HOCKEY
The hockey team ended its season in an authentic blaze of glory by decisively defeating Army at West Point by the score of 5-1. This is the 46th consecutive game the team has played over a four year period without a defeat and with only one tie—a record unique in the history of modern Dartmouth sport. Starting the season with largely untried material, Coach "Hafey" Arthur and his boys have hung up a record that will stand for a long time, particularly when combined with the exploits of the teams of Eddie Jeremiah, who started the four-year winning streak. In this somewhat doleful fall and winter sports season, it is indeed an exhilarating experience to write about a Dartmouth team which has been able to carry on in the pre-war tradition.
Scoring for the Army encounter was divided between Warburton and Cunliffe with two goals apiece and Charlie Holt with one. Assists went to the following: Warburton with two, Cunliffe with three, and Charlie Holt with one. This was a rugged and aggressive Army team, which made considerable trouble for the local sextet in the first encounter and which was expected to be even tougher on their own ice. Accordingly, the pleasure of this victory was doubly sweet, since it looked like a toss-up beforehand. After this pleasant beginning, we can continue with a chronological account of the activities of the club since our last recital.
As our efficient system of smoke signals and dog team communication was able to convey to you in a flash inserted after going to press with the last issue, Dartmouth continued its winning ways by overcoming Cornell at Ithaca on January 20 by the pleasantly unequal score of 10-1. This total was engineered largely through the collaboration of two members of the so-called second line—Ralph Warburton and Bruce Cunliffe—who teamed up to produce 9 tallies between them. The former led the way with 5 goals and 2 assists, while his colleague on the second line came through with 4 goals and 2 assists. The first line apparently found that their scoring efforts were not vitally necessary in this encounter and gallantly stepped aside and waved the glory to the boys on the junior varsity. Charlie Holt of the first line put on his usual versatile performance with two assists, while Paul McGuinnes came through with a goal to supplement the efforts of the aforementioned Warburton and Cunliffe.
The two young defensemen, Betts and McAllister, also turned in a sterling performance in this game, while Terry Van Ingen in the nets just missed the pleasure of a complete shutout. The score might very well have been considerably larger, but for the fortuitous occurrence that the last two periods were cut in order to allow the Dartmouth team to catch a bus which would get them out of Ithaca and back to Hanover in less than three or four days. Those of our readers who, in one capacity or another, have even made the trip between Hanover and Ithaca- or vice versaknow that even under the best of circumstances it is a harrowing and debilitating performance. What with the war and the snow this year, it has become almost in a class with the 20-odd miles between Aachen and Cologne. In fact, rather than risk the trip on the return engagement, Cornell called off the game scheduled for Hanover on February 3. Reason: too much snow.
In what proved to be the final home game of the season fox- Dartmouth (following the cancellation of the Cornell game) the Green defeated Yale on January 27 by the score of 4-1. This was one of the most vociferous encounters seen on the local ice in years, with one occasion seeing only eight men (out of twelve, remember?) on the ice and the other four in the penalty box. At this time, Charlie Holt took on the rest of the Yale team (his two wings being in the box) and managed to hold them off practically single-handed, much to the delight of the decidedly partisan crowd. The scoring was done by Bruce Cunliffe, who scored two unassisted goals and one on an assist from Charlie Holt, and Holt himself, who scored on an assist from defenseman Pete Betts. The hockey season was unusually short this year. But it was also unusually sweet.
INDIAN TRACK AND FIELD MEN who, although defeated in two dual meets this winter, nevertheless rated as one of the strongest college track teams in the East and numbered many individual stars. Left to right, front row: Mark Burnham, John Hanley, Bill McCaffrey, Al Snyder, Capt. Bob Grady, Joe Con- ley, Bob Craig, Sam Spaulding, and Bill Fetzer. Back row: Coach Harry Hillman, Manager Ed Scully, Steve Gilman, Pete McGrath, Sam Felton, Bud Gold, Asst. Manager Karl Bungerz.
