Green Jottings

The Dartmouth class of 1957 appears perfectly normal so far as the athletic picture is concerned. Regarding athletic interests, 157 men indicated football as their top choice, followed by basketball (121) skiing (105 for a new high), and baseball, tennis, track, swimming, golf, soccer, rowing, lacrosse, hockey (never so low in interest), sailing, rifle, cross-country and squash. The freshman class seems physically equipped for sports, with the average weight for the class in the 160-170 bracket and with 24 men tipping the scales at over 200 pounds.

Some alumni criticism has been voiced concerning the ill-chosen skit put on by students dressed as Indians during the halftime of the Dartmouth-Holy Cross football game. This performance was seen coast-to-coast on television, but the student pranksters were not from the Dartmouth side of the field. Dartmouth for some years has had a policy of no halftime stunts at football games unless they are part of the Band's planned program.

Four members of the 1903 football team were to be honored guests when Dartmouth met Harvard at the Harvard Sta- dium last month. These men played on the Big Green team that helped Harvard dedi- cate Soldier's Field fifty years ago and incidentally scored the first Dartmouth gridiron victory over the Crimson, 11-0. The 1903 players scheduled to be present were Captain Myron E. Witham '04, Matt Bullock '04, Bill Clough '05 and Walter Lillard '05. The 50th anniversary of the dedication game will be observed with appropriate ceremonies.

Thirteen members of the Class of 1956 have been named to DCAC managerial positions under a new policy of making managerial appointments in the sophomore year. These men were assigned to sports they will manage as seniors, with no frosh sport managers named except in football. Belden Daniels was appointed executive manager. Others are R. Stewart Wood, football; Bernhard E. Borgesen, hockey; Peter Howell, track; William H. Miles, soccer; Kendall G. Bridge, swimming; Warren L. Fellingham, cross country; Donald B. Davidoff, lacrosse; Theodore A. Steinert, tennis and squash; Martin H. Shore, equipment; and Frank P. Strong, freshman football.

The basketball season at Dartmouth had an early start with the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia Warriors tangling in a professional exhibition game at Alumni Gym on October 20 to benefit the Lebanon Lions Club.

The new artificial ice system in Davis Hockey Rink has passed its pressure test and will be ready for organized practice on November 1. It will be formally dedicated at the Dartmouth-Harvard game on December 4.