With The Big Green Teams

THE changing sports scene at Dartmouth in mid-November is best reflected in the hustle and bustle of the Davis Field House equipment room. While packing trunks for the football team to take to Princeton, equipment manager Art Thibodeau and assistant "Duke" Duclos were also checking on the uniforms and gear turned in by the varsity and freshman soccer and cross-country squads as well as the jayvee and '58 football teams. They were also readying uniforms for the Dartmouth winter teams, most of whom open their schedules early in December. The basketball team has been at practice since Nov. 2 and the hockey team (thanks to artificial ice) since Nov. g, while the swimming team seems to have been at work during most of the fall. The squash team has been working out informally for sometime, while many of the winter track team members have been competing on the cross-country squad or working out on their own.

The Green Teams section this month will mirror to a certain extent the changing scene in athletics and report first on the fall results to date and then survey briefly the winter prospects.

The Dartmouth teams this fall as a whole did remarkably well and seem to mark a turn for the better. The varsity football team to date has won three games and lost five, and a win over Princeton would give the Indians a 4-5 record, the best since 1949. Unquestionably the top team at Dartmouth was the varsity soccer team which swept through an eight-game schedule undefeated to win the New England Soccer League Championship and unofficial Ivy League title. An underrated cross-country team won three dual meets, lost two, placed second in a triangular meet with Yale and Columbia and finished a surprising fourth in the Heptagonal championships. Varsity team totals: 14 wins, 7 defeats.

Below varsity level, the Dartmouth teams did not fare so well. The jayvee football squad had two wins and one defeat, while the freshman "A" team had three wins and one defeat and the frosh

"B" team had a 2-1 record. The '58 soccer team dropped five games and won only one contest, while the frosh cross-country squad had a 2-1 record in dual competition plus a first in a triangular meet with Yale and Columbia. Combined totals for all Big Green teams this fall show 85 wins against 16 defeats, which isn't bad in any league.

George Keeley, New Haven Register

Fullback Dick Smith (39) goes over for Dartmouth's only touchdown at Yale