LACROSSE

The other aggregation that hung up an outstanding record this spring was Tommy Dent's lacrosse team, winning the New England League with even more than their customary ease. The racket wielders were undefeated in League competition, outscoring their opponents by such scores as 21-1 (Yale), 24-0 (Tufts), and 24-1 (Pennsylvania). The latter institution, incidentally, is not in the League, which does not coincide with the Ivy group. So the one-sided defeats of such teams as Penn and Cornell (and the horrendous defeat of the Green by Syracuse 9-8) did not count in the League standings.

A bit of constructive research in the archives discloses the interesting intelligence that Dartmouth has won the League title eight times in the past 14 years, indicating a regional dominance in this exotic sport approached by no other institution. Harvard has won the title a couple of times, ditto Tufts, and Springfield and New Hampshire each finished in front once. But for consistent play, no other school in this part of the country has approached that sponsored by Coach Dent, the genial Squire of School Street.

Playing his last game for Dartmouth in the Cornell encounter, Captain Bob Merriam has established a record few Green athletes can equal in recent history. Reasonably consistent readers of this family column need not be reminded that Bob was captain of soccer and lacrosse this fall and spring respectively, and spent the cold winter months centering Eddie Jeremiah's championship hockey team. Other Green lacrosse stalwarts who delivered their valedictory this year are Bill Scott, Joe Brennan, Audie Knight, and Al Bagni. But Coach Dent has a brilliant group of sophomores (led by the dashing high scorer Hammy Gates) who will be around for two more years to carry the Green to new glories in the ancestral sport of the Indians.

TWO CATCHERS AT THE PLATE: Dartmouth Catcher Rog Frechette scores first Green run against Williams while Eph Catcher Chuck Goodell waits for tardy throw from shortstop. On base fay an error Frechette rounded the circuit on two more Purple misplays. The Green won the non-league Memorial Field tilt, 7-5.