Skiing

One of the brightest spots in the winter sports scene at Dartmouth is the record of the varsity ski team, both collectively and individually. The Indian skiers swept both the Dartmouth and Williams Winter Carnival ski meets and were favored to capture the Middlebury Carnival Meet. Individually, the Big Green competitors have been turning in some top notch performances.

On January 17 at the Vic Constant downhill race at Stowe, Vt., Dartmouth's Bill Tibbits took a close second to Olympic gold medal winner Othmar Schneider, while Brooks Dodge was fourth and Bill Beck tied for fifth place. A day later Ralph Miller took fourth in the slalom for a second-place combined rating, while Dodge's third place in the slalom earned him the number four spot in the combined.

On January 25 at the Pico-Woodstock Slalom Derby, it was Schneider again as victor, with Brooks Dodge second, Bill Beck fourth and Bill Tibbits eighth. Schneider walked off with top honors once again on February 2 at the 14th annual Gibson Trophy slalom races on Cranmore Mountain. Tibbits took third behind Middlebury's Doug Burden, with Dodge, Beck and Miller making a sweep of fourth through sixth places. Then the team moved into the annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival meet, which is reported separately in this section

On the Sunday immediately following the Carnival meet, Dartmouth freshman Toni Spiss captured the Fisk Trophy slalom race at Woodstock with Brooks Dodge second, another Dartmouth frosh sensation Egil Stigum from Norway in third place, and Bill Tibbits sixth. On the same date Dartmouth sophomore Peter Kirby captured the Laurentian zone downhill skiing championships and the Totem Trophy in a lighting fast race on Mount Baldy in Ste. Marguerite, Quebec.

On the weekend of Feb. 13-14, the Big Green skiers repeated their Dartmouth Carnival triumph by capturing the Williams Winter Carnival four-event meet with 593.3 points to Middlebury's 586.2. Ralph Miller once again took the skimeister crown with a first place in the downhill, a fourth in the slalom, a sixth in the crosscountry and a first in the jump. Dartmouth's Tom Corcoran took second in the downhill, Bill Tibbits fourth and Brooks Dodge fifth. In the slalom, the Big Green made a clean sweep of the top four places with Dodge, Tibbits, Corcoran and Miller finishing in that order. The Indians lost points in the cross-country event with Ralph Miller taking sixth place and Wally Ashnault seventh, but made up for it in the jumping with Miller leaping 79 feet against head winds to take first place and Jake Stewart annexing second place for Dartmouth.