Big Green Teams

Indians Repeat on Hockey and Basketball Championships; Court Team Again Picked for N.C.A.A. Tournament

EDITOR'S NOTE: John E. Leggat '45,sports editor of The Dartmouth, is guestauthor of the sports section this month,replacing John S. Jenness '44 who has leftCollege to become an Army meteorologist.He is Dartmouth correspondent for theAssociated Press, the United Press, The New York Times, and The Boston Herald, and is a member of Kappa Sigma. Leggat'shome is in Lowell, Mass., and his prepschool is Deerfield.

DARTMOUTH ATHLETICS were in the limelight for the whole winter as the basketball team, the hockey team, and Don Burnham faced top competition and won. Coach Ossie Cowles' quintet won its sixth straight Eastern Intercollegiate League title in a walkaway with a record of 11 wins and one loss. For the second year in a row a Riley-Rondeau-Harrison line paced the Indian sextet to a Pentagonal League championship, and it also was the major factor as the hockey team extended its two-year streak to 34 games without a loss, although a 4-4 tie with Harvard broke up the victory string.

Racing with big-time milers in meets at Boston and New York, Burnham, a Phi Beta Kappa med student, consistently finished among the first three and in the IC-4A meet at New York he pulled off the biggest victory of the day when he beat out Frank Dixon of New York University, the National A.A.U. mile champion.

For the third straight year the Dartmouth basketball team has been named to represent New England in the N.C.A.A. tournament which is to be played at New York on March 24 and 25. The draw has just been made, and the Indian courtmen play DePaul University of Chicago in the first round, while N.Y.U. faces Georgetown. The varsity quintet won 12 straight games in competition against Eastern teams after losing to Princeton on January 30, with only two of those being against non-league courtmen, Brown and Army.

With an EIL record which stood at 6 wins and one loss, the Indians took time out to roll over Army, 60-46, at West Point. Bob Myers with 22 points was the high scorer while Jim Olsen and Stan Skaug were close behind, as the two teams ran up a combined total which beat the previous record for the Cadets' Field House.

Two days later on the Hanover floor Columbia was overpowered, just after the Green had taken over first place in the league when Cornell upset Penn. Myers and Olsen scored 15 points each in this game, with the former regaining his individual leadership in the league when Walt Budko, Lion center, was held to 9 points. George Munroe, forward who injured his foot early in the season and who had lost his shooting eye, regained it for this game as he added 13 points to the Dartmouth total.

On February 27 the Indians travelled to Philadelphia for the crucial first game with Pennsylvania and came away with a 66-43 w'n and whole-hearted support of Philadelphia fans in their quest for national honors. On the following Tuesday, a column appeared in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, which started, "If Dartmouth men are popping top buttons off their vests these days, there's a good reason for it. Their basketball team is enough to make even the most modest alumnus a bit chesty." With 17 points Bob Myers was once again the high scorer in a rough game in which 34 fouls were called. Aud Brindley, freshman reserve forward, tallied 12 times while Stan Skaug made 11 from his guard post. The loss was Perm's third, and it eliminated her from among the EIL title prospects.

One week later Princeton came to Hanover with a mathematical chance of knocking Dartmouth off its perch but little more than that. In each lineup there was one change from those of the first game, in which the Tigers had upset the Big Green, 44-39. Bill Van Breda Kolff, Nassau guard, flunked out of school just after the first encounter, while freshman Jim Coleman had taken Jim Briggs' post at guard for Coach Cowles. As the game started, the Tigers used a very close defense but forgot to account for Coleman, who had scored only 41 points in 9 league contests up to that point. However, the freshman guard had a scoring spree against Princeton as he sparked the team offensively and defensively to a 52-33 win—and the certainty of at least a tie for the title. Coleman had 17 points, most of which were made on long set shots, while Myers, 01 sen, Munroe, and Skaug were held to a relatively low total. Princeton's Bud Palmer was checked somewhat in his rise towards the individual scoring championship, but he held a good lead over Myers after the game.

Dartmouth clinched its sixth Eastern Intercollegiate title in the second Penn game by winning 70-34, and the first half saw the Indians put on the most spectacular scoring drive of the season in Alumni Gym. Better than 55% of the attempted shots were good in that half, with George Munroe making 17 points from all over the court. The whole Quaker team made only 17 points in the first half, while the champions made 46. In the last part of the contest Dartmouth's attack slowed down, but Penn could not speed up, and the Indians had the title.

MILE CHAMPION Don Burnham, Dartmouth's Phi BetaKappa track star, who won the intercollegiate mile title by nosing out Frank Dixonof N.Y.U. at New York on March 6. Burnham's time of 4:10.6 in the mile run of theNew York Athletic Club meet on February20 was recently accepted by the AthleticCouncil as a new College record. He isalso the newly elected secretary-chairmanof the class of 1944.