FALL SPORTS
The cross-country team has, in its quiet Way, been having quite a season. Assistant Coach Rodemacher, currently pinch-hitting for Ellie Noyes, has half a dozen runners who have managed to spread-eagle the field so far this fall, winning each of their meets by a handy margin. In the opener, Rensselaer Polytech was overwhelmed by a score of 15-40, with Captain John Hanley, recently off a battleship, coming in first. The next week they ran Tufts into the ground by a score of 19-42, which is just about as badly as you can beat anyone in this form of activity. Coast Guard Academy was then defeated by a decisive margin, with Hanley in the lead again. Finally, the weekend of the Notre Dame game (October 13), the hill-anddalers kept the Dartmouth colors high by running Harvard practically off the course, with Green runners taking the first seven places. In addition to Captain Hanley, the other harriers are Bill Jones, Lou Geer, Warren Hulser, Doug Pitman, Bill McCaffrey, and Ken Coyne. If Harry were here to see them, his eyes would light up in anticipation of some good middle and long distance runners for his next year's track team.
The soccer team has lost three out of four starts to date, winning from Tufts 7-0 and losing to Rensselaer 3-0, to Army 2-1, and to Colgate 2-1. Tommy Dent has been handicapped as usual by the almost complete inexperience of his charges in the exotic forms of sport in which he instructs them. All manner of hopefuls coming to college or into the V-12 program have had experience in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and track; but few of them have heard of lacrosse or soccer in any very intimate sense, let alone participated in a contest. The Army encounter was one of the most bruising affairs seen on the local field in years, with one of the Green's leading performers removed with a broken nose and various other of the local personnel banged and bruised. In view of the lack of experience, Coach Dent has done well to mould his operatives into an aggregation capable of holding the veteran outfits from Colgate and the Army to such low scores.
