BASKETBALL
This issue of your favorite family magazine goes to press the day after Carnival, during which festive occasion a variety of Dartmouth teams performed with mixed success. The hockey team continued its spectacular season by routing Yale 9-4; the basketball team was nosed out by Princeton 60-59; 'he team lost its competition to Middlebury by twotenths of a point: the swimming team was outpointed by Harvard 43-32; and the skating team took second in a triangular meet with Rutgers and St. Michaels. Without the heroics of Coach Jeremiah's charges, this would have been a rather drab athletic weekend for the Green.
The basketball team dropped a heartbreaker to Princeton 60-59 and thereby failed to add to its lone League victory to date, with more than half of the season yet to go. This game was lost by the narrowest of margins, when Princeton capitalized upon two free throws in the closing twenty seconds to win by a single point. The pattern set in the majority of contests this year was followed again by Dartmouthnamely, the scoring was concentrated largely in the two forward positions, with little consistent help from elsewhere.
Paul Campbell led the Green with 17 points from one forward position, with Ed Leede contributing 13 points from the other. No other Dartmouth performer broke into double figures, a lack that has handicapped the Green time after time. With the offensive punch centered almost exclusively in two men, the opposition can watch them heavily and devote correspondingly less attention to the rest of the Dartmouth team. With one more consistent point-getter, this team would have won a number of the close ones they dropped. Despite the experiments of Coach Lampe, that other scorer has not yet been found.
Dartmouth won its initial League encounter of the season in January by edging out a favored Penn quintet on the home floor by the score of 64-60. In this contest, all manner of bizarre events occurred, including a series of technical fouls called against the visiting Red and Blue in the waning seconds of the game. One of the most esoteric penalties was directed against the Penn coach. In high dudgeon at a previous penalty, that worthy picked up the ball and bounced it high in the air, thus incurring the additional wrath of the officials. Scoring honors for Dartmouth were divided between Paul Campbell with 24 points and Ed Leede with si, the rest of the team contributing a meager 15 points between them. The Green was off to a fast start and at one time had a 50-39 bulge on the visitors. Penn came along fast in the closing minutes and once was behind 57-56, with three minutes remaining. The last 30 seconds, with Dartmouth desperately holding on to a slender lead, saw Penn commit no less than 5 fouls, the last one (as outlined above) by the Penn coach. Ten seconds after the final penalty, the game was over.
The other significant home encounter of the pre-examination period occurred when Coach Lampe's men maintained their strong return from the early-season doldrums by soundly defeating a hard-hitting Army team by the comfortable margin of 57-43. The offensive efforts of the West Point aggregation were chiefly marked by the flying tackles, shoulder blocks, brush blocks, and body blocks contributed by three of Coach Earl Blaik's football stalwarts, who were also doubling (not overly successfully) as basketball players. Aside from these rugged tactics, the Army just wasn't in the ball game, as Ed Leede, Paul Campbell, and Wes Field led the scoring for the Green, with 10, 18, and 12 points respectively. Field had one of his best nights from the floor, with four field goals and four free throws to his credit, while big Emil Hudak and Red Rowe contributed 6 points apiece. This game lacked the hysteria of the Penn encounter, for against the Black Knights of the Hudson, Dartmouth had the situation under control at all times.
CAPTAIN CHIP COLEMAN (No. 6) attempts a lay-up shot in the Princeton game at Carnival while Paul Campbell (5) and Adams (4), the Tigers' center, watch intently. George Sellar, Princeton guard, has his back to the camera. The visitors won in the final seconds on two free throws, 60-59.
