WINTER SPORTS
With young Colin Stewart '48 of Hanover taking the lead, the Dartmouth ski team took team honors in the annual Sno- Birds Meet at Lake Placid held over the weekend of December 30-31. The Green finished first with a team total of 295.2 out of a possible 300 points, followed by a miscellaneous assortment of colleges, clubs, and high schools. Stewart gained first place in the cross-country event, while Captain Howie Hewitt '46 finished in a first-place tie in the slalom. Sonny Drury '48 contributed an outstanding performance by placing in three events—winning fourth in the cross-country, ninth in the downhill, and twelfth in the slalom. The Dartmouth margin of supremacy would undoubtedly have been further widened but for the all-day rain that washed out the second day of the meet, including the jump, in which specacular form of selfdestruction Colin Stewart is especially proficient.
In an intercollegiate ski meet held at Big Bromley near Manchester, Vermont, on January 14, Dartmouth finished second to Middlebury in the race for team honors. Vernon Lamb, a V-12 boy on the Dartmouth team who hails from Lake Placid, won the slalom, with Sonny Drury taking sixth place and several other Dartmouths trailing farther down the list. The Green was handicapped in this encounter by the absence of several of its top performers, including Colin Stewart, who has been devoting himself to skiing with such zeal that he has neglected to put in the requisite minimum of time on his studies. He has been advised to remedy this deficiency before covering any more distance on skis over the snow or through the air.
Other competition for the Dartmouth skiers this winter includes the Middlebury Carnival, January 20-21; a meet at West Point, January 27-28; and Dartmouth's own Winter Sports Weekend, February 3-4.
DARTMOUTH'S NEW SKI COACHES this season are Ed Blood (left) former star and coach at the University of New Hampshire, and Sel Hannah '35, who once captained the Big Green ski team. Each spends two days a week in Hanover, working with the varsity and giving spare time to Navy and civilian beginners.
