Soccer

It's a little difficult to see how the Dartmouth soccer team under Coach Tom Dent (now in his 31st season) could do much better. Last year the Indian booters won eight and lost one (Amherst), while winning all three Ivy League games (and the unofficial Ivy League championship). Matter of fact, Dartmouth scored eight goals against the Ivy teams and did not allow a single tally to get by them. However, the one loss to Amherst was sufficient to knock Dartmouth out of first place in the New England Intercollegiate Soccer League and allow Springfield to win. This year Coach Tom Dent says grimly, "We're going out after both the New England and the Ivy championships."

Coach Dent's hopes have a solid foundation. The Indians have nine lettermen returning, plus reserves and some very promising sophomores. The lettermen include Captain Dave Conlan, a center halfback; fullbacks Dick Roberts and Tom Healy; halfbacks Wally Pugh and Dick Wilson; with Egil Stigum, Mike Travers and Carl Hirsch on the attack line and Malin at goal.

In addition to these lettermen, there is a goodly supply of talented sophomores moving up. Steve Winslow, a forward, is a capable reserve. Much is expected from sophomore Buck Waid, an inside forward, and Ted Parkhurst, a likely looking goal tender. Other sophomore candidates include Ron Chilcote, Rollie Pollard, Bob Googins, Gene Perle, Cal Perry, Bob Vostal, Phil Lippincott, Bob Holland, Fred Kuhn, Dick Handy, Sam Robb, Jim Taylor and Dick Wilson.

Coach Dent, who was troubled to some extent last fall by a weak halfback squad, feels the team will be stronger at this spot in 1954. Conlan, Roberts and Stigum, along with Hirch and Waid, are expected to be the bulwarks of the attack and midfield sections, with Roberts and Healy both highly rated on defense.

The opposition, as usual, will be no pushover. Harvard, Amherst, Connecticut and Cornell all are reputed to have strong teams, but Coach Dent feels that if his sophomores can develop as he hopes, Dartmouth will have a good chance this fall for both the New England and Ivy soccer titles.

A NEW LOOK was given to Memorial Field this summer when the familiar black ironfence and brick columns were removed from the north and east boundaries and thearea was left wide open except for the new Cyclone fence enclosing the football field. Anew section of steel-supported stands was erected on the east side of the gridiron.