Hockey
The hockey picture, on the other hand, offers little hope for the immediate future. The overall record of 7 wins against 14 losses was unimpressive to say the least, but the Pentagonal League score of 1 win against 6 defeats was something that Dartmouth hockey fans would like to forget as quickly as possible. Lack of ice for practice sessions and the illness of some halfdozen top players during the course of the season were certainly factors in the poor showing. The low scoring was split pretty much among ten men and there were few individual standouts during the season. Seaver Peters, the captain-elect who played both center and defense, was one of the few who give some hope for next winter. In the course of the last month the Indian skaters won four and lost six games in their regular schedule and lost one and tied one of their benefit games. Since midFebruary Dartmouth lost to Boston College 4-2, Harvard 5-4 and Middlebury 4-3 before they defeated Brown 9-4 and upset Northeastern 6-2. Then Boston University stopped the Big Green 4-1, while Dartmouth took Army 7-1, was defeated again by B.U. 6-4 and wound up the season defeating Providence 6-2 and losing to Princeton 5-4. A benefit game with Yale in Rye, N. Y., to raise money for the artificial ice system saw the Big Green losing 5-1, while the tussle with the Alumni AllStar aggregation in Hanover, which also was for the artificial ice fund, resulted in a 10-10 deadlock.
The remaining Dartmouth winter teams kept up the pace set earlier in the season during their final month of competition. Karl Michael's swimmers won three dual meets in a row, dunking Pennsylvania 58-26, Brown 52-32 and Columbia 56-28, but then lost to Army in their final dual meet 46-38.
In track, the Big Green runners have been having their ups and downs. In the IC4A meet in New York, none of the Dartmouth men placed, while the best the Big Green could do in the Heptagonals at Cornell was ninth in a field of ten. Mike Morrissey took a fourth in the mile, Bob Jeffery a fifth in the 35-pound weight throw, Gary McKee was in a four-way tie for fourth place in the pole vault, and the two-mile relay team of Tom Tyler, Dick Hogarty, Ted Storrs and Dave McLaughlin finished fifth to account for the Dartmouth points in the Pentagonals. The Indians also notched wins in two dual meets, defeating Boston University 63-45 and Brown 64-39, before they lost to Yale in the season's finale, 67½ to 41½
Coach Red Hoehn's varsity squashers were the first to complete their schedule. After defeating Amherst 6-3 and losing to Williams 9-0 in late February, the Big Green sent their three top men Captain Steve Foster, Bud Addis and Tom Buffington —to the Intercollegiates at West Point early in March. Foster and Addis got through to the quarter-finals before bowing to Bon Dewey of Yale and Dick Squires of Princeton, while Buffington lost to Dave Workman of Yale in the first round.
While the skiing season is not yet officially over, to all intents and purposes the major meets have been completed and this winter was as good a one as Coach Walter Prager might have hoped for. The climax of the season came during the last two weekends with the North American Downhill and Slalom Championships at Stowe, Vt., and the National Downhill and Slahampionships at Aspen, Colo. The Dartmouth skiers got into the act at Stowe early as on Friday in the Giant Slalom, Bill Tibbits flashed through the 54-gate course to win the amateur and open divisions, with Ralph Miller in third place, Brooks Dodge fourth and Tom Corcoran sixth. Saturday's downhill race on the mile and three-quarters Nose Dive Trail was icy and treacherous for the field of entrants that included the best in the world. It was on this trail that 19-year old Ralph Miller, a Dartmouth sophomore, upset the field to finish in first place with a blazing time of 1:57.7- To win this race Miller had to outspeed such greats as Othmar Schneider, Stein Erikson and Christian Pravda, and his triumph was hailed by the ski writers as a remarkable performance for an American competitor. Miller's seventh place in the North American slalom on Sunday gave him a third in the combined, while Toni Spiss and Brooks Dodge took sixth and ninth respectively in the slalom on Sunday to add other laurels to the Dartmouth cause.
On the basis of their showing at Stowe, Miller and Tibbits went on to Aspen for the Nationals the following weekend. Here Miller proved that his victory at Stowe was no fluke as he once again copped first place in the downhill with a time of 2:25 and finished sixth in the slalom to take first place in the National Combined. Bill Tibbits, unfortunately, suffered a leg injury in a practice session and was unable to compete. Miller's showing at Stowe and Aspen virtually clinched a place on the American F.I.S. Team for next winter and made him the top collegi- ate skier in the nation a fitting climax to one of Dartmouth's most brilliant seasons on the slopes. The youthful star is the son of Dr. Ralph E. Miller '24 of Hanover's Hitchcock Clinic.
