Green Jottings

Louis C. Turner '55 of Whitinsville, Mass., was elected 74th captain of Dartmouth football last month. Turner was the regular right halfback for the Indians this fall and the team's top ground-gainer, carrying the ball 83 times for a net gain of 400 yards. He has won two varsity football letters, having played at safety for the Indians during the 1952 season. Turner is the first Dartmouth backfield man since 1949 to be elected captain. He is vice-president and social service chairman of the Dartmouth Christian Union and is a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Valedictorian at Westboro (Mass.) High School, he has a Phi Beta Kappa average in his pre-engineering studies.

At the same time Richard A. Hogarty '55 of Princeton, N. J., was elected to captain the 1954 cross-country team. He is one of the most consistent distance runners on the Dartmouth team and has won letters in both cross-country and track.

George H. Bixby III '57 of Haverhill, Mass., a 212-pound tackle, was elected captain of the Dartmouth freshman football team. Douglas C. Brew of Ithaca, N. Y., was chosen captain of the '57 cross-country team, and Rowland P. Pollard '57 of Newton Center, Mass., was elected to captain the frosh soccer team.

Although not formally under the aegis of the Dartmouth College Athletic Council, the Dartmouth rifle team has a large membership and a heavy schedule. Most of the team are members of the ROTC units on campus and matches are carried on with the help of Uncle Sam's mail service with a good many college and university rifle teams across the nation. Dartmouth has consistently been noted for its sharp-shooters and in two recent shoulder-to-shoulder matches, they defeated Yale and Princeton. High scorer for Dartmouth in the Princeton contest was Tom Connor '55 with a score of 283, followed by Fred Engelbach '56 and Elliott Hersey '55, both with 281 scores. The team, under the coaching of Sgt. D. A. Fedor, U.S. Marine Corps, is undefeated thus far in the season in the two matches reported above and in seven postal matches, including one league match with Vermont.

Two new opponents have been added to Dartmouth schedules in league competition. Brown University comes into the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League to make that loop complete, while Cornell joins the Eastern Swimming League. Cornell, however, will not be included in the league this winter, but will start in 1955.

Speaking of swimming Dartmouth coach Karl Michael has been appointed to serve on the United States Olympic swimming selection committee. Dartmouth soccer coach Tom Dent is serving in a similar capacity for soccer.

In skiing, the National Collegiate Athletic Association will consider the adoption of a standard set of skiing rules and regulations' for all NCAA member institutions at its meetings in Cincinnati, January 5-9. If adopted, these rules will go a long way towards putting skiing on a more equitable level with other college sports.

Dartmouth will observe its 75th year of football in the fall of 1955. The Dartmouth College Athletic Council is now at work on a special program to honor this jubilee year. Now if the institutions we play that fall will only cooperate. . . .