Ski Team
The heavy snowfall which has blanketed the Hanover area and the entire North Country since Christmas has given the Big Green skiers plenty of opportunity to demonstrate their talents in both team and individual meets. Despite graduation losses and the loan of Brooks Dodge and Bill Beck to the U.S. Olympic team, Coach Walter Prager's boys have done very well so far and are currently preparing to regain the title at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival meet, February 8-9.
First team meet for the Indians came the latter part of December at Lyndonville, Vt„ where the Big Green nosed out Middlebury 385.6 to 381.4 to capture the individual four-way meet. Dartmouth's Bill Tibbits teamed with Charlie Tremblay to annex first and fifth place respectively in the cross-country race and Tremblay added to his record with a second place in the jumping, while Herb Drury took a fourth for Dartmouth. In the Alpine events, sophomore Tom Corcoran garnered a second place in the slalom, while Tibbits took third.
The aa-year-old Tremblay, Dartmouth's top Nordic competitor, also turned in a brilliant performance at the Franconia Ski Club's cross-country classic, where he finished fourth, and at the Tokle Ski Jump, Bear Mountain, N. Y., where he wound up in sixth place against some of the nation's best jumpers.
The traditional Lebanon Outing ClubDartmouth four-event meet was another hotly contested team meet, with the Big Green barely nosing out the neighboring club 390.7 to 381.2. With Tremblay finishing first in the cross-country and second in the jumping, co-captain Fred Barstow and Tom Corcoran teamed up to sweep the Alpine events. Barstow took first in the downhill and second in the slalom and Corcoran captured second place in the downhill and a first in the slalom. Corcoran, Tibbits and Barstow also performed well in individual meets. At the Orvis Giant Slalom in Manchester, Vt., Corcoran outclassed a field of 75 entries to win top hoTiors, while Tibbits came in third and Barstow fourth.
The Olympic cross-country and classic combined teams, in their only Eastern appearance, headed a field o£ eleven college team entries at the Dartmouth Invitational Cross Country Relay Race and Jump held in Hanover January 11-12. As was expected the Olympics No. 1 team won the cross-country relay race handily, with the No. 2 Olympic team second, and Dartmouth in the runner-up spot. On the Olympic first team were Tom Jacobs, Ted Farwell, John Caldwell '50, former Green ski captain, and Wendy Broomhall. Their second team consisted of John Burton, Paul Wegeman, Bob Pidacks and George Hovland. The Dartmouth team, which took the Ski Club Plaque for its third-place finish, was composed of Wally Ashnault, Skip Cary, Gus Hullman and Charlie Tremblay.
The Sunday afternoon jumping saw 21 Class A and 116 Class B entries winging out over the Dartmouth 40-meter hill in rapid succession. Here the Olympic entries did not fare so well, as Tom Jacobs wound up sixth, Ted Farwell seventh and John Caldwell in thirteenth. First-place honors went to 35-year old Earnest Dion of the Lebanon Outing Club with leaps of 123 and 129 feet, while Ken Fyshe of the Nansen Ski Club who won the event last year, was second with jutnps of 120 and 129 feet. Dartmouth's Charlie Tremblay had the longest leap of the afternoon as he soared 130-feet on his second attempt, but his first jump of 119-feet held him to fifth place in the final standings.
Coach Walter Prager was all smiles as the results came in and felt that the Big Green had turned in some of their best performances this winter. Next up for the Dartmouth team is the gruelling fourevent meet that highlights Dartmouth's 42nd annual Winter Carnival. Team entries to date have been received from Denver University, Harvard, Middlebury, Syracuse, St. Lawrence and the state universities of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Denver will be defending die Carnival title they won last year, and with reports from most of the other colleges indicating some top talent and generally improved squads, the Big Green will have to be in top form to regain the Carnival Meet honors.
DARTMOUTH COMPETITORS in the Invitational Cross-Country Relay and Jump, in Hanover, Jan. 11-12, included (left) Wally Ashnault and Skip bers of the top college team, and (right) Jim Cook, lumper. The meet was featured by the only Eastern appearance of U. S. Olympic skiers those events.
