Soccer
The only undefeated varsity team to date is Tom Dent's soccer squad. The booters are making a definite bid for the New England league title after finishing second last season, and first the two years previous to that. Wins, all by a margin of at least two goals, have been scored over Massachusetts University, Amherst, Connecticut, and Williams in that order. Four games remain—three at home, and what shapes up as the toughest of the season, Cornell away.
In the opener, Dartmouth had little trouble in disposing of Massachusetts, 7-1. Dent kept the count down by clearing his bench in the last half, and even the reserves were impressive. Egil Stigum, a junior who excels in four events during the ski season, tallied three times, while sophomore Butch Waid did the same. Steve Winslow, another junior, tallied the other marker. Waid impressed the crowd with his ball handling and tricky footwork. He is definitely a candidate for All-American honors, although this is only his first year in varsity competition.
Amherst came up with a fast-charging line that kept the Green defense back on its heels throughout the match. Captain Dave Conlan, center halfback, dropped back to give the Indians a three-man defense in front of the net. Conlan has been the outstanding playmaker on the team this season, and his defensive play in all four games has been excellent. Stigum tallied on two beautiful shots against the Lord Jeffs, Waid scored once, and Carl Hirsch, an All-East wing last season, contributed the other goal, for a 4-2 victory.
In the third game of the season, against Connecticut, at Storrs, the Green had pretty much their own way as Stigum and Waid with two scores each and Hirsch with one led the Dentmen to a 5-1 win.
The fourth game saw the Tribe .down Williams 3-0 the day before the Colgate football game. After a 0-0 first half, Winslow opened the scoring for the Indians with a screen shot from the left side of the Williams cage. In the last period Waid and Stigum scored on uncontested plays to sew up the win, Dartmouth's tenth in a row over a two-season span. The first half was marked by the outstanding play of goalie Clem Malin, who minds the nets for Dent's lacrosse team in the spring also. Malin saved two sure Williams goals with diving stops, one in each of the first two periods.
An interesting feature of the team is the fact that Dent has been using only three seniors this season, Captain Conlan, fullback Dick Roberts, and lineman Mike Travers. In the Williams game the rest of the lineup was composed of four juniors and four sophomores, a good indication that the Dartmouth soccer team will be potent in 1955 also.
TWO DARTMOUTH FOOTBALL IMMORTALS were honored between the halves ofthe Colgate game, when plaques were presented to mark election of the late E. K. Hall'92 and "Swede" Oberlander '26 to the National Football Hall of Fame. L to r: EdwardK. Hall Jr. '34 and Mrs. Laurence G. Leavitt ('25), who accepted their fathers plaque,Mrs. Oberlander and her son David '55, who represented the former Ail-American halfback when his plane was grounded by the hurricane; and Bill Cunningham 'I9, chairman of the honors court, who made the presentations.
HEADING THE NAVY ROOTERS in Hanover was Rear Admiral W. F. Boone, USN,Superintendent of the Naval Academy. Shown with him (I to r) are Captain T. H.Tonseth, USN, Professor of Naval Science at Dartmouth; Mrs. Tonseth; Admiral Boone;Mrs. Boone; and Captain C. B. Brooks Jr., USN, Secretary of the Academic Board at theNaval Academy.
