Green Jottings
The Boston Celtics and Rochester Royals played an exhibition basketball game in Dartmouth's Alumni Gymnasium on October 14. Sponsored by the Lebanon Lions Club, the game attracted a great deal of interest and was won by the Celtics.
Biggest chuckle of the fall season came at the press party on the Friday evening before the Navy game. Navy Coach Eddie Erdelatz was being introduced around the room. When he came to John L. Sullivan '21. former-Secretary of the Navy, Erdelatz said, "I'm Eddie Erdelatz, Navy Coach." Said Sullivan, "I'm John Sullivan. Used to be an apprentice seaman in the Navy." Erdelatz passed on but five minutes later was heard asking a writer, "Who is this guy Sullivan that says he was in the Navy?" Later the two got their heads together to review the Navy football schedule. But Dartmouth still won't be playing Navy next fall.
Mt. Washington TV is using the Dartmouth game films and supplementary footage to telecast all Dartmouth games, home and away, every Monday night at 10:30 p.m. The shows to date have been spotty but are improving and other Dartmouth sports may be carried on a similar basis. Station WNAC and other New England Yankee Network affiliates are broadcasting all Dartmouth home games throughout New England, although the World Series prevented their coverage on the Dartmouth-Navy game.
Even though the fall season seems to have just started, the winter sports season is almost here. Coach Karl Michael already has his varsity and freshman teams at work, the basketball team begins workouts on November i and hockey will follow shortly after that.
The Dartmouth frosh football team is just beginning to take shape, with general reports indicating some talented linemen but a distinct lack of any real backfield candidates. The '58 soccer team and crosscountry squads are fairly talented, although not so much as the coaches would like.
Peter S. Marshall '58 of New Canaan, Conn., has been elected captain of the Dartmouth freshman cross-country team. Marshall took first place against Boston University and outran the top frosh runners for Yale and Columbia to place first in that triangular meet.
Managerial appointments for members of the Class of 1957 were announced following the meeting of the Dartmouth College Athletic Council in Hanover on October 15. John H. LaMonte was named to the executive department, James McDowell for basketball, Allen L. Desoff for baseball, John G. Tansey for cross country, Samuel E. Rocray for equipment, James Lothrop for football, Frederick W. Searby for hockey, John H. Farley for lacrosse, Josiah Stevenson for soccer, Lee T. Hirschey for swimming, Martin C. Anderson for squash and tennis, Peter O. Dietz for track, Preston L. Davis for freshman football and John L. Johnson for Jayvee football. The '57 managerial appointees will work with the freshman teams this year, become assistant managers next year and full varsity managers their senior year.
