Soccer

The 1952 Dartmouth soccer team, led by Captain and All-American fullback Jack Hall, won the New England Soccer Championship. Coach Tom Dent, although a trifle reluctant to climb too far out on a limb, sees no reason at the moment why his present team doesn't have a good chance to repeat this triumph.

"The close scores in soccer make it a hard game to predict," says Dent, "but I think we should do as well as last year if the team comes along as it is looking now." Dent's optimism is based pretty much on hard fact. He has a good nucleus of returning lettermen and some half dozen sophomores who should have little trouble stepping up to varsity competition.

The forward wall for the Big Green soccer team will have Captain Bob Drawbaugh at inside left, veteran Bud Addis at inside right, Mike Travers, another letterwinner, at either inside right or inside left, and letterman Ray Woolson at outside left. Of this group Drawbaugh and Addis are seniors, the rest juniors. Bill Contini, a junior, is an outside right, while a sophomore named Carl Hirsch is rated as ail out-standing prospect for the outside left position. Two other sophs — Walt Pugh and Gordon Lend are center forwards with great promise and these together with the lettermen bid fair to give Dent one of the strongest forward lines in the East.

Defensively, the loss of fullback Jack Hall will be felt, but Dent has hopes that Egil Stigum, a Norwegian exchange student, may plug the gap left by Hall. Dick Roberts, a right fullback, and center halfback Dave Conlan are the only veterans returning on defense. Clem Malin, a sophomore, will probably start at goal, while fullbacks Tom Heaiy and Tom Penchoen and halfbacks Toni Spiss and Bob Fitzsimmons are other top defensive candidates.

Schedule-wise, Dartmouth's toughest competition will come from Amherst, Cornell, Williams and Brown. But all things being equal, Tom Dent feels that his charges have a good chance to win them all and to cop the New England soccer championship for the second consecutive year. If they succeed this year, it's hard to see what would stop them in 1954 with only two men leaving the squad.

PICK ME, COACH: Eight quarterback candidates this fall are a multiple, but not unpleasant, problem for Head Coach Tuss McLaughry and Backfield Coach Milt Piepul, shown looking over the group. Left to right, the candidates are Jack Reilly, Ross Ellis, Bill Beagle, John Dell Isola, John Wannamaker, Jim Mitchell, Leo McKenna and Jim Miller. Miller and Ellis are Littermen.