With Big Green Teams

With less than a month remaining of varsity winter sports at Dartmouth, there seems to be no hope for more than a mediocre record in all sports with the exception of skiing. At this writing the basketball squad has 8 wins and 10 losses, the hockey team has won 5 and lost to, swimming has a g-g record, squash has a 5-won versus 4-lost record, and the track team has won a meet and lost one in dual competition. The ski team, on the other hand, has made a clean sweep of its team and carnival meets thus far, including the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, and many of the team members have distinguished themselves in individual competition.

To say the least, the Big Green teams this winter have been completely unpredictable as to individual contests. The basketball team, for example, defeated Yale 61-51, lost to Harvard 50-46 and then defeated Princeton 60-51 just as if Princeton hadn't out scored Harvard by some 30 points only a short two nights previously. The Big Green hockey team which defeated Clarkson 2-1 and Northeastern 3-2 did not bear any resemblance to the Dartmouth sextet which later was trounced by Boston College 7-1 or by Brown 7-3. Even the track team pulled a surprise when, after losing to Cornell by some 30 points, it bounced back to eke out a 57-51 win over a strong Harvard aggregation. And by fashioning these upsets, the Dartmouth teams were pulling in the crowds who never knew quite what to expect at any given affair. Be that as it may, it was not a very happy state of affairs for the Dartmouth coaches who were adding gray hairs and looking forward with some relief to the end of the season when they could collect their scattered wits and ponder on how to best avoid a similar situation next winter.