With Big green Teams
THESE initial lines are written on the Sunday of Carnival, when the citizens of the North Country are inspecting the melting snow statues and the last of the girls are heading for White River and the afternoon train. In the athletic events of this past weekend, the Green broke even, winning the ski meet and the basketball game and losing the swimming meet and the hockey game. The exploits of the Indians in regaining their Winter Sports championship are chroni- cled by Cliff Jordan elsewhere in this section. In the report that follows immediately below, your correspondent will outline some of the salient points of the other activities.
Before plunging into the play-by-play accounts, however, it might be well to take a brief look at the state of the winter athletic picture to date. All in all, the results have not been outstanding, at least from a won-and-lost standpoint. Coach Doggie Julian's basketball charges have, to be sure, already surpassed their last season's record of three wins against 23 losses. The score for the current season on the boards stands at nine won and 13 lost, which is a very creditable showing indeed, in view of the fact that seven of the losses were amassed during the Christmas trip, played against some of the toughest opposition in the country.
In hockey, Coach Jeremiah's men are still hot and cold, with the emphasis upon the latter. For example, the team played a highly touted Boston College aggregation (perhaps the outstanding team in New England) virtually to a standstill two nights before Carnival and finally lost by the narrowest of margins, 3-2. Then on Saturday of Carnival, the boys succumbed to Yale by the topheavy score of 7-1. In swimming, Coach Karl Michael's boys have won three for five, dropping a heart- breaker at Carnival to Harvard for their second loss of the season. Finally, Coach Red Hoehn's squash team has won only one for four so far this winter against, how- ever, some of the top competition in the East. That is the overall picture. Now for some of the pertinent details.
