Green Jottings

Charles E. Schroeder of Evanston, Ill., was elected captain of the Dartmouth freshman swimming team. Schroeder, a freestyle swimmer, is one of the top competitors on the team and is rated by Coach Michael as a "good varsity prospect."

Charles W. Sprott '57 of Stoneham, Mass., has been elected captain of the current Dartmouth freshman hockey team.

The freshman basketball team has gone undefeated in six games and turned in its best performance against a strong Holy Cross team which it edged 71-66 in four overtime periods. The frosh have scrimmaged the varsity twice and both times the varsity had difficulty winning. The '57 hockey team has had rougher going, having won two games and lost three. The freshman swimmers have a record of only one win in four meets, while the squash and track teams have lost two contests apiece and have yet to win.

The College Rifle Team continues unbeaten in competition, while the Naval Reserve Rifle Team placed third in a nationwide match among Naval ROTC teams on the college level.

A fatal accident to a 12-year-old skier on the slopes of Mad River Glen prompted Bob Monahan, manager of Dartmouth Outing Properties, to voice a plea that ski officials and resort operators get together to establish a standard set of "rules of the road" for skiing. Monahan's plea was quoted widely in the press and may help to bring some semblance of order to a sport which is rapidly threatening to become rougher than football.

Dartmouth ski ace Bill Beck from Kingston, R.I., broke his ankle in Kitzbruehel, Austria, while practicing for the F.I.S. Championship races in Sweden. His replacement on the F.I.S. team is 17-year-old Wallace "Buddy" Werner of Steamboat Springs, Col.

Jack Manchester '33, local Gulf station proprietor, is coaching a local town hockey team known as "The Storm Kings." The Hanover team is composed of townspeople including some recent Dartmouth grads plus Dartmouth students.