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Hockey Team Ties Toronto for International Collegiate Title After Taking Fifth Pentagonal Crown in Seven Years

Athletically speaking, the winter is for all practical purposes over in Hanover. The big news from this sector is that the hockey team is co-holder of the International Intercollegiate Ice Hockey Championship, along with the University of Toronto. The team won the Pentagonal League Championship a few days earlier by decisively defeating Yale in a play-off, 5-2, and then went on to battle mighty Toronto to a 2-2 tie in one overtime period. This international tie marks one of the most exalted positions ever reached by a Dartmouth hockey team, to whom winning the Pentagonal League Championship has become an old story (five times in seven years). The other outstanding record by a Green team this winter is the second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League hung up by Karl Michael's charges. The team was defeated only by Yale in league competition and beat both Harvard and Princeton to finish in the highest league spot ever reached by a Dartmouth swimming team. The basketball team alternated between displays of individual and team brilliance and occasions on which this brilliance was not conspicuous to finish in a fourth-place tie with Harvard. The track team dropped a couple of close dual meets to Cornell and Yale, while the squash team ended with a record of 5 wins and 4 losses.