backstroke and swam the first leg for the medley team which broke the old Spaulding Pool record for that event.

Pennsylvania was completely drowned, 57-18, and Amherst was edged out by the very slim margin of a single point, 38-37, in a non-EIL meet for the third Dartmouth win of the season.

Don Burnham has been doing most of the running for the track team, competing in the Wanamaker Mile and the Hunter Mile. He placed fourth in the first race and then beat out Gil Dodds for third place in the Hunter Mile.

Both the meets scheduled with Bowdoin and Harvard have been cancelled at the request of the visiting teams, which leaves Coach Harry Hillman and his team only the IC-4A meet in New York early in March:

BON VOYAGE, JERRY! Before downing Harvard 7-4 for its 29thstraight victory in two seasons, the Dart-mouth hockey team presented Coach EddieJeremiah '3O, now lieutenant (jg) in theNaval Reserve, with a traveling case. Cap-tain Dick Rondeau, who took over thecoaching duties, is shown making the pres-entation. For the time being, Jeremiahsimply moved up the street to S. S. NewHampshire Hall as a student officer in theNaval Training School at Dartmouth.

GAINS FIRST-TEAM RATING Jim Coleman '46, freshmati guard and for-mer captain of the Asbury Park (N. ]■)High School team, whose play has earnedhim a regular berth on the varsity basket-ball five.