TRACK
After so many years when he had runners but no throwers, or vice versa, Coach Ellie Noyes at last seems to have come up with both at once. This should be a big year in track at Dartmouth, with an aggregation which Coach Noyes calls "one of the great track teams in Dartmouth history." As we write, the abbreviated indoor season has not yet begun, except for individual participation in the winter relays. On February 24, however, the Dartmouth season officially gets under way, with the 1C4A meet in New York, followed by the Heptagonals on March 2. The indoor season is concluded with a dual meet with Yale on March 10 and one with Brown on March 17, both in Hanover. By this time, with the outdoor season following, Coach Noyes should have an even better idea of the potentialities of his squad.
The outstanding performers this year are all, with one or two striking exceptions, members of the junior class. Under ordinary circumstances, this would mean another year after this one. But these are not ordinary circumstances. In the class of 1952, the following four men have already shown exceptional promise: Pete McCreary is the best hurdler to wear the green since Jack Donavan graduated in 1938, and indeed deserves to rank with the best in the long line of Dartmouth timber-toppers. His team-mate, Jim Myers, is almost as good and between them these events, from 45 yards to 220 yards, should be well taken care of. Nels Ehinger is a high jumper who consistently goes well over 6 feet, and Ben Lawwill is a 13 foot pole-vaulter. Any one of this quartet is a possible point winner in practically any competition, no matter how exalted, and together they constitute the nucleus of the juniors on the squad.
Outstanding among the seniors is Captain Dave Krivitsky, whose long stride has paced the Dartmouth middle-distance runners for the past four years. Dave runs the quarter, as well as the other middle distances immediately above and below, and anchors the strong mile-relay team. The other three members of this latter aggrega- tion are Reggie Pierson, Sam Daniell, and the versatile Pete McCreary. Senior John Cook is an experienced sprinter and should continue his good work of the previous years.
In the New York A. C. Games, in Madison Square Garden, Feb. 10, McCreary won the 60-yard hurdles with a 7.4 clocking, defeating a strong field. The Green mile relay team of Pierson, Daniell, McCreary and Krivitsky won over Colgate, Navy and Brown in the same meet, in the time of 3:24.9. In the New England A.A.U. meet at Providence, three nights earlier, Daniell won the 600-yard run in 1:19.3, and Krivitsky finished fourth in the same event.
Among the sophomores who should pick up a good many points are George Rambour, the giant football tackle, who is learning to harness his 6'5" and 245 pounds to the various heavy objects that are propelled through the air. Tom Kelley is another sophomore who is one of the most promising milers seen in these parts for some time. Dick Calkins is a sophomore sprinter who is also being groomed for some extensive halfback duty on the gridiron next fall and the fall after that if and when. Other talented operatives doubtless will be brought to light among the sophomore group, but this gives you the basis for the reasoned judgment of Coach Noyes that this should be a big year.
