BASKETBALL
Cornell 38, Dartmouth 35—After reaching perhaps its greatest heights of the season against Penn the Saturday before, the unpredictable Green quintet worried through to a close defeat by Cornell by the slender margin of three points. Neither team was at its best and Cornell (potentially one of the best teams in the League) was only a little more skillful than Dartmouth. Both teams were somewhat unnerved by the officials, who were at all times extremely quick with the whistle. Cornell scored 20 of its 38 points from the foul line, with the Green able to connect only 11 times via this route. Hence, al though we outscored the Big Red from the floor (by 12 goals to 9), we were licked at the foul line. Ed Leede and Aud Brindley carried on gallantly for the Green, with 12 and 13 points, respectively, before Brindley was banished on personal fouls in the second stanza.
Army 55, Dartmouth 44—In spite of the heroic efforts of Aud Brindley, who scored 17 points, the Indians were unable to fight off the powerful attack of the Black Knights and dropped another one at West Point. This was the 10th loss in 11 games for the Green, the only victory since before Christmas being the sensational win over Penn on January 18. Many of the shots by big Aud were made through the center pivot spot, where several of the recent Dartmouth basketball greats have been accustomed to rove. The Green was very much in the ball game up to the final five minutes of play, after suffering a 35-23 deficit after the start of the second half.
Dartmouth 73, Bosto?i University 52 Playing in a non-league encounter, the upand-down Dartmouth five found their eye and swamped Boston University under an avalanche of points. Ed Leede was the high scorer with 20 tallies, Brindley was next with 16, and Carstensen (usually substituting for Brindley) had his best night of the season with 11 points. Captain Chip Coleman produced 10 points from the floor and Paul Campbell scored 9 himself. This game marked the first time that Brindley and Carstensen have been in the game at once, with the latter going in to replace Paul Campbell, who retired with a slight leg injury. The presence of these two tall men gave the Green a tremendous height advantage under the backboards, something they have sadly lacked all season.
Harvard 58, Dartmouth 45—Returning to the courts after the examination interval, Coach Lampe's boys dropped another League encounter to Harvard in the Boston Garden. The boys from Cambridge are usually meat for the Dartmouths on the court, but this time the tables were turned. With Aud Brindley held to a measly 7 points, the defending Ivy League champions never presented a serious and prolonged threat to the Crimson. Leede and Campbell scored 12 and 13 points respectively, while Captain Coleman produced 12 tallies in a losing cause. Harvard was deadly from the floor, with 27 field goals and only 4 points scored from the foul line. The Green managed to amass 11 points on free throws and connected for only 17 field goals. That difference was the ball game.
Dartmouth 53, Yale 50—Before a capacity crowd, the hot-and-cold Dartmouth basketball team provided a satisfactory finale for the first postwar Winter Carnival by nosing out Yale by the slender margin of three points and thereby staying out of the EIL cellar. This contest was extremely close, with no more than a few points separating the teams at any time, and the margin of victory just about indicated the relative ability of the two aggregations. Playing in his final game for Dartmouth, Aud Brindley was the appropriate high scorer for the Green with 18 points, all of them on field goals. When he retired from the game a moment or so before the end, Aud received a tremendous ovation from the crowd, which thus gave its emotional valedictory to one of the greatest players ever to wear the Green on the courts. Also outstanding for Dartmouth was lanky Andy Carstensen, who has finally come into his own after spending most of the season in the doldrums. In the most spectacular single play of the evening, he stole the ball, dribbled solo down the entire length of the floor, and rode roughshod over a Yale defender to score a beautiful lay-up shot. This tally was made when the score was approximately 51-49 and hence was the deciding as well as the gaudiest play of the game.
ANOTHER DARTMOUTH SPORT WAS REVIVED this winter when the speed skating team returned after a war-time lapse. Above, left to right, the Big Green racers pose for a team picture: Steve Johnson '5O, Vail Haak '49, Don Alvarez '47 (ineligible when this was taken), Capt. Bob Hyde '44 and Frank Treadway '5O.
