Track

The outdoor track season consists of two dual meets, chronicled below, plus the Heptagonals and the IC4A to end the season. Hence there is not a great deal of opportunity for Coach Noyes' zealous charges to show their wares, especially in view of the traditional tardiness of the Hanover spring. The week before Green Key, the team journeyed to Cambridge and absorbed a sound beating at the hands of Harvard. The Friday of Green Key, the team met Pennsylvania on Memorial Field in a pouring rain and won handily by the score of 94-46.

Harvard 89, Dartmouth 51. This meet was expected to be much closer than it was. The margin arose partially from the perennial Dartmouth weakness in the field events, which Harvard largely controlled. The Green had the exquisite frustration of breaking a College record and still getting no better than a second, when big George Rambour, the 245-pound football tackle, broke his own record in the discuss with a heave of 145 feet, 6 inches and still had to settle for second place. Likewise, Al Reich uncorked his best heave of the year, slightly over goo feet, in the javelin, only to be nozed out by a couple of feet by a Harvard. In the high jump, Dartmouth's Nels Ehinger went on up over 6 feet, but he too had to be content with second. In the running events, the boys did better. Pete McCreary won. the high and low hurdles, the former in 14.6, which is only 1/5 of a second slower than the erstwhile world record held for many years by Dartmouth's Earl Thomson. McCreary is very possibly the best timbertopper to wear the Green since those happy days of thirty years ago. Sprinter John Cook also won a double, coming home in front in both the 100 and the 220. Sam Daniells won the half-mile with no strain, thereby completing the Dartmouth victories. If the Harvard throwers had not surpassed themselves, the meet would have been considerably closer and might even have turned out more happily for the Green.

Dartmouth 94, Pennsylvania 46. The Friday of Green Key was marked by a steady rain, during which the track meet was the only scheduled athletic event to be run off. Winning 11 out of 15 first places, the Indians splashed through the afternoon and soundly defeated a visiting Pennsylvania squad. Double winners again for the Green were Pete McCreary and John Cook, who took both hurdles and both sprints respectively. In the high hurdles, McCreary ran 14.8, which tied the meet record, and in the low hurdles he also turned in a commendable performance. John Cook ran just fast enough to win in both dashes, with the going rather heavy on the rainy track. Sam Daniell of Dartmouth churned to victory in the half mile and Sam Smiley came in first in the mile. The mile relay team of O'Connor, Daniell, Huck, and Krivitsky won for Dartmouth, thereby concluding the local victories on the track. In the field events, the Green showed' to better advantage than they had against Harvard, with Al Reich winning the javelin, George Rambour the discus, Nels Ehinger tying for first in the high jump, and Al Jackson winning the broad jump. This left Pennsylvania in possession of wins in the quarter mile, the hammer throw, the shot, the two mile, and the pole vault. In several of the field events, notably the javelin and the discus, the Dartmouth operatives did not perform as spectacularly as they did at Harvard, although they won in Hanover and lost in Cambridge.

MOUND ACE: Frank Logan '52, from Topeka, Kansas, heads the Big Green hurling staff this season, but victories have been elusive to date.