Clean Sweep of Carnival Contests
Putting on a display of athletic strength seldom equaled in Hanover during recent years, Dartmouth swept all sporting events of the Outing Club's 39th Annual Winter Carnival, February 11 and 12. Among the Indians' victims were the McGill and Princeton hockey teams, Harvard's basketball quintet, Navy's swimmers and eight of the best American and Canadian college ski teams.
Highlight of the weekend was the recapture of the Dartmouth Winter Carnival ski meet crown by the most convincing margin since 1937. Coach Prager's charges took team honors in every event except the downhill, which they lost to McGill by three-tenths of a point. In final team standings the Big Green amassed a grand point total of 588.3 compared with Middlebury's 558.9, McGill's 554.3 and New Hampshire's 548.2. Vermont, St. Lawrence, Maine, Harvard, and Toronto trailed in that order.
Skimeister laurels for all events were taken by the Green's Tor Arneberg, while teammate Colin Stewart was runner-up. Arneberg was first in cross country, second in both the slalom and Nordic combined, third in the Alpine combined, sixth in the downhill and seventh in the jump. Stewart was first in the slalom while individual honors in downhill and jumping went to McGill's Jack Griffin and Maine's Bill Cummings respectively.
In the other DOC-sponsored event, Dartmouth won the speed skating races on Occom Pond with St. Michael's and Ithaca College finishing in the second and third spots.
Dartmouth's hockey, basketball and swimming teams then picked up where the skiing and skating teams left off.
Coach Eddie Jeremiah's hockey players scored one of the most notable triumphs in recent years by downing a top-flight McGill University team, 9-6. The triumph, first by a Jeremiah-coached team over McGill in five games since 1937 was Dartmouth's fifth rink victory in a row and its eighth this season. In fact, since the advent of cold weather, the Indians haven't lost a game.
Against the Redmen from Montreal, Dartmouth moved into a 2-1 first period lead 011 a pair of goals by Bill Riley. Dartmouth supporters were jubilant, but feared a typical McGill outburst in the second period. Instead, they marveled as Dartmouth slammed home six goals to take an 8-3 lead. In the final session, McGill did rally, but the Canadians didn't have enough left to make it closer than 9-6, the final score. Bill Riley and brother Joe accounted for three goals apiece, while Cliff Harrison scored twice and Walter Crowley once. Captain Dick Desmond, in the Dartmouth nets, played brilliantly as he stopped several dozen hard McGill shots.
Two days later, the Indians routed Princeton, 12-2, as the Riley brothers added another six goals to their mounting total. Joe scored four, Bill two, and single goals were tallied by Harrison, Al Kerivan, Crowley, Mike Choukas, Mike Thayer and Bob Amirault. Bill Riley's second goal, incidentally, was the 100th tally of his career.
After a two-week layoff for examinations, the basketball team downed Boston University, 55-45, then routed Harvard, 60-35, to the glee of a large Carnival crowd. Ed Leede, who now has scored 297 points this season and 1229 during his brilliant career, scored 16 against B.U. and 17 against Harvard to take high scoring honors in both contests. Emil Hudak hit for double figures in both games, too, while Wes Field and Dick Buckley scored 13 and 12, respectively, in the Harvard contest. The two victories gave the team a 12-6 record for the season with eight games remaining to be played.
Coach Karl Michael's swimmers completed the week's sweep with an easy 52-23 decision over Navy. A feature of the meet, in which Dartmouth finished first in all but two events, was sophomore Jock McIntyre's record-breaking 100-yard freestyle effort. The husky Honolulu star churned through the water of Spaulding Pool in 52.2, breaking the College record of 52.4 set in 1938 by Jay Armstrong. He also snapped the pool mark of 52.6 held by Yale's Howie Johnson since 1941. The triumph was Dartmouth's fourth against a single defeat.
