Tesreau's Teams

DARTMOUTH'S BASEBALL MENTOR RECALLS TWENTY-FIVE SEASONS

IN 1919, after World War I, Jeff Tesreau coached his first Dartmouth baseball team, described by him as "a fair team, good fielders but no pitchers." Since then he has coached 25 consecutive seasons of Dartmouth baseball down through the 1943 spring schedule which found the Indians winning once, losing five times, and having four games cancelled. This team was also a "fair team, good fielders, but no pitchers," for at the time of this writing they stand first in fielding in the Eastern Intercollegiate League and last in both the league standings and in hitting.

Probably Tesreau's most famous protege is Red Rolfe '31, who played with the Yankees for a number of years after graduation, up until this season when he took a coaching job at Yale, which closely follows Tesreau's career. Before the Dartmouth mentor came to Hanover, he spent nine years with the New York Giants, in the era when that team was considered a strong pennant contender every year. Rolfe is the only Dartmouth graduate of the past 25 years to stick in the majors for a long period, but a number of Big Green stars have gone up for a brief spell and then have played a long time on minor league clubs. At present Hal (Chief) Wonson '38, one of the several pitchers whom Jeff remembers as being outstanding, is on the Minneapolis Millers, and last year he compiled a very creditable record.