No. California and Nevada
SOON AFTER President and Mrs. Dickey visited us in late November our Association had plans underway for the Dartmouth hockey and basketball games to be played in Berkeley during the Christmas holidays. A little correspondence with Bill McCarter and the two managers, plus further fine cooperation by the University of California athletic offices and the stage was set.
Hockey— 'Dartmouth Sparkles"—Berkeley Daily Gazette.
Coach Eddie Jeremiah and 14 players, plus the little fella No. ½ Riley, arrived in town fresh from a victory over Michigan. Alumni enjoyed having luncheon with this gang prior to their first game in Berkeley. About 300 Dartmouth men and friends showed up at Iceland to see California go down 11-2 on Friday, December 27, before a filled stadium of 4,000. The following evening was a different story—two goals for the Olympic Club in the first few minutes of play, only to be erased by Dartmouth in the last minute of regular play, resulting in an overtime period of 10 minutes which still left us 2-2.
To quote a local sports editor, "The quiet and gentlemanly Dartmouth boys are a credit to their school, both on and off the ice. They earned favorable comment from all who had contact with them. A good athletic team is the best ambassador a school can have."
Basketball—"Dartmouth Poison to Cal."—San Francisco Chronicle.
On the next weekend California was ready to take the 1946 "Ivy League Champions" and they did (55-46 and 48-35). On Friday and Saturday evenings, January 3 and 4, another few hundred loyal Dartmouth men and friends seated themselves directly back of the press box on the Dartmouth side of the U.C. Gym to compete with the solid block of Cal's rooters across the way. Our team was smaller and so was our rooting section but in proportion, we out-yelled them and before Dave Bender, expert cheer-leader from the Class of 1931, was through performing, as he did at the hockey games, the players and local residents knew that "Dartmouth was in town." Another objective was reached in that the yells were used frequently enough so that the packed house of 7,000 and those at home by radio will surely know how to say Dart—muth in the future. Coach Elmer Lampe and his ten players really did a fine job and gave the West Coast champions plenty to worry about—a younger, lighter team, aggressive to the last gun. Although we did lose the games, they're still talking about the team and saying the same fine things that they said about the hockey team. Both will be welcome here again next year.
Weekly Luncheons:—Weekly luncheons continue as usual—everybody welcome at Johnny's Pearl Oyster House, 442 Pine Street, San Francisco.
