HOCKEY
The Big Green hockey team came back to play their second contest against Yale with fire in their eyes and with dire predictions of what they would do to avenge their earlier defeat at the hands of the Elis. They managed to eke out a hard fought 6-5 decision, but they came a considerable distance from running the opposition off the ice, as they had so fervently hoped. Those who profess to be experts in such matters have suggested that the Dartmouth defense has been a trifle Shaky at times and this was apparently one of those times. Practically without exception, in every game the scoring department has slipped enough markers through the nets to win handily; the only trouble has been that, on a couple of occasions, the opposition has done better.
High scorer for the Green in this revenge contest was Bruce Cunliffe, Canadian speedster and right wing, who turned in two goals and an assist. Captain Charlie Holt, playing one of his last games for Dartmouth after an outstanding wartime record in football and hockey, came through with two goals. Joe Kraatz and Whitey Campbell did the rest of the tallying with one goal apiece, the latter marker breaking the deadlock of 5-5 in the closing minutes of the game. The other outstanding operative for the local boys was freshman Dick Desmond in the nets who, in spite of his comparative lack of high pressure experience, did an excellent job of holding down the rampaging Yale forward wall.
The next week, as everybody expected, the roof fell in. A rugged and talented McGill team came bustling down from the North Country and buried a fighting Dartmouth aggregation by the score of 9-5. The contest was rough and neither side asked nor received quarter; McGill drew ten penalties during the encounter, against five for the Green, which suggests the general tenor of the evening. The visiting Canadians started right off as though they meant business—which they certainly did—by slipping a tally past Goalie Dick Desmond in some 50 seconds. They were never headed for the rest of the evening and at one time in the second period enjoyed a lead of 6-1 over a fighting but outclassed Green aggregation. In the final frame, the combined efforts of Cunliffe and Mather laboriously accounted for two goals, bringing the Green within three points of the visitors. Infuriated by this performance, one of the McGills turned in two solo dashes within 15 seconds of each other to score two goals and wipe out the previous Green advantage. Cunliffe, Mather, Warburton, and Campbell did their best under the circumstances, but this time their best was not quite good enough. A defeat by McGill in this league, however, is no more disgraceful than would be one in a scrimmage between the Dartmouth football team and the prewar Chicago Bears.
Over Carnival weekend, the skaters regaled the visiting lovelies with an exhilarating romp over the Army by the unlikely score of 11-1. This is one sport, apparently, in which the boys from up the Hudson do not terrify the opposition (the same mighbe said this winter for basketball, as evidenced in the events recounted in our last issue). Anyhow, the local performers practically wore a hole in the West Point net and had the defending goalie so exhausted that he could hardly stand up when the lopsided encounter was over. Cunliffe had himself another field day, with four goals and three assists, with Warburton not far behind with four goals and one assist. Mather and Campbell also added to the gayety of nations by slipping in a couple themselves, to the vast delight of the holiday crowd. After the bruising defeat of the preceding week, this was little more than a pleasant exercise in skating and scoring for Eddie Jeremiah's boys.
A couple of nights later, the Green had another scoring spree, when they swamped a visiting group quaintly styled the Boston College Informals by the score of I 1-0. The Boston squad was just that—informal—so much so that they were unable to negotiate any scoring themselves or prevent the Green from doing so. Ralph Warburton continued his terrific scoring by pushing in four more goals, to give himself a total of 8 markers for the two games over the weekend. The other tried and true performers collaborated in the mounting score, which by the end of the evening was so out of hand that it was strictly no contest.
The season was concluded in jaunty style with a weekend trip in which the Green met Harvard and the Brown Collegians on successive evenings. Both forays were eminently successful, with the Harvard encounter with an only partially reconverted Crimson aggregation ending in the tidy score of 14-5 in favor of Dartmouth and the Brown Collegians going down to defeat by the score of 6-1. The Harvard game provided a field day for Bruce Cunliffe, among others, with the Canadian flyer scoring 3 goals to bring his season's total to some large and impressive figure which the writer does not have at his finger tips at the moment. The scoring in the Brown Collegians contest, on the other hand, was more fairly distributed, with Cunliffe, Warburton, Kraatz, and Campbell each scoring one goal and Mather two. So, with the exception of the Yaie debacle, in which Coach Jeremiah's boys opened the season in inauspicious fashion, they had a very good year for themselves. They could hardly be expected to beat McGill. But they did beat everybody else.
BETTER THAN SIX FEET is the height which Captain Joe Conley '47N of the Dartmouth track team is clearing in the high jump as Coach Ellie Noyes looks on approvingly in the east wing of the gym.
THE DARTMOUTH SQUASH TEAM, which closed its season Feb. 16 with a 6-1 victory over Harvard, included, front row (I. to r.): Captain Roy Carruthers '42, Bob Mann '46, Zeke Straw '49, Bill Barrett '44. Back row: Coach Red Hoehn, Frank Hartmann '43, Bill Hirons '44 and Fred Witzel '44. During the past month they also trimmed Williams, 4-3, but lost to Yale, 6-1.
