Dodge Stars at Middlebury
In the Middlebury Carnival Meet the next weekend Dartmouth wound up with 583.48 points out of a possible 600, while Middlebury was runner-up with 564.08 and New Hampshire took third with 545.68. Despite the fact that he was nosed out in the downhill, Brooks Dodge came back to win the slalom for a first in the combined. Bill Beck and Colin Stewart showed their usual top form, Beck taking third in the combined and Stewart fifth. Charlie Tremblay again paced the Nordic events to increase the Big Green margin.
On wind-buffeted, snow-shrouded Cannon Mountain the Dartmouth skiers went all out the weekend of March 3-4 to annex first place in the annual Hochgebirge Meet. The Dartmouth freshman skiers took second place, with Williams third and New Hampshire fourth. Freshman Tom Corcoran was the standout performer for Dartmouth as he finished third behind the Austrian stars in both the slalom and combined. Bill Beck, Colin Stewart and Fred Barstow finished fifth, sixth and seventh in combined standings. In the slalom Corcoran garnered a third, Stewart fourth, Beck fifth and Fred Barstow eighth. Assisting Corcoran in lifting the freshmen into second place were Phil Cooke, Pete Johnson and Bill Tibbetts.
In between the team meets a number of Dartmouth skiers kept in shape by entering other meets as individuals. In the Lake Placid jump on Feb. 23 Tom Agan and Herb Drury of Dartmouth placed first and second respectively, and in the National Classic Combined Championships, held at Berlin, N.H., Agan again took a first and Phil Cooke garnered a second place, with Drury fourth and Skip Carey fifth.
At Rumford, Maine on March 4, Dartmouth skiers placed well in the competition for Olympic team berths. Charlie Tremblay took second place in the jumping, although his first jump of 173 feet was high for the afternoon. Co-Captain Wes Blake finished tenth in the 11-mile cross-country race, for a seventh spot in the combined Nordic standings. Jim Cooke and Herb Drury of Dartmouth placed tenth and twelfth respectively in the jumping. John Caldwell '50, four-event ace for Dartmouth last winter, who is now a teacher-coach at the Lyndon Institute, took second place in the combined and was the only Dartmouth man to win a berth on the Olympic squad.
In the U.S. Olympic tryouts at Sun Valley, March 10-11, Dartmouth skiers put up a strong showing. In the downhill race held Saturday, March 10, on Mount Baldy, sophomore star Bill Beck finished in fourth place, just six-tenths of a second behind third-place Verne Goodwin of Middlebury. Brooks Dodge garnered the sixth position, with Colin Stewart eighth. On the following day over a 40-gate slalom layout at Ruud Mountain, Brooks Dodge placed fourth, Colin Stewart ninth and Bill Beck tenth.
In the women's events, Sally Neidlinger 21-year-old daughter of Dartmouth's Dean "Pudge" Neidlinger, left a star-studded field far behind as she made a clean sweep of the weekend events by capturing first place in both the downhill and slalom, thus virtually assuring herself of a place on the U.S. Olympic team.
Over in Europe, Dave Lawrence '51 and Andrea Mead, both skiing as members of the United States FIS team, made news by getting married. Both are strong candidates for the 1952 U. S. Olympic team.
BILL BECK, sophomore ski star from Kingston, R. 1., whose strong showing at Sun Valley puts him in the running for the 1952 U. S. Olympic team.
