Winter Teams
Space limitations will permit only a very cursory look at the Dartmouth winter teams. 'However, with most of the varsity teams opening their schedules in early December it might be well to check the overall outlook in each sport briefly.
In basketball Coach Doggie Julian is never over-optimistic, but he's willing to concede that this year he'll probably have the best team since he's been at Dartmouth. Six lettermen are back from last year including center Dick Fairley and forwards Carl Givens and Tom Strauss, along with Captain Glenn Wilson, Larry Freier and Tobey Julian, all guards. However, the Dartmouth team will pick up most of its strength this winter from the sophomore ranks. Forwards Tom Donahue and Ron Judson along with center Jim Francis look like sure varsity bets, while guards Irv Markman and Barry Tischler are rated as good prospects. These men along with some reserves and other sophomores will provide Julian with a strong nucleus for the team. There's good height on the team, and there should be better shooting this year and possibly a better defense. All in all, Dartmouth could well be the dark horse in the League this winter.
Probably the best winter team, as in the past few years, will be the Big Green swimming team under Coach Karl Michael. Mike's team last year had a 9-2 record in dual competition and finished sixth in the NCAA championships. Dartmouth's losses came in the Harvard and Yale meets and this winter Mike admits the Big Green might stop Harvard, although Yale is still the perennial favorite. Mike's optimism is well founded. The Indians have AllAmerican Captain John Glover in the 50, 100 and 220-yard events as well as the individual medley, and another All-American veteran, Duke Hust, in the 440-yard freestyle. Glover and Hust also team up on the Dartmouth relay team. Freestylers Creighton Hart and Dick Karslake along with divers Tom Creamer and Jim Venman with John Hodgson in the breaststroke and Phil Pendleton in the backstroke are the other returning lettermen. Sophomores Dave Cook, O'Niel Sween and Skip Clark will help in the backstroke and breaststroke events, while there is a good nucleus of reserves. Maybe this is the year that Dartmouth will take Yale.
As for hockey, Coach Eddie Jeremiah is a man who likes to speak for himself so here's how Jerry estimates his 1955 team:
"As many of you know, we lost, by graduation, our high-scoring first line of McCarthy - Peters - Titus plus Leary, Haertl, Towle and veteran defenseman, Sherwood. In addition, the "bald eagle" snatched goalie, Phil Hinkle '56 and the promising defenseman, Dave Perry Jr. '56 - son of Dave Perry '24 who also played defense for Dartmouth." "Uncle Sam, in a spirit of reciprocity, returned the following three hockey men to Dartmouth: Tom Booth '54, a 200-pound defenseman; Jack Donahue '54, a forward; and Bob Marchant '55 who can play either forward or defense."
"Only six lettermen are returning and rumor hath it that two of these lettermen are not coming out for hockey this year. Consequently, the team will be made up mostly of sophomores who are of average ability which means that this year's varsity will have no supermen. If we go places at all, it will be done only by smart, organized team work. Yet, this team has a 'surprise' makeup. I can't predict that they will be good nor can I predict that they will be bad. I do know that some of last year's freshmen showed promise of development and improvement. How fast or how far they mature this season is very difficult to predict. Only time and experience will provide the answer and therein lies the secret to the 'surprising' success they may attain."
"The team will be led by Captain Red Hennigar who, I predict, will have his best year and will be one of the most improved players in the east. The goalie candidates are Russell, Conlan, Scully and King. The defense candidates are Goggin, Snelson, Hamson, Oakes and Booth. The forward candidates are Capt. Hennigar, Ellis, Gale, Gulick, Heydt, MacKenzie, Mansur, Tonneson, Winslow, Bartlett, Creasy, Dodge, Guyer, Mac Donald, Sellman, Sprott, Strong, Waid, Donahue, Krol and Marchant."
The picture so far as the Dartmouth squash and track teams go is pretty much clouded at this time. Neither squash nor track are expected to have strong squads, and a full report on these teams will be furnished next month.
The Dartmouth ski team under Coach Walter Prager has just begun conditioning workouts. The return of several outstanding veterans and the addition of sophomores, including Japan's Chiharu Igaya, bode well for another top year in skiing.
Over-all, then, the winter outlook is quite promising for Dartmouth, especially in basketball, swimming and skiing.
