With Big Green Teams

WINTER SPORTS at Dartmouth were at full swing as this issue of the MAGAZINE went to press, and the next month, January 16 to February 17, will find Dartmouth teams facing the brunt of their winter competition and their most important league games. In basketball the Big Green has a record of nine wins against four defeats, while the hockey team has five wins against eight defeats (with five of the eight losses coming during the Christmas western trip). The swimming team has gone undefeated in four dual meets, the Dartmouth squash team has won two and lost two, while the track team lost to Cornell in their only dual meet of the season thus far. The skiing team has not seen action as a unit, although individually the Dartmouth skiers have been winning honors. The rifle team continues undefeated in their postal and shoulder-to-shoulder matches.

On the general athletic scene Dartmouth's director of athletics Bill McCarter is in Dick's House recovering from pneumonia. Bill was honored by a standing vote of thanks for his work on intercollegiate athletics at the NCAA meeting held earlier this month in Cincinnati. Red Rolfe, who takes over at the athletic helm in July, has purchased a house in Hanover and will be on the scene later this winter to begin learning the ropes. Football coach Tuss McLaughry represented the New England district at the meeting of the Football Rules Committee in Sarasota, Florida, where the committee voted continuation of the one-platoon system. Dartmouth was host to the first annual New England College Basketball Tournament, December 28-30, and the tournament proved an overwhelming success except financially.

Now for a look at team and individual performances during the past month.