HOCKEY
Never one to forget a promise, this column volunteered to bring you up to date on the activities of the hockey team, even if it took all summer. Here it is May and we submit a brief resume of the post-season derring-do of Coach Jeremiah's charges, after finishing their regular season in a blaze of glory.
On March 15, the team journeyed to the Boston Arena to play Toronto for the Intercollegiate Championship, thus meeting the same aggregation which they battled to a tie a year ago. This time the Canadians were too strong for the Green, and Dartmouth succumbed by the topheavy score of 5-0. The power and speed of the boys from North of the Border were too much for Captain Bill Riley's men. The sterling work of defensemen Campbell and Thayer and the brilliant work of Desmond in the net kept the score down. The offensive efforts of the Green, on the other hand, were largely nullified by the skill of the opposition.
The team then embarked by air for Colorado Springs for the NCAA championships. Dartmouth opened against Colorado College and, after a terrific burst of scoring in the final period, emerged victorious by the score of 8-4.. Trailing at the beginning of the final period by the score of 4-3, the Green put on the pressure and scored 5 times in this hectic stanza. The heroics were largely furnished by Joe Riley, who turned in a brilliant performance with a total of 4 goals and an assist for the evening. Brother Bill scored twice plus two assists, and Jim Malone and Walt Crowley completed the scoring with one goal apiece. Arnie Oss and Bobbie Merriam were credited with assists in this epic encounter.
The finals of the NCAA saw Dartmouth tangle with Michigan, the perennial "champions of the west" in practically everything. Michigan won by the score of 8-4, the same count by which the Indians had previously vanquished Colorado. The Wolverines were able to do what nobody else had done this year—namely, tie up the Riley brothers. Captain Bill made only one goal and brother Joe none at all. The Dartmouth scoring was completed by Whitey Campbell, Crowley, and Oss with one tally each. The officiating in this game was bizarre, to say the least, and the Indians suffered heavily from the vagaries of the officials. A questionable goal by Michigan was first disallowed and then allowed, which meant that the Green began the final period with the score tied 4-4, instead of being ahead 4-3 as they had supposed when they left the ice. Defenseman Mike Thayer reported one of the most whimsical statements ever recorded for an official. In response to a query by Thayer, the official remarked that he was "not calling them by the book (but) I'm just trying to make it an even game." In a masterpiece of understatement, Coach Jeremiah characterized this contest as "the most unusual exhibition of officiating I've ever seen."
DARTMOUTH CREW AT ROLLINS: From front to rear, Ben Maeck '50, Ralph DeFonce '47, Dick Ellis '51, Andy Timmerman '51, Captain Otto Schumacher '49, George Otto '49, John Lewis '51, Jack Helsell '46 and John Gannon '51,, coxswain. One of several northern college crews invited to Winter Park, Fla., for an April practice meet, the Green outdistanced American International but lost to the host college.
