Sports

OLYMPIC HOCKEY

March 1948 Francis E. Merrill '26
Sports
OLYMPIC HOCKEY
March 1948 Francis E. Merrill '26

This note will bring you up to date on Dartmouth's participation in the tempestuous fifth winter Olympic Games, which came to a conclusion on February 8 with the United States hockey team in fourth place—behind Canada, Czechoslovakia, and Switzerland, in that order. As we advised you in our last bulletin, the Green was well represented in both aggregations representing the United States, with Mather, Warburton, Cunliffe, Jack Riley, and Priddy on the Amateur Hockey spectation team (which played) and Campbell, Pulliam, and Joe Riley on the "official" Amateur Athletic Union team (which didn't).

The A.H.A. team played a round robin tournament with 9 foreign teams, ending up with a 5 won and 3 lost record. The team lost to Canada, Czechoslovakia, and Switzerland and defeated Sweden, Great Britain, Poland, Austria, and Italy. Some of the American victories were won by strange and wonderful scores, with the boys ringing up total tallies of 20 and 30 points in single games. As a result of these one-sided victories (especially over Italy and Poland) the American team had the highest total of goals scored in the tournament (with 86, as against 80 for the Czechs). But it also had 33 goals scored against it (as against 5 for Canada).

As we predicted in our last column, America started the famed Dartmouth line of Mather, Warburton, and Cunliffe, with Priddy at defense, and Jack Riley as spare wing. The latter came as close as anyone to being the individual American star of the tournament, with what must have been the high scoring mark for the Red, White, and Blue. (Individual scoring totals are not available as we go to press, but a reasonably careful perusal of the game-by-game results suggests this hypothesis.) The only competitive exercise sustained by the Dartmouth trio of Campbell, Pulliam, and Joe Riley of the A.A.U. team was sitting in the stands heartily applauding their erstwhile Dartmouth teammates. Whether in the stands or on the ice, however, Old Greens played a prominent role in Olympic hockey.

GREEN SWIMMERS BOW TO YALE: Although the Blue won handily, 46-29, on Jan. 24, the meet in Spaulding pool produced many close results. Above in the medley relay Dartmouth Captain Jay Urstadt is shown starting the breaststroke as Dana Jackson completes the opening backstroke leg. Charlie Solberg, Green freestyler, is shown waiting for the anchor leg. The Elis won the event.

ALL-TIME DARTMOUTH FOOTBALL TEAM AS PICKED RECENTLY BY THE BOSTON POST