With Big Green Teams

DESPITE the antics of New Hampshire weather which went from torrential downpours in April to snow in May, the Big Green varsity spring teams managed to squeeze in most of their scheduled contests and at this writing there is just one full week of sports ahead. There have been few surprises on the Dartmouth sports front this spring, with all the teams disporting themselves just about as expected. In regular competition (not counting results of spring trips) the Big Green baseball club has won seven and lost four, the tennis team has only one victory against six defeats, the lacrosse team has a 4-2 record, the golf squad has won six matches in a row, and the spring track aggregation has one victory in three dual meets. The overall record thus stands at 19 wins against 14 defeats, which is a respectable enough showing considering all factors.

But spring sports have not occupied the entire stage. Ernie Roberts, a sports writer for The Boston Globe reported on May 7 that the Dartmouth-Holy Cross football game next Sept. 26 would be televised coast-to-coast under the NCAA television plan and that in order to accomplish this the game would have to be shifted from Hanover to some location in the vicinity of Boston. Dartmouth athletic officials were reluctant to comment on the story until formal negotiations were completed, but from all appearances it does seem as though Dartmouth alumni would get a chance to watch the Big Green and the Crusaders from their living room chairs.

Another item, this time in the N.Y. Herald Tribune, reported that the Dartmouth basketball team would not make a Christmas road trip next winter, but would be one of the teams participating in a roundrobin tournament at Dartmouth on December 28-30. Other teams already signed up are Harvard, Brown, Colby, Amherst, Springfield, and Connecticut.

Meanwhile most of the Dartmouth coaches were having a busy time comparing their "hopeful" lists with the official acceptances and scholarship winners announced by the Admission and Financial Aid Offices. They were also waiting with bated breath for formal acceptances to come back to the College from these prospective athletes, for these members of the Class of 1957 will be the fellows who will determine the fate of Dartmouth teams two, three and four years from now. While none of the coaches is commenting, they appear more optimistic to this observer than they have for the past three years.

But to return to the spring scene and to a run-down of the sports action during the last month.