HOCKEY
To the surprise of practically nobody, Dartmouth won another Ivy (Pentagonal) League hockey championship this year. The happy regularity of this event, however, should not obscure the heroic efforts of Coach Jeremiah and his charges through a long and grueling season. In spite of the fact that Dartmouth has won the title six out of the eight years Jeremiah has been at the helm (and continuously since 1942), the other teams don't roll over and play dead when the Green appears on the ice. Quite the contrary.
As we write, the team still has not hung up its sticks and skates for the season. The play-off for the North American Championship with Toronto is still to come, after which the Green will entrain for Colorado Springs, where they will meet the four best teams in the United States for the NCAA crown. We will bring you up to date on these matters in our next bulletin, which will thereby have the somewhat bizarre combination of baseball and hockey.
The season as a whole (the regular season, that is) was marked by the amazing total of 20 wins and only one loss. The latter was sustained at the hands of Boston College (4-3) during an unaccountable lapse on the part of the Green. With that exception, Coach Jeremiah's boys have rolled over all opposition and have skated some of the best teams in the country practically off the ice.
The personnel of this year's aggregation has been outlined several times and has shifted slightly from game to game, based upon such exigencies as sickness, injury, and absence at the Olympic Games. The end of the season saw a first line of Captain Bill Riley, Brother Joe Riley, and Bob Merriam, followed by an all-sophomore line consisting of Crowley, Malone, and Oss. A third line has numbered among its operatives such stalwarts as Richmond (who played on the first line part of the season), Kerivan. Taylor, Amirault, and Warner. Defensive chores have been shared by Pulliam (now graduated) Campbell, Thayer, Kilmartin, and Bob Gray, while the nets have been ably guarded by Desmond. A hasty glance at this roster elicits the information that the following men will be back next year for all or part of the season: Bill and Joe Riley, Crowley, Malone, Oss, Richmond, Kerivan, Taylor, Warner, Thayer, Gray, and Desmond. Which is a comfortable little nucleus.
As noted above, space doss not permit a recapitulation of the many stirring victories since our last communication. A word, however, is in order concerning the freshman team which ran up an impressive record this winter and whose members will have the formidable task of breaking into the above lineup next year. The first line of the Little Green has consisted of Captain Cliff Harrison (brother of Bill Harrison of the Rondeau-Riley-Harrison line); Mike Choukas (son of Professor Michael E. Choukas '27); and Bill Dow (whose antecedents are unknown to the writer). There are a couple more lines wearing 1951 numerals, but the men noted will certainly be seen on the local ice for the next few years. At defense, Pete Stein, Wally Bush, and Chuck Sherman are the leading operatives, and goalie Smitty Smith performed ably in the seven victories rung up by the freshmen.
UNDEFEATED FRESHMAN SWIMMERS: Numeral-winners on Coach Karl Michael's crack yearling team, which has created a bevy of pool records this season are, left to right, front row: Doug Simmons, Dick Bennett, Harold Smith, Captain Jock Mclntyre, Blaine Boyden, Frank Burch, Bob Jackson. Second row: Adolph Berger, Bob Bowler, Bob Rugen, Chuck Ryan, Bill Duke, Dick Rogers, Ted Bailey, Don Rownd. Back row: Coach Michael and Manager Charles Fay '49.
