CROSS COUNTRY
There was early practice this fall in cross country and soccer, as well as football. When queried by your inquiring reporter on the background for this step, Coach Ellie Noyes explained that the first meet was scheduled for a week after the opening of college and that the boys couldn't possibly get in shape for this grueling performance unless they started early. This sounded eminently logical to your correspondent who, although he was personally never able to negotiate any distance longer than 220 yards in his life, nevertheless has great respect for those doughty characters who traverse the uphill-and-down-dale course.
For a change, Coach Noyes is faced with the pleasant prospect of a veteran crosscountry aggregation, bolstered by several extremely promising alumni from the 1951 freshmen. Leading the list of seasoned operatives is Captain Stan Waterman, who finished third in the Ivy League intercollegiates (the Nonagonals) last fall and has performed consistently over the grueling distance for the past two years. Lew Geer is another fleet-footed harrier who returns to bolster the squad. Others with some previous intercollegiate experience are Dick McSorley, Don Hall, Dick Best, Jack Elliott, Pierce Udall, Mai Decker, Dick Robie, Jim Hotchkiss, and Bill Pendill.
Outstanding among the sophomore candidates is Dave Krivitsky, captain of the 1951 aggregation and one of the best middle-distance prospects in recent years. The varsity cross-country route may be a bit too long for him, but if he has the necessary stamina he will do much to solve Coach Noyes' problems for the next three years. Other thin-clad prospects from the class of 1951 are Walt Schreiner, Duke Winsor, George Goldthorpe, and Mel Walsh. Those of my readers who remember the Hanover Country Club with pleasure can picture the boys in green and white this fall, chasing each other over the fairways and into the gullies where once they (the readers) chased the small and elusive white pellet.
The first formal venture of the fall ended disastrously for the Green, when Cornell won the opening meet by the score of 20-42. Captain Stan Waterman romped in far ahead of the field to take first place for Dartmouth, but his next teammate was able to finish no better than eighth, with Cornell monopolizing the intervening places. The first Dartmouth man finishing after Waterman was Anderson, grandson of Professor Emeritus Frank Malloy Anderson, one of Dartmouth's most consistent sports enthusiasts over many years. Coach Ellie Noyes was handicapped in his efforts to put a winning team on the field by an injury to his second man, Daniel, who was out with an injured knee. Dave Krivitsky showed up midway through the grueling 4.93 mile course with a stitch in his side which prevented him from finishing. Without these two bad breaks, the story might well have been different.
