SWIMMING

The swimming team ended its season on Carnival weekend with a highly gratifying win over Harvard by the score of 48-27, the second time in history the Green riatators have been able to put over such a triumph. The first victory over the Crimson was in 1943 and this second win brought to a conclusion a season which, after a somewhat drab beginning, must have been very pleasant to Coach Karl Michael. Rebounding from its initial defeat by Princeton, the team swept through the rest of the season without a loss, disposing of such stalwarts as McGill and Pennsylvania on the way, in addition to the aforementioned Fair Harvard.

The victory over the Crimson was featured by the goo-yard medley team of Jackson, Urstadt, and Nagengast; by the backstroking of Dan Jackson; and by the fancy diving of Ed Tevald. These performers figured prominently in the prior events of the season, together with Captain Dune Gibson and various other stalwart operatives. The scores of the various meets since our last intelligence were as follows: Dartmouth 48, Pennsylvania 27; Dartmouth 42, Andover 24; Dartmouth 38, Exeter 28; and finally the 48-27 victory over Harvard.

The swimming season bears a startling similarity to the basketball season in terms of the coaching skill which became clearly apparent as the teams got under way. Starting with anything but brilliant prospects and with somewhat less than brilliant early efforts, both teams rounded rapidly into shape under the skillful tutelage of their returning mentors and ended the season in respective blazes of glory—nothing gaudy, but something nevertheless rather special in a quiet way. Coach Michael can look forward to another pleasant season of splashing and body-building next fall, with an extremely agreeable memory of this first postwar experience.