Miscellany
There are a number of items left over from the winter season that should be reported, in the interests of complete journalistic coverage.
Item: Freddy Gieg was elected captain of basketball for the 1952-1953 season. He was the high scorer on this year's team, and consistently threw in 15 to 20 points per game. Like his predecessor, Kent Calhoun, Gieg is a member of Alpha Delta Phi.
Item: Bruce Haertl was elected captain of hockey for, the 1952-1953 season. Noteworthy feature of this election is the fact that Haertl, a wing on this year's team, is currently a sophomore and will captain the team next year as a junior. Like his predecessor, John Grocutt, Haertl is a member of Phi Gamma Delta. These things seem to run in families.
Item: Dartmouth was represented in Bermuda this spring vacation by a rugby team, which played a series of games with fellow Ivy Leaguers and the local teams. The Green did very well indeed and reached the finals of the tournament, only to lose out to Yale by the score of 5-0, as a result of a blocked kick. The team was composed of assorted football players, basketball players, and even a few boys who had played rugby before in England or elsewhere. Included in the aggregation were such familiar operatives as halfback Al Reich, guard Bill McCarthy, fullback and linebacker Burt Dorsett, and basketbal lers Billy Biggs and Kent Calhoun. The star of the series for Dartmouth was Billy Biggs, who did the kicking for the Green, a skill which is considerably more important in rugby than in football.
Item: Charles Luker was elected captain of swimming for the 1952-1953 season. Luker specializes in the distance events and is strictly a product of Coach Michael's expert tutelage, inasmuch as he came to Dartmouth with no previous swimming experience. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta.
Item: Jack Hall, the soccer and baseball player, reached the finals of the Olympic soccer competition, only to be eliminated for membership on this year's United States team. Hall, who is captain-elect of soccer, is perhaps the greatest player in the history of the sport at Dartmouth.
