Miscellany
Jerry Pepper, a former Fordham quarterback and teammate of Johnny Dell Isola in the days when the popular Dartmouth line coach was a bulwark of the Rams' forward wall, will coach next year's freshman football team. Pepper, for twelve years head coach at Milford School, will live in Hanover only during the football season. He will have as his assistants Ray Truncellito, stellar guard on last year's fine Dartmouth team, and Jim Landrigan, former Holy Cross star who played tackle for Dartmouth in 1943 as a Marine trainee. Landrigan has been with the Baltimore Colts professional team for the past two years but has given up playing to complete his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth Art Young, who, with Meryll Frost, coached the freshmen for the past two years, has been moved up to the varsity staff to fill the vacancy left by Bill Battles' departure. Young is also freshman baseball and basketball coach A one-day football clinic put on by the Dartmouth coaching staff April 16 attracted more than 150 high and prep school coaches from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Connecticut.
Jock Mclntyre, the swimming team's ace sprinter whose activities were covered in this space last month, finished third in the National championships at North Carolina University in the time of 51.2 for 100 yards. This breaks the previous Dartmouth record of 52.1 which Mclntyre set while winning the Eastern intercollegiate championship at Princeton. Frank Bruch, sophomore breaststroke ace, finished fifth in the nationals and second in the Eastern championships, while the medley relay team of Dana Jackson, Bruch and Mclntyre won the Eastern title in 2:59.5.
By now everyone is probably familiar with the gallant showing of Coach Eddie Jeremiah's hockey team in its last- week of play. The Indians whipped Harvard, 7-2, for the Pentagonal League crown, flew to Canada the following day and dropped a heart-breaking 4-3 loss to Montreal, who had what Coach Jeremiah called the best collegiate hockey team he has ever seen. The following day the Indians flew to Colorado Springs and the next day they beat favored Michigan's Canadian-studded outfit, 4-2. Then two days later they lost a bitter 4-3 battle to Bouon College for the National Championship. That made four games in six days against the best "teams in the country after 5500 miles of travel. Captain Dick Desmond, who made the incredible total of 63 saves against Montreal, starred in the nets to an equal degree at Colorado and was selected as the best player in the National tournament. Again, congratulations to Eddie Jeremiah and his gallant band for a wonderful season's work Joe and Bill Riley finished in a deadlock for hockey scoring honors with 78 points apiece. Each thereby set a new national collegiate record, surpassing Dick Rondeau's 77 points set in 1941-42. Joe Riley collected 46 goals and 32 assists, while brother Bill notched 37 goals and 41 assists. Joe's 46 goals are a new record, surpassing Rondeau's 45 while Bill's 41 assists are also a new mark, beating Bill Harrison's 35 assists in 1941-42. The two Rileys and Cliff Harrison, younger brother of Bill, set a new international mark for one line, scoring 208 points. The old record was 191 points held by the Rondeau, Jack Riley (older brother of Bill and Joe) and Bill Harrison line of 1941-42 Walter Crowley of Worcester, Mass., is the new hockey captain. Crowley was high scorer of Jeremiah's potent second line with 28 points.
Emil Hudak, set-shot artist from Bayonne, N. J., was named to lead the 1949-50 basketball team. Emil, who also hurls for the baseball club, drilled 271 points through the hoop this past season to trail only Eddie Leede as the Indian's top scorer.
Another new captain is Stephen J. Pollak, of Highland Park, Ill., who will lead the next year's swimmers. Pollak was one of the team's top 50-yard freestyle sprinters this past winter and a member of the record-smashing 400-yard free-style relay team.
SPRINGTIME FOR CLARENCE: The boss of the DCAC groundsmen, Clarence Je lis, catches a bit of spring sun on the Davis Field House steps before turning to tenn's courts, baseball diamonds and other fields which he has kept in shape for Big Green athletes for a good many years.
