FALL SPORTS
After winning all their dual meets this fall, the cross-country team journeyed to Van Cortlandt Park for the seventh annual heptagonal championships. Led by their Captain John T. Hanley, the Indians were expected to sweep the meet, or at least win handily. Hanley came through as predicted, winning the grueling race in convincing fashion from Frank Tucker of the Army. The only thing to mar this triumph was that the rest of the Dartmouth squad did not come through as anticipated. Army took the next seven places. The balance of the Hanover aggregation trailed in from 10th place down- ward which, combined with the win of Hanley, was sufficient to give us second place. Only four teams out of the seven eligible participated, with Dartmouth trailing Army and ahead of Cornell and Columbia.
The following week, Hanley repeated his triumph by winning the I.C.4-A hilland-dale encounter in even more handsome fashion. He coasted through to the finish a good 150 yards ahead of Tucker of West Point, who trailed him the week before. The disparity between Hanley and the rest of the Dartmouth aggregation was even more evident this time, however, with the next Green runner managing to do no better than 32nd place. Army won the team match, as they have been winning practically everything else lately, and Dartmouth finished in 6th place behind the Cadets, the Navy, Rhode Island, N.Y.U., and Northeastern in that order. All in all, however, the cross-country season was distinctly on the asset side, with victories in every dual meet, second in the heptagonal, and sixth in the inter- collegiates.
The soccer team ended a disappointing season with a belated victory, this time over the Coast Guard Academy by the score of 6-2. With this victory, the season record stood at two victories, three defeats, and one tie (the latter with Yale, zero to zero). Coach Tommy Dent's hooters managed to beat Tufts and Coast Guard, lost to Army, Colgate, and R.P.I., and battled to the aforementioned scoreless deadlock with Yale. With the handicap which is all too familar to the genial Mr. Dent—namely, utter lack of prior experience of most of his operatives, the season went as well as could be expected.
