BASKETBALL
(1) Holy Cross 59, Dartmouth 48: The Crusaders of Holy Cross, one of the best teams in the nation and possibly the leading one in New England, administered their second defeat of the season upon a spirited Dartmouth team. The Indians surprised their highly vocal local following by staying very much in the ball game throughout the first half, trailing only 24-23 at the intermission. In the second half, however, the undeniable class of the invaders told and the Purple began to swish the cords with abandon, said process spelling defeat for the gallant cohorts of the Green. Ed Leede played his usual role of high scorer with 16 points and Andy Carstensen contributed 14 to the total.
The game was marked by the debut of two freshman stalwarts (and we mean just that) who seem destined to give an outstanding account of themselves on the local floor during the next three years. First is Emil Hudak, a broth of a boy from New Jersey, standing approximately 6 feet 2 inches and tipping the beam around 205. Second of the newcomers to the Varsity is Stewie Young, younger brother of Lou Young '41 and Jack Young '47 who is still in College. Stewie performed at guard for Tuss McLaughry last fall and his 200 pounds bouncing lightly about the basketball floor gave a sense of solid satisfaction to the customers.
(2) Columbia 52, Dartmouth 47: For a good part of this game it looked as though the Green might pull one of the upsets of the season by defeating a league-leading Columbia quintet on the Dartmouth court. Such pleasant reveries were finally doomed, however, as a smoothly operating aggregation from Morningside Heights nosed out a fighting Dartmouth team by a scant five points. This was one of the relatively few contests this year when the Green operatives have not been outweighed and especially out-reached; with the exception of their giant center, Walt Budko, the Columbia team was made up of comparatively small men who, however, were deadly on set shots and especially lethal from the foul line. Center Andy Carstensen performed nobly for the Green and led the local scoring attempts with 14 points, as well as holding Columbia's Budko to three field goals.
(3) Dartmouth 57, Harvard 49: This was Ed Leede Night in Alumni Gymnasium. Putting on the greatest scoring exhibition ever (that's right, ever) seen on the local floor, Leede came through against Harvard to score 31 points and break the local mark formerly held by (guess who?) —Gus Broberg. This record-breaking total was scored by coupling 12 field goals and 7 fouls for a combined effort which had the clients on their feet most of the second half, when Leede scored the incredible total of 20 points. When Coach Lampe thoughtfully called him out of the game, with only seconds left to play and the team safely out in front, the modest Ed received one of the greatest ovations your correspondent has ever heard. The tension had been gradually mounting as the crowd sensed that great events were in the air. When the record was broken, there was one explosion. When Leede came out of the game, there was another.
The rest of the contest, it should be pointed out, was played with the constant and active collaboration of four other men in white shirts with Dartmouth on the front. Harvard led throughout most of the first half and came to the breather with a 27-21 margin. The second half was all Dartmouth, however, or rather all Leede. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
(4) Pennsylvania 60, Dartmouth 50: Fresh from their rousing triumph over Harvard, the Indians took to the road, only to fall victim to a Pennsylvania team smarting to avenge an early-season 73-52 loss in Hanover. Ed Leede continued his highscoring antics against the Red and Blue, leading the Dartmouth point-getters with 15 markers. Pennsylvania forged to an early lead in the first half by the score of 36-38 and, with ten minutes to go in the second stanza, the Green drew up to within one point, 47-46, aided principally by Stewie Young's accurate tosses. In the last few minutes, however, Penn put on the pressure and went ahead to win.
(5) Dartmouth 43, Yale 41: It is a pleasant coincidence for Coach Lampe's boys that Yale is still in the League, for they are the only EIL aggregation Dartmouth has been able to beat twice this year. The second defeat was pinned on the Blue on its own court by the narrow margin of two points. This victory was made possible to a considerable extent by the rousing efforts of Captain Chip Coleman, who came back from the doldrums to pace his teammates from the back court with 14 points. Ed Leede cooled off temporarily and managed to count only 7 points, 5 of them from the foul line. Andy Carstensen at center connected for 10 and Emil Hudak for 9, one of the latter's tosses reportedly coming almost from the center of the court. Standout for the game, however, was Captain Coleman, whose set shots pushed the Elis back on their heels and clinched the victory for the Green.
(6) Dartmouth 75, Princeton 53: Dartmouth concluded the local home season in a blaze of glory by burying a somewhat bewildered Princeton team under a flurry of late baskets, thereby winning their fifth out of eleven in League competition and keeping alive their hope of breaking even in the EIL. Ed Leede was again the major offensive star, with 25 big points marked up before he was withdrawn with several minutes to go. Leede scored 10 field goals and 5 fouls to ring up his impressive total and keep him very much in the running for League scoring honors. Andy Carstensen bowed out before the home folks by breaking into double figures for 12 points, with Coleman coming in next with 9 points. Coach Lampe used his entire traveling squad in the waning moments of this encounter, thereby giving his less practiced operatives a chance to show their skill.
(7) Cornell 5/, Dartmouth 37: The Green courtmen wound up their EIL season by losing to second-place Cornell, 5137, at Ithaca on March 15. The loss put Dartmouth in a fourth-place tie with Harvard in the final standings, with 5 wins and 7 losses each. Ed Leede, shooting for the League scoring record, was held to 12 points and finished third behind Columbia's Walt Budko with 191 and Yale's Tony Lavelli with 188. Even so, Leede's season total of 184 was good enough to better the old record of 180 points set by Gus Broberg back in 1940.
Cornell led throughout the contest and had a half-time margin of 27-18. Dartmouth pulled up to 32-24 after five minutes of the second period, but the Big Red started pouring it on at that point and ran away with the ball game. Captain Chip Coleman divided Green scoring honors with Leede by ringing up 12 points also. And thus ended the long 1946-47 campaign which saw Coach Lampe's boys win 10 and lose 15 games.
TAKING THEM OVER THE HURDLES, Coach Elly Noyes '32, right, watches two of his charges. Bill Spoor '46, left, and Bill Kimball '47 practise their specialty on the indoor track in the Alumni Gymnasium.
