SWIMMING
(1) Dartmouth 46, Navy 29: The Navy was the next organization after Carnival to fall to the rampaging proteges of Coach Michael, bent upon establishing the best season's record of any Dartmouth swimming team in League history. The Green started the meet by winning the 300-yard medley relay, and also took the 50, 100, 220 and 440 freestyles, as well as the breaststroke. The dive and the 440-yard relay went to Navy, but Dartmouth had already rolled up a sufficiently impressive lead to nullify these two losses.
(2) Dartmouth 40, Harvard 35: The Green swimmers continued their string of victories in the Eastern Intercollegiate League by nosing out a previously undefeated Harvard team by the narrow margin of five points. The meet was not decided until the final race of the evening, when the freestyle relay team of Hartung, Higgins, Plummer, and Thalhimer equalled a Dartmouth record of six years' standing to annex the meet. Other wins for the Green included the 300 medley relay, the 50 and 100 freestyles, the 150 backstroke, and 200 breaststroke. This was another notable triumph in the string of victories notched by Coach Michael's men.
(3) Yale 51, Dartmouth 24: This long string of victories came to an abrupt end against a Yale team which is traditionally the most powerful in these, parts. With this victory, Yale assumed undisputed possession of first place in the EIL, with Dartmouth unchallenged in the runner-up position. This represents the most impressive showing and the highest League ranking ever attained by a Dartmouth swimming team and thereby constitutes a record of which all concerned—Coach Michael and his charges alike—can well be proud. Against the parade of Blue power, the Indians were able to salvage only two first places and two second places. In the breaststroke, Chuck Solberg negotiated the distance in 2:25.7 to better the previous Dartmouth record of 2:26.5 which he had previously held in collaboration with Jay Urstadt. The other Dartmouth victory was in the 440-yard relay, where Higgins, Belfit, Thalhimer, and Hartung came in ahead of their rivals. There was no falling away in the performance of the Indian swimmers. Yale was too good.
(4) Dartmouth 47, Brown 28: In the first of three non-League tilts before the Eastern Championships in New Haven on March 21-22, Dartmouth overcame Brown by a decisive margin, despite the loss of such stalwarts as Captain Marty Anderholm, George Swick, Jack Plummer, Ted Belfit (who was ill) and Ed Tevald (who graduated). High point of this encounter, which saw Dartmouth win five firsts and six seconds, was a new college and pool record in the 300-yard medley relay of 2 minutes 16.1 seconds, negotiated by Henry Dodd, Alan Winslow, and Bill Pettit.
(5) Dartmouth 51, Colgate 26: The Indians annexed their Bth win in 10 starts by an overwhelming margin, winning 7 first places out o£ 9 and smashing three Colgate pool records in the process. These record-breaking efforts were carried out by the medley relay team of Edson, Urstadt, and Thalhimer, by Captain Roland Higgins in the 230-yard freestyle, and by Jay Urstadt in the 200-yard breaststroke.
THE WINNER AND NEW INTERCOLLEGIATE SQUASH CHAMPION, McGili's hete Landry, le.t, accepts congratulations from Dartmouth's Capt. Bill Barrett '44 at the intercollegiates at Hanover last month.
