HOCKEY

As this column goes to press, the hockey team has been plagued with an unprecedented series of injuries, sickness, and, above all, unseasonable weather. The result of this epic of frustration for Coach Jeremiah's men has been cancellation of 6 out of the first 8 games of the season, the majority because of no ice in the rink but a couple because of an epidemic of intestinal flu which laid most of the boys low (see below). To add to these difficulties, Jim Malone of the second line is out for the season with a back ailment and Arnie Oss and Howie Richmond, two seasoned operatives from last year's team, are currently on probation.

But the weather has played the most consistent havoc with the plans of Coach Jeremiah. The mildest winter (so far) in the memory of man has made it impos- sible (to date) to hold a single practice session on the local ice. What practice the boys have had has been on various small ponds in the neighborhood (at the risk of breaking through), in Boston a couple of times, and in the games they have managed to play. By the time this reaches you, the boys should have had a little ice they could call their own. But so far they haven't.

The Christmas trip, as noted, was marked by flu and frustration. After a few sporadic practice sessions, seized wherever ice could be found, the team gathered after the Christmas festivities in Westchester County to play the St. Nicks at Rye. This amateur aggregation had some old friends on it, with the Merriam brothers, Junie '39 and Bobby '48, figuring prominently in the scoring and Whitey Campbell '46 operating from a defense position. The Green rode roughshod over this all-star aggregation, however, winning by the decisive margin of 7-3.

The team then moved down to Princeton, where they were to engage the crack Colgate sextet. Before the game, several of Coach Jeremiah's operatives had exhibited distressing symptoms of indisposition, which shortly had them curled up in corners waiting for the doctor and unable even to appear on the ice. The show went on, however, with the team decidedly short-handed and with some of the allegedly able-bodied performers showing increasing signs of the intestinal flu which was shortly to lay low practically the entire team. The game with Colgate was lost 6-5, with the Riley brothers scoring 4 out of the 5 Dartmouth goals between them.

The trip was to include contests with the Westchester All-Stars in Rye and a (non-league) game with Princeton at Princeton, but by that time the boys were so far gone they couldn't even get out of bed, much less on the ice. These two games were therefore canceled and the team returned to Hanover thoroughly bedeviled with first one thing and then another. The campus was a sea of mud and there was no ice in the rink, so Coach Jeremiah and his boys started the New Year in anything but happy fashion.

VARSITY CAPTAINS: Leaders of four Green teams active this winter are (top, I. to r.) Ed Leede '48, basketball; John McGean '49, squash; (bottom) Dan Jackson '49, swimming; Lew Dolan '50, wrestling.