Hockey

Since the last issue of the Alumni Magazine, Coach Eddie Jeremiah's hockey team has had more than its share of bumps. With a game squad comprising seven sophomores and seven juniors, the Big Green skaters could never be considered a topnotch team, and then illness struck. Shortly before the semester recess, Seaver Peters and John Towle came down with attacks of pneumonia. Then Dick Leary had the mumps, and Whitey Hamilton and Dan McCarthy the flu. Consider these losses along with the results of practice layoffs occasioned by the long examination period and a four-day spell without ice and you have some idea of what is causing the slump in Dartmouth hockey fortunes.

Following late January victories over Clarkson (2-1) and Northeastern (3-2), the Big Green skaters dropped four games during the first two weeks of February, losing to Boston College 7-1, Princeton 4-0, Yale 2-0 and Brown 7-3. Coach Jeremiah juggled his lines for each game and upon occasion had defensemen playing at the wing post and centers playing on defense. In the last three games against B.C., Princeton and Yale - the Indians have managed to net exactly two goals.

The leading scorer for Dartmouth is John Titus, first-line wing, who has six goals and six assists for a 12-point total. Sophomore wing Chet Gale and Dick Leary, a center, have 9 points each on five goals and four assists, while the remainder of the scoring is fairly well split among the rest of the squad.

Heading into the home stretch, Coach Jeremiah has finally emerged with a line-up which he hopes will last. On the first line is Seaver Peters at center, Captain Bruce Haertl at left wing and John Titus at right wing. The second line has Whitey Hamilton at center with Chet Gale and John Towle on the wings, while George Snelson, Dan McCarthy and Ed Heydt team up for the third line. Dick Leary will fit into one of these lines as a wing when he recovers from the mumps, with Owen Cote as a spare forward. On defense Irv Sherwood and Dana Hennigar are regulars, with Dave Thielscher, the football end, as a reserve. At goal is either Gordie Russell or Dave Conlan, with Russell having the edge in that department at the moment.

"The only bright spot in my life this year," Jerry told a Boston hockey writers' luncheon recently, "is the news that Dartmouth will have artificial ice next winter." He went on to say quite frankly, "For years I complained that I was tired of artificial players on natural ice and asked for natural players on artificial ice. Now I'm having nightmares about the possibility of having artificial players on artificial ice."

COURT VICTORY OVER YALE: One of the shots that helped the Big Green down the Bulldog five, 61-51, during Carnival weekend is being made in Alumni Gymnasium by Paul Wisdom (31), center.