UNDEFEATED HOCKEY SEASON
With Bill Riley, Bill Harrison, and Coach-Captain Dick Rondeau pacing the attack all the way, the hockey team finished its season with a record of 15 wins and one tie and in possession of its second straight Pentagonal League title.
After winning against Northeastern and Boston University, 13-2 and 14-2, the Indians had a big scare against Harvard in a contest which was equally as good as its two predecessors, both of which Dartmouth won. Charley Holt started the scoring for the Big Green in the first period when he bounced the puck off a Harvard defenseman's skate into the goal, but Al Everts evened the score shortly. Rondeau made it 2-1 just before the period ended, and at the start of the second session Bob Mulhern boosted the Green lead to 3-1 when he sank a faceoff.
Bill Harding and Everts scored for the Cambridge team before Rondeau sent the Indians into a third-period lead with a long shot, but near the end of the game John Burton, Everts, and Dick Harding combined with the latter making the tying goal. A 10-minute overtime produced numerous opportunities but no results. Al Barrett and Goodie Harding, the respective goalies, were the stars of the game as they turned aside shots in a fashion which had the crowd gasping.
In a rough finale the Riley-RondeauHarrison line personally accounted for a 6-4 win over Army which clinched the league championship. Harrison had three goals and three assists; Riley had two goals and two assists; and Rondeau made one goal and one assist. The game was featured by penalties and minor fisticuffs with two players being given match penalties one minute before the game ended. Just before this game Goalie A 1 Barrett was taken sick, so Wiley Hitchcock filled in for him after having been inactive all season. Except for three goals by Wally Beukema, Cadet forward, he played an excellent game, the fourth goal being almost a fluke.
With another championship tucked away and with Coach Eddie Jeremiah serving in the Naval Reserve, hockey, like basketball, bowed out at the very peak of a brilliant era. The "Jeremiah regime" at Dartmouth has run since the season of 1937-38, and in those six years Big Green hockey teams have won four league titles, each time without defeat, and have compiled a brilliant record of 30 victories, 3 ties, and 7 losses in the former Quadrangular League and present Pentagonal League races. All the defeats came during the middle two years when Dartmouth's hockey fortunes were at comparatively low ebb. As an over-all record for the six years, the Indians have won 'B7, tied 5, and lost 22, nine of the latter being suffered at the hands of the powerful Canadian sextets from McGill, Toronto and Queens. This winter's record of 14 wins and one tie is the first undefeated season in Dartmouth's history.
The past two seasons are a special chapter in the Dartmouth hockey story. During the Christmas trip of 1941, the Green puckmen divided a pair of games each with Colorado and Illinois, and starting with the second Illinois game no opponent has been able to score a victory over the Indians in the 34 games played since then. Harvard with its 4-4 tie finally ended the Green victory streak at 32 straight but was unable to mar the undefeated record. In fact, Harvard in the past six years has had 14 chances to defeat the Green in hockey and has never succeeded, although tying twice.
In track circles Don Burnham has been running for the team almost every week, either at New York or at Boston. In his first four races he finished second once, third twice, and out of the money in the other, chiefly because it was his first race of the season. In the Baxter Mile in New York he was second behind Gil Dodds who ran a 4:08 mile, with Burnham's time of 4:10.6 setting a new college record. On March 6 Burnham upset Frank Dixon in the IC-4A meet with a 4:16 mile. One week later Dixon was crowned the year's mile king when he won the Columbian event at New York in 4:09.6. Burnham was fourth behind Dodds and Mitchell.
PENTAGONAL LEAGUE HOCKEY TITLE REMAINS IN HANOVER Dartmouth's undefeated 1943 hockey team with the Hobey Baker Trophy which it successfully defended with a league record of seven wins and one tie. The Indians also rantheir two-year streak to 34 consecutive games without defeat. Shown, left to right, are:First Row—Wiley Hitchcock, Snook Hughes, Bill Harrison, Captain Dick Rondeau, BillRiley, Mo Mulhern, Hal Cannon. Second Row-Asst. Manager Carlisle Spencer, CoachGeorge Barclay, Head Coach Eddie Jeremiah, Manager Gus Pratt, Trainer John Bronk.Back Row—Bob Thayer, Charlie Holt, Al Foster, George Pulliam, Dave Pierson, PhilFessenden. Missing are lettermen Al Barrett, Whitey Campbell, and Murray Smart.
